Although tools such as the Crop and StraightenPhotos command are meant as productivity aids tocrop and straighten multiple images at one time,youcan use the same tool in various creative ways.You can create multiple images from one file byusingthe command to divide one photograph intomultiple sections. You can make individualphotographs from each section of the original orapply a diptych or triptych look to an image, makingtwo or three panels for the image, which you canprint and frame separately. Select a plain, rectangular frame shape as acustomshape to designate the areas that you wantto crop into new images. Photoshop turns thoseseparate shapes into separate images that you cansave as new files. The trick to this technique is toleave a small margin around each of the shapeselections and to create a separate layer for eachshape when you use the Custom Shape tool. You canuse the shape as part of your final print, or you candelete it because it is on a separate layer.
1 In a large file, click and hold theRectangle tool and select theCustom Shape tool.
2 Click the Fill Pixels icon in theOptions bar.
3 Click here.
4 Select the square thin frameshape.
5 Click the New Layer icon in theLayers palette.
6 Click and drag a frame shape inthe image.
7 Repeat steps 5 and 6 twice tohave two more layers and twomore frame shapes.
8 Click here.
9 Click Merge Down.
10 Repeat steps 8 and 9sothat there is onlyonelayer above theBackground layer.
11 Click File.
12 Click Automate.
13 Click Crop andStraighten Photos.
14 Click the Close button of the original file.
15 Click the Maximize button on each of thethree new files to enlarge them.
16 Click and drag each file to align the threenew separate files to view the triptych.
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