Help · Working with photos
Crop a photo
Cropping cuts a picture down to the part you want. While you are cropping, Crevano shows you the whole photo dimmed, with your keep-area cut out of the shade — so you are choosing from what is actually there rather than guessing at what the frame is hiding.
Steps
- Click the photo to select it.
- Press
C. Or click Crop in the Photo group of the toolbar. Or right-click the photo and choose Crop image….
- The photo expands to show all of it, dimmed. The bright rectangle is what you will keep.
- Drag the corner handles to resize that rectangle. Drag inside it to move the picture around underneath.
- Click Done, or press
Enter.
The three buttons on the crop bar
| Button | Does | |---|---| | Reset | Puts the keep-area back to the whole photo, without leaving crop mode | | Cancel | Leaves crop mode and puts the photo back exactly as it was. Esc does the same | | Done | Applies the crop. Enter does the same |
What happens to the layout
The frame shrinks to what you kept. Every remaining pixel stays exactly where it was and exactly the size it was — the picture does not zoom to fill the old box. That is what makes this cropping rather than nudging, and it means a crop changes your layout. If you wanted the box to stay put, you wanted moving the photo inside its frame instead.
> Note > Cropping an already-cropped photo narrows the keep-area further; it does not reopen the > original. To start over, enter crop mode and click Reset before dragging.
Cropping does not throw pixels away
The whole source image is still in the file. That is why Reset can bring it back, and why ⌘Z undoes a crop cleanly.