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3. Rotating and Resizing Photos > Zooming and Repositioning Your View
Sometimes, rather than changing the size of your photo, all you want to do is change its appearance in Elements so you can get a better look at it. For example, you may want to zoom in on a particular area, or zoom out so you can see how edits you’ve made have affected your photo’s overall look.
Figure 3-14. With Elements’ Cookie Cutter tool, you don’t have to be square. It lets you crop your images to various shapes, from the kind of abstract border you see here, to heart- or star-shaped outlines. There’s more on how to use this tool in Chapter 12.
This section is about how to adjust your view of images. Nothing you do with the tools and commands covered in this section changes anything about your actual photo—you’re just changing the way you see it. Elements gives you lots of tools and keystroke combinations to help with these views; soon you’ll probably find yourself changing perspective without even thinking about it.
