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What is the use of crop tool?
Hi Kanchan,
The crop tool is used to eliminate areas of your image that you don't want, thereby reducing the size of your Photoshop file. for example, if you have a high resolution image of a person you can crop to just have their face and greatly reduce the file size. Make sure you won't ever need the areas cropped off because unlike layer masks, the cropped pixels are gone forever.
Hope this helps,
Glen Demers
Adobe Certified Expert, Photoshop 7
Prepress Technician, Best Printing Online
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Glen Demers
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I am an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop 7 and can answer any questions dealing with images for print; resolution, color correction, color space, sharpening and retouching. I am a prepress technician for Best Printing Online and if you want to know how to prepare your image for offset reproduction, I can help.
Experience
I've been working in the prepress aspect of printing for 25 years and am currently a prepress technician for Best Printing Online
I've worked with Photoshop since 1994 and have used all versions from 3 to CS3. I'm an ACE (Adobe certified expert) in Photoshop 7.0
Education/Credentials
I graduated High School and took 1 year of College level offset printing course. I've attended 2 Photoshop World conferences and taken numerous seminars pertaining to Photoshop and the print industry.
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