Remembering the simple keyboard shortcuts used in this task can make the cropping process extremely fast, and combined with the overall speed and efficiency of the Preview app, it’s usually much faster to go this route than opening images in Photoshop or Pixelmator. Finally, hit Command + S to save the cropped image.By default the selection tool should be immediately active and visible with an image open, so draw the rectangular selection around the area to crop as usual.Select the image you want to crop in the Finder and hit Command + O to open it in Preview (assuming Preview is the default image viewing application).This is an efficient one trick to use if you plan to use the crop tool often and want to speed things up up: You can even speed up up the cropping process using keyboard shortcuts during the task, here is basically the same process as started from the Finder. Crop images faster in Preview with keyboard shortcuts Keep in mind that doing this also indirectly resizes an image by reducing the total number of pixels in the image file, but unlike the resizing functions for a large number, you cannot crop the same way with groups of images in Preview because it requires a unique selection.
#CROP IN MAC PHOTO PREVIEW HOW TO#
The video walkthrough below shows how to crop an image from this wallpaper post: