i’m sure you use photoshop’s crop tool!

and yes, i’m sure you’ve noticed that if you crop images in photoshop (using the crop tool [C] or edit » crop), you will lose all pixels outside the crop boundaries.

but are you sure you want that?!

To crop your image without losing any data, use canvas size (image » canvas size) instead. Photoshop will warn you that some clipping will occur, but for some reason that does not happen.

….and all “cropped” data will be preserved outside the canvas boundaries!

haha… you have outsmarted the crop tool in photoshop!!

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