How do i crop and layer a picture on photoshop?

Question

I want to crop the picture but not into a square.. it's a different shape so how do i cut it out neatly and then continue to layer it onto another picture?

Answer 1

You should use the masking tool.



1. Just below the two color squares (foreground and background colors) in your tools panel, click the dark camera (dark square with white circle in).



2. Then select the brush tool and paint over what you want to select. It will paint over it in red but don't worry, you can fix that on the next step.



3. Once you've finished painting over what you want to select, click on the lighter camera and the red will vanish.



4. Then press ctrl-shift-i to select just the object you've painted over (your selection).



5. Then go to edit and copy or press ctrl-c.



6. After that, go on to the picture you want to put your selection/object on and go to edit and paste or press ctrl-v.



Your selection will appear in front of your picture. Hope that helps and isn't too complicated lol.

Answer 2

Depending on the method that you use, some of the answers will depend on the version of Photoshop. Other methods are a little more generic and should work on most versions.



It sounds like you don't want to "crop" a picture - you just want to select a certain part and copy it into a new layer in another image?



If you can select the part of the image that you would like to copy over - that's the difficult & time consuming part. If the shape is irregular, you can use any combination of the marquee and wand tools.



Tips:

- If you hold down the space bar while you're using the marquee tool you can move it around to get a more accurate selection.

- If you create an initial selection, you can then go back and clean it up by holding the shift or alt/opt keys to add/subtract from the selection.



Once you have it all selected:

1. Make sure the other image file is open

2. Make sure that you can see at least part of the other image while you're still able to view/work in the image with the selection.

3. Change to the move tool.

4. Drag the selection over into the other image. This will copy that selection over to the new image as a new layer.



You could also just:

1. With your selection made, ctrl+c or Edit > Copy.

2. Switch to the other image.

3. Create a new layer & select it.

4. Edit > Paste or ctrl+v to paste the selection into the new image.

Answer 3

It really depends on what photoshop you have, but if it's CS, CS2, or CS3, select the crop tool and on the tool bar above, there are boxes for you to insert values. just backspace/delete the numbers in both the H and W boxes and you can freely size the rectangular crop.



If you wanted a freestyle crop such as cropping a picture into a star shape, circle, or a random shape, one way is to hit the hot key "q" which does something w/ the canvas which i can't remember what it is called.



After that, select the brush tool and then brush the area you want to select. Wherever you brush should be highlighted a transparent red. Either that, or the whole picture is red when you hit "q" and your brush wipes off the transparent red wherever you want to crop.



It doesn't matter whether it's all red or all normal when you hit q, the important thing is that when you use the brush tool to paint what you want to crop, it should highlight one or the other.



After you are done painting what you want to crop, hit the hot key "i" to invert the picture, and then hit the hot key "q" to exit the canvas thingy and you should then be left with a selected part of the picture. Hit delete to erase what is selected and you are left with what you wanted to crop.





If that crops the opposite things of what you wanted to crop, just undo, hot key "q", hot key "i", hot key "q" to exit, and hit delete.



I'm not very good w/ the terminology of photoshop, but I hope this helps.

Answer 4

Theres a tool that looks like a dotted rectangle (I think) and if you right click on it theres one that is a triangular thing with a curly at the end and it is a magnetic cropper thing. It sticks to the outside of the shape thing and lets you crop it.

Also, theres a magic wand tool, if the shape you want to select is mostly the same color, and you can just use the magic wand and click on it and it'll select most of the same color.

I'm not sure if this is right because I haven't used photoshop since the summer, so sorry if this wasn't much help.

Answer 5

I believe you are asking how do you cut it into a odd shape and then put it over another picture. you can just ctrl+a to select the whole thing ctrl+c to copy it then go to the other picture you want it to be over create a new layer and hit ctrl+v to paste it then you can go from there and use your eraser to shape it any way you want or even fade it by using your eraser then adjusting the flow/opacity on the top of your screen. if you want to resize your picture or just make it fit differently hit ctrl+t to enter free transform and use the edges to resize it. if you want to keep the original proportions hold shift down as your resizing. hope this helps any other photoshop questions id be happy to help you out with its actually fun for me just email me a way to contact you via messenger at [e-mail]

Answer 6

look at the tool bar there is a tool "crop" (black square) and for layer first select the area you want to split or copy as area (using selection tools like lasso) and then right click select layer via copy for copy an instance or layer via cut any question [e-mail]

Answer 7

It depends which version of photoshop you have. Usually if you hold down the rectangular key, it will allow you to change the shape.

First you draw the shape of the image you want to cut, then you to to edit: cut, then paste. It's really easy.