Cropping and Freestyle Rotation for PC and Mac

To crop your image, click on the icon that appears like this , to be found just above the Preview Tabs in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen.

As you move over the Canvas area the cursor will change to look like this. Pick a starting point anywhere on the image, then left click, hold and drag the cursor across the image – as you do this, you will draw a red-edged rectangle around the area that you want to keep – see the screen-grab below:

When you release the mouse, the area you want to crop turns a grey colour and along each edge of the red rectangle three red dots appear; there is also a red dot in the centre of the image – see the screen-grab below:

If you now move the cursor over the area you intend to keep, the cursor changes shape and becomes a grabber and you can slide the rectangle about over the image.

In this screen-grab below the rectangle has been moved to the right:

You can also reduce, increase or fine-tune the area you intend to keep, as well as change its shape.

Any of these objectives can be met by moving the cursor to one of the eight red dots around the edge of the rectangle, whereupon the cursor changes shape and becomes either a freestyle rotate icon or a handle.

To reduce the area you want to crop, use the handle and simply drag it towards the centre of the image; and to increase the area, drag the handle away from the centre. In this screen-grab the handle in the top right-hand corner has been pulled inwards:

If you want to rotate your picture left or right around a moveable axis, use the freestyle rotate icon. The axis is illustrated with the use of a red target that appears in the centre of the picture.

You can then click and drag this across the surface of the photograph to the point at which you want the rotation to occur.

Once you have found the right position, just release the mouse.

To rotate the image anti-clockwise, move your mouse to the left or right of the image and then click, hold and slide it up the screen - as shown in the screen-grab below.

To rotate the image clockwise, move your mouse to the right or left of the image and then click, hold and slide it down the screen.

To cancel the crop, click the Cancel Crop button, and to execute your crop, click the Crop button, both of which you will find in the top right-hand corner of your screen.

After you click the Crop button, the area you don’t want will be removed and the area you want to keep will pop on to the Canvas on a fit-to-view basis, as seen in the screen-grab above.

The new image size, in terms of pixels and megabytes, will be displayed in the very bottom left-hand corner of your screen.

If having executed a crop you wish to start again, just click the Reset button to be found in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen, or to undo your last action, just click the Undo icon.