Scream of the Crop: How to Resize and Crop Photos - The Adobe Photoshop CC - page 226

Creating Your Own Custom Crop Tools
Although it's more of an advanced technique, creating your own custom tools isn't com-
plicated. In fact, once you set them up, they will save you time and money. We're going to
create what are called “tool presets.” These tool presets are a series of tools (in this case,
Crop tools) with all our option settings already in place, so we can create a 5x7", 6x4", or
whatever size Crop tool we want. Then, when we want to crop to 5x7", all we have to do is
grab the 5x7" Crop tool preset. Here's how:
Step One:
Press the letter C to switch to the Crop tool, and then go under the Window menu and
choose Tool Presets to bring up the Tool Presets panel. You'll find that five Crop tool pre-
sets are already there. (Make sure that the Current Tool Only checkbox is turned on at the
bottom of the panel, so you'll see only the Crop tool's presets, and not the presets for every
tool.)
Step Two:
Go up to the Options Bar and, with the pop-up menu set to Ratio , enter the dimensions
for the first tool you want to create (in this example, we'll create a Crop tool that crops to
a wallet-size image). In the Width field, enter 2 in, then press the Tab key to jump to the
Height field, enter 2.5 in, and press Return (PC: Enter). Note: If you want to include the
resolution in your tool preset, from the pop-up menu, choose W x H x Resolution . Enter
your height, width, and resolution in the fields to the right of the pop-up menu, and click
OK.