There are times when a picture needs cropping to eliminate undesired areas or parts. Adobe Photoshop Elements can help you:

Use the Crop Tool  to select the area you wish to crop (to deselect it, press the ESC key). Press the Enter key to crop the photo to include only the selected area.

• Crop for interest. Whether you crop in the camera or later in software, focus on what really matters in the picture, and crop for that.

• Crop to fit standard print sizes. Make sure you’re getting the photo print you want by setting the image editor to standard print sizes. Doing so automatically crops some of the photo for you.

• Try unusual crop shapes. Wide panoramas and tall vertical shapes can make the right photo look great. Ovals, squares and circles can add life to a picture, too. As you get the hang of cropping, you see its power and want to try more things like tight portraits with the hair, chin and ears cropped out.

• Straighten crooked horizons. Sometimes a photo is crooked. You can crop to make it look straight.

Crop Tool The crop tool will allow you to use only the portion of the image that you want to use.

Don’t mess with success. If you’ve cropped the photo right the first time, resist the need to trim more. Sometimes leaving a photo alone is the best crop of all.