Let's create that simplified black and white effect on a photo using threshold adjustment and make a so called Internet meme or a motivational poster ready to be printed on an A4 size paper.
The new Adobe Photoshop CC introduced quite a few awesome updates to existing tools and feature. One of the most welcomed ones sure is some of the new Image Resize functionalities, check it out.
In Photoshop CS6, the new version of Photoshop, you can use special cropping tool and you are done, but that doesn't mean you cannot achieve the same result with older versions.