Use your Rectangular Marquee tool to define a potential crop region.
Then click on the "Add vector mask" icon at the bottom of the Layers Palette.
Now, if you want to move the mask but keep the underlying image in place, click on the little "chain" icon on the layer to unlink the mask from the image. Click again between the 2 thumbnails in the layer to relink them.
You could also just reduce your canvas size. As long as you don’t have a "Background" layer, the additional image will remain outside the visible canvas area.
‘sup, BLU?
Long time, no parlez!
Got any new or revised manifestos for us?
🙂
Hey Phos,
My first "down time" in over a year. Took a new gig overseeing the creative department for a group of 13 newspapers… been overhauling the department and their processes ever since.
And yes, I do have a couple manifestos swirling around in the back of my head, but nothing I’ve put fingers to keyboard yet.
There is option to "hide" to cropped area but it doesnt help retrieving the previous size of the canvas.
Yes it does; Image > Reveal All
Regards,
Ronald
Reveal All doesn’t restore the cropped area.
In fact, you cannot use the Delete/Hide Radio buttons without having a layer first. Any layer will do. Otherwise, it is grayed out. But Reveal still doesn’t work.
Huh?
No guidance in Help, of course.
Back to the drawing boards
Back from the Drawing Boards.
I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that you convert first to Smart Object.
The bad news is my saved file grew to 3.5X+ the original size just by doing that. From 93Meg to 330M.
Edit: You can do better file size wise by saving a cropped copy along with the original, the sum of the two files will be less than 2X the original size.
Reveal All doesn’t restore the cropped area
?
It definitely does on my computer!
Why else would one use hiding instead of deleting while cropping… Of course this will also produce a larger file because the cropped area is retained…
It does not restore cropped areas (hence the term ‘crop’?), but it will reveal any data outside the canvas, if such are present (which it can be either by moving parts of a layer out there, or if you’ve previously shrunk your canvas).
Without any layers, my delete/hide option is grayed out and of course Reveal All doesn’t respond, although not grayed out.
Haven’t tried a canvas, but why? If I crop a Dupe and save it, the combo is less space than a Smart object file cropped and hidden.