How to crop photos in Canva

Hello. In this video we're gonna look at cropping images. Okay, watch this. If I go into here,  you can see we have chopped out parts of the image. So we can only see one part of the trees. Cropping is pretty easy.

There are some cool smart cropping features  and some automatic leveling. Let's dig in. Alright, cropping. Um, we might have stumbled across it already. If you have an image selected  and you use the dots in the corners, you resize stuff. If you use these lines, okay, on the straight part, okay?

Any of them, it will crop it. There you go. Now for a bit more detail, if I double click on it  or use this option here, it doesn't matter. The crop button, okay, gets you into this mode,  which kind of looks a little confusing. It's not I'm gonna hit cancel or you double click on it. You end up in the same spot.

It doesn't matter which way you go. What you'll now see is the image inside the frame. So if I click on the background, okay,  I can adjust the frame. Okay? If I wanna adjust the image inside of the frame,  I want to kind of move it so that maybe the tent is lower. Okay?

I'm gonna drag this down. If I double click on it, now I can drag the image  inside of this box. Okay? So I can do all sorts of stuff. So with it selected, I can rotate this image. It will try and make sure  that the image covers the whole frame,  that square there, that window, okay?

So it will get larger if you do rotate it. Okay? You can rotate it over here. You can rotate it using this option. You can scale it by the corners in here. You can only scale it so  that it does not get cut off by the frame.

There are some automatic options. If I hit auto in this document, it's gonna look at it  and see whether it can find the horizontal plane. Okay? The horizon line. That's what I wanted. Okay, so yours, it might work, give it a auto go  to see if it lines it up and crops it and rotates it.

Try this smart crop. Smart crop will try and frame your image, okay? And try and fit it all in. Let's go for something bigger and go to smart crop. Okay? It's gonna crop it down to like, well that's  what it thinks all the useful information in this image is,  yours will change depending on your image.

The one thing you might see that I don't see at the moment  is if you end up messing with the image for long enough,  there's something called aspect ratio goes away. So I'm gonna click, okay, I've got my crop,  I gotta bring in another image. I'm gonna show you A cool trick is  let's say we like this one. The client likes it. Oh, I flipped that one is you can't,  oh it's 'cause I flipped it. That's probably why.

I bet you if I bring back  that image now and double click on it,  oh always wondered why it went away. Now we both know, okay, so this didn't appear before. Okay? So aspect ratio doesn't matter if you like freeform is we  can just scale it how we want. Square is an easy aspect ratio. It's one along the top by one down the side, uh, for video.

That's say going out to YouTube, they 16 by nine. Okay? So that's that aspect ratio so that you know  that this is the kind of frame for something that will,  you know, be cropped perfectly for YouTube. A thumbnail for YouTube  or an image still that's going into your YouTube video. The opposite. So 16 by nine, nine  by 16 is just a vertical one.

So this is normally your phone size. So good for an Instagram story, okay? Or an Instagram or a TikTok video, kind of  that portrait version. Typically  A frame, okay? Like a  photo frame on your, I don't know, above your fire. That's where I've got my photos is four by three.

Hmm. Won't get too far into it,  but that's another thing that you will see that goes away. Turns out when you flip it, I click done. One of the things I'll show in here is,  'cause it's not quite cropping,  but let's get rid of that one is if I have it selected,  you've got rounded corners, okay? It's not very exciting, but it's kind of like cropping. That's the reason I'm throwing it into this video.

Okay? I'm gonna have none there,  but just know that it's there if you need it. Now this cropping works the same  if you set it as the background. So I'm gonna right click it and say, you are set  as background and you'll notice it's crop things  and you're like, Ooh, how do I get the stuff back? Just double click it like we did before. Or use the crop tool and you can say, all right,  I wanna set the rotation back to zero.

Okay? And I want to just move it so that it's a better crop  for my background 'cause it just takes a guess  or it just sticks it right in the middle. Okay? So you can do adjustments that way. The last thing with cropping is often to kind  of keep some symmetry, we want an image. I'm gonna right click and detach it from the background.

I'm gonna get my frame up in this corner here. I'm gonna resize it, okay? To kind of be full width. And what I wanna do is drag it  and you'll see that it will snap  to the middle, which is handy. So you're unsure what the middle measurement is. Just keep dragging it close to it  and it will kind of like you see it's locking it in there.

Okay? You can do the same with the height and the width. Okay? You'll see it'll kind of like lock it in there. I'm not sure where these extra lines are coming from. There are new things since the new change in the  layout, but there you go.

You can drag these things  and get close to where you need it to be and it should snap. Now what I wanna do for my one is I want  to get it actually uh, two, three quarters of the way down  and you'll notice that snaps as well. Watch, watch, watch. Whoop see kind  of just goes whoop and kind of gets to there. So it's pretty easy to get pretty aligned inside of Canva. But Dan, how do you crop it inside of a circle?

Ooh, that is very interesting  and we'll do it in the next video  'cause it's a different feature. But if an out, that's it for cropping  and I'll see you in the next video.