Photo Editing 

Photo editing can a useful skill to know. Especially when you want to make a photo look better!

Cropping a photo

  1. Choose a photo to crop 

  2. Drag and drop the photo onto the Photoshop canvas 

  3. Click on the crop tool on the left-hand side 

  4. Cropping borders will appear on the outside of the photo 

  5. Move the borders til you get the position you want 



Drop shadows are an effect that can be added to a photo or even an object within a photo. 

  1. At the bottom right there is an Fx button. Click on this 

  2. Find “drop shadow” at the bottom of the pop-up list 

  3. Another window will pop up. 

  4. From a drop-down list, you can decide what blend mode. 

  5. Here is where you can decide the angle. If you want it on either the left side or the right side. Wherever you want the shadow. 

  6. The distance from the object. 

  7. The size of the shadow

  8. There is an option to add some contour and noise