{"id":96242,"date":"2022-11-29T11:50:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T10:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=96242"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:18:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:18:32","slug":"4-tricks-fix-bad-photos-photoshop-nr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/4-tricks-fix-bad-photos-photoshop-nr\/","title":{"rendered":"How to crop an image in Photoshop and other quick tips"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019ve taken a failure of a photo and don\u2019t want to send it to the Recycle bin. Relax: you\u2019re not alone. It\u2019s happened to us all that a snapshot we really wanted doesn\u2019t turn out well. Can you get it back? The answer is no, but it can be fixed or modified. <\/strong>There is a lot you can do in Photoshop to improve images and we’ve put together some basic Photoshop tutorials to help you do so. <\/strong>In other words, in this post, we\u2019ll show you how to \u201cmake up\u201d a bad photo. Of course, don\u2019t forget the basic principle of design: if there\u2019s nothing to work with, there\u2019s nothing to work with. Leave magic to magicians.<\/p>\n

Image editing with Adobe Photoshop opens a world of possibilities as you can resize images, straighten, change the aspect ratio, crop images, and more. Let’s not waste any more time, and get straight into basic tips for editing images on Photoshop.<\/p>\n

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How to crop your photo<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The first trick is how to use the Photoshop crop tool. Maybe your snapshot isn\u2019t good because it has secondary elements in the scene. For example, you\u2019ve taken a landscape shot, and in the lower corner, you\u2019ve caught a person. You can always \u201ccrop\u201d the figure and fix it.<\/p>\n

To do this, click on the icon below the Magic Wand<\/strong>, right-click on it and select Crop Tool.<\/strong> The rest depends on you and your creativity, of course. You can select a crop area and delete cropped pixels falls outside the crop boundaries. You’ll keep everything inside the crop box and the cropped area outside it will be deleted.<\/p>\n

To do this you simply double-click your mouse button or press enter. Doing so will leave you with just the cropped image although you can easily get the original image back by undoing your action.<\/p>\n

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Adjust lighting (or modify the histogram)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This is a classic: adjust the photo\u2019s lighting. Or technically speaking, open the histogram. To do this, you only need to press Control + L<\/strong>. What if you don\u2019t have much confidence with keyboard commands? Then go to  Enhance<\/strong> -> Adjust Lighting<\/strong> -> Levels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll point out that dealing with histograms isn\u2019t easy since you can destroy different intensity levels with a few simple clicks. Our advice, if this happens to you, is to click on Automatic Levels<\/strong> and  Photoshop<\/a> will take care of the rest. Also, you can do tests and see how they turn out. As long as you don\u2019t click OK<\/strong>, everything is permitted (as they famously say in Assassin\u2019s Creed).<\/p>\n

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Use available filters <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Filters<\/strong>. Who doesn\u2019t know about filters these days? Tools like Instagram and Facebook have popularized filters for photos. They take default settings and apply them to the snapshot in question. We\u2019re not in love with them (nobody is in the audiovisual world), but it\u2019s a good option for saving some photos.<\/p>\n

In Photoshop, it appears in the upper section as Filters. <\/strong>There are so many, they could fill an article alone. Try them out!<\/p>\n

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Adjust color levels<\/strong><\/h2>\n

We\u2019ll wrap up our special tricks to fix an image using Photoshop with Adjust color settings. To find it go to Enhance<\/strong> -> Adjust Color<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Problems with adjusting color? Well, like the histogram, if you don\u2019t know how to control different photo settings, you\u2019ll likely end up overloading the photo. It\u2019s that simple. You can do color tests by sliding the three available bars since before you click OK<\/strong>, the work won\u2019t be saved (so you can preview how the image<\/p>\n

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