Improve the composition of a photo with a crop

Use the Crop tool to improve composition and resize photographs to specific dimensions and ratios

It's best to get your framing right in-camera, but this is not always possible. You might have missed a distracting object on the edge of the frame, or perhaps a stray tourist has walked in to your scene at the decisive moment. And there are times when it's sensible to leave the framing loose in the knowledge that you'll crop in later, such as when your subject is moving too quickly to get the framing perfect, or if you want to add words or other elements to the image in post-production. Thanks to Photoshop Elements' Crop tool, you can remove distracting objects at the edges of the image or tighten up your framing to improve your composition. Of course, the more you crop into an image, the more you eat…

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