Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

You probably will need to crop the image a little to remove the empty, blank

areas in the corners.

4. Click the Crop tool (see Figure 9.13). Click and drag from one corner to the
   other to select the entire image. A bounding box will appear around the image.

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FIGURE 9.13

The Crop tool

as it appears in

Photoshop

Elements.

5. Press down and hold the Shift key, then click a corner of the bounding box
   and drag with your mouse (see Figure 9.14). Adjust each edge until the
   empty, blank areas aren’t visible.


6. Commit to the change by clicking the check mark icon in the toolbar.

FIGURE 9.14

Using the Crop

tool to remove

blank, empty

areas caused by

the Rotate com-

mand.

Unlimited Transformations in Elements

Photoshop and Photoshop Elements include the Free Transform tool, which enables

you to scale, add or remove perspective, rotate, and distort an image. You can access

the Free Transform command by choosing Edit, Free Transform or Image, Transform,

Free Transform.