using crop tool

[bonniechavez]

trying to crop a person from one picture ,put that person back in the same picture so there will be 3 0f the same person. now this is how i tried to do this .cropped the person click on the green check mark, it cropped the whole picture. ok, so i tried, making a duplicate of the picture,then cropped clicked on the green check mark, now it not only cropped background copy and the back ground. need help, bonnie

[mrod]

Hi Bonnie-

The Crop tool will behave just as you discovered: keep what's inside the box and get rid of everything else, regardless of how many layers you have.

The quick answer (and I hope it's as easy as this) is to use the Rectangle Marquee tool (dotted rectangle in the Tool Box). Its keyboard shortcut is U (shares that with the Elliptical Marquee tool). This will allow you to make a square/rectangle selection around the person. If you press ctrl/command-J on your keyboard, it'll put that selection on a new layer and you can then grab the Move Tool (V) and position it as you wish.

What the marquee tool WON'T do is isolate a person from their background. For that, you'll need to call upon one of the other Selection tools (or possibly eraser tools), which is a discussion for another message, depending on whether or not that's what you need to do.

Mike

[bonniechavez]

thanks again mike , the rectangle marquee tool did the job. its been a while since i tried this i believe i must have used layers. but wow, this is so much faster. again, thank you

[mrod]

No problem. Glad that did the trick!

Mike