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Today in Titanic History Sunday, March 22, 2026 | | 1886 - 1st class passenger Mr William Thomas Stead published an article entitled 'How the Mail Steamer Went Down in Mid-Atlantic, by a Survivor'. In the story an unnamed steamer collides with another ship and due to a shortage of lifeboats there is a large loss of life. Stead wrote 'This is exactly what might take place and will take place if liners are sent to sea short of boats. - Ed'.
1884 - 3rd class passenger Mr Henry Margido Olsen was born to Ole Rørosgaard and Eva Gustava Søderholm in Trondheim, Norway.
1914 - 3rd class survivor Miss Anna ("Mary Joseph") Peter / Joseph died of burns caused by a housefire in Detroit, Michigan, USA at the age of 4.
1927 - Kitchen Clerk and survivor Mr Paul Achille Maurice Germain Mauge married his first wife Suzanne Florentine Rambault, who was not on the Titanic.
1887 - Kitchen Clerk and survivor Mr Paul Achille Maurice Germain Mauge was born to Félicité Marie LeFloch and Athanase Maugé in Paris, France.
1997 - The last day of principal filming for James Cameron's movie "Titanic" in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. Most of the "flying" scene was shot between the 20th and 22nd.
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Cropping
What seem like basic tools in Photoshop are more than they seem.
The Crop Tool:
On the tools menu, click on the top left box and hold down the mouse button. Several more tools will appear and the Crop Tool is the funky one at the end.
Open any image, select the Crop Tool, and click and drag just like with the Selection Tool. Instead of a dotted line, you get a solid box with small boxes in the corners and on the edges. These smaller boxes are handles, which you can drag in different directions. Once the box is where you want it, double-click inside the box, hit the "Enter" key, or right-click and click "Crop." All of the areas outside the box are cut off.
This is simple enough, but there's more you might not have noticed the Crop Tool can do.
Click and drag another box for cropping. Move your mouse outside the box and your cursor turns into a curved arrow. You can click and drag around the box and it turns. When pulling on the corner handles, hold down the "Control" key and the box keeps the same ratio (width to height). Hold down the "Control" key when you're turning the box and it will turn at 15 degree intervals.
It gets better. Maybe you want something you're cropping to be a specific size. Go to the Options tab in Photoshop (it appears under the menu in Photoshop 6). You can choose Aspect Ratio to make the width and height the same ratio as a box the dimensions you type.
When you choose Fixed Size on the dropdown menu, it offers width and height in pixels. Once you have those entered, you can click and drag a box on the image and it will stay with the same ratio. The difference from Aspect Ratio is that when you crop it, the cropped image will become the size you specified, not just the same ratio. So, if you input that you want a 90x100 image and your box is 545 wide, it will make it 90 wide x 100 high. *Footnote: In dimensions, the first number is the width and second is the height.
Cropping is particularly helpful when making Actions to remove the letter boxing (black lines) from widescreen captures.
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