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Think the Crop Tool is only for cropping images? Learn how it can also be used to quickly add more canvas and a border around your photos!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Written by Steve Patterson.<\/div>\n

So far in this series on cropping images in Photoshop, we've seen several examples of how the Crop Tool is used to crop away unwanted areas of an image. But a lesser-known feature of the Crop Tool is that it can also be used to add more canvas space<\/strong> around an image, giving us a quick and easy way to add a decorative border around a photo! In this tutorial, we'll learn how to add canvas space with the Crop Tool, and how to turn the extra space into a simple, customizable photo border!<\/p>\n

If you're not yet familiar with using the Crop Tool in Photoshop, you may want to read through the first tutorial in this series, how to crop images<\/a>, before you continue. I'll be using Photoshop CC<\/a> here but this tutorial is fully compatible with CS6 and earlier. <\/p>\n

You can use any image of your own to follow along. Here's the photo<\/a> I'll be using which I downloaded from Adobe Stock:<\/p>\n\"Selecting\n

The original photo. Image credit: Adobe Stock.<\/div>\n

This is lesson 3 in my Cropping Images in Photoshop<\/a> series.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n