Cropping Out White Space In Photoshop Without The Crop Tool

Posted by scottbourne on January 28, 2009
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If you have a blank area surrounding your image, you can use Photoshop’s TRIM command to crop it away with one fell swoop.

Open an image with white space around it. Go to IMAGE > TRIM. You will see a dialog box that gives you choices on how the trim will be applied. Accept the default settings and click OKAY. The photo will be close cropped automatically. Photoshop will make the overall image as small as it can without cutting out non-white areas of the image.

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  1. Thanks for the tip. In the process of seeing if Photoshop Elements had a similar command I found Image > Rotate > Straighten and Crop Image which seems to work similar but it also straightens the image which always seems to be required after scanning a photo. At least for me. I don’t know why I’ve never discovered those commands before. I’ve been doing it the manual Crop way for years.

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