Adobe ADBCD17648MC Manuel D’Utilisation

USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 8
Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos

The Cookie Cutter tool crops a photo into a shape that you choose. After you drag the shape in your photo, you can 
move and resize the bounding box until you have just the area you want.

Select the Cookie Cutter tool 

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Click the Shapes menu in the options bar to view a library of shapes from which to choose. To view other libraries, 
click the triangle on the right side of the currently open library and choose a new library from the list that appears. 

Double-click a shape to select it.

Set Shape Options:

Draws the shape to any size or dimension. 

Keeps the height and width of the cropped shape in proportion. 

Crops the photo to the exact size of the shape you chose. 

Specifies the exact measurements of the finished shape. 

Draws the shape from the center. 

Enter a value for Feather to soften the edges of the finished shape. 

Drag within the image to create the shape boundary and move it to the desired location in the image.

Click the Commit button

 

, or press Enter to finish the cropping. If you want to cancel the cropping operation, 

click the Cancel button

 

 or press Esc.

You can add space to one or all sides of an image. Added canvas appears in the currently selected background color on 
the Background layer; in other layers, the added canvas is transparent. In the new canvas space, you can add text or 
resize your photo to fit the space.