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How to Crop a Single Layer in Photoshop

Here are two ways to crop a single layer in Photoshop so you can crop the contents of one layer without cropping every layer at once.

For Photoshop 2025 and earlier.

Download the PDF: How To Crop A Single Layer in Photoshop

Written by Steve Patterson.

One question I’m asked a lot is, We can’t use the Crop Tool because it crops all layers at once.

So in this tutorial, I show you two ways to do it. The first way is the easiest way to crop a layer, but the easy way is not always the best.

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So I also show you a better way that's both flexible (you can go back and edit the crop) and non-destructive.

I'm using Photoshop 2025, released in October 2024, but any recent version will work.

Here I have a document with two layers, as we see in the Layers panel.

Photoshop’s Layers panel.

Each layer holds a different image.

Here’s the image on the top layer (couple photo from Adobe Stock). I want to crop away most of this image and keep just the area around the two pe

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