Cropping

[Jay B.]

Gary, please review additional comments too. I'm not sure if my thinking is
100% here.

If you are downloading images from the web, who knows what you are getting
for dimensions? After all, the pictures are likely cropped by someone else
already.

Anyway, don't use the Crop tool. (It's name is deceiving when you are
specifying images sizes. It really should be called Crop/Resize because it
will resample your image to the size you indicate in the "width / height"
fields. Not good--especially if you're doing a heavy crop).

That said, I would press M for the marquee tool (rectangle), set Style to
Fixed Aspect Ratio, and then enter your paper dimensions there, say 4 x 6.
Now outline what you want and move it around (click-drag in the box) and
finally press Image | Crop. Now you have a correctly formatted image for
printing.

Will it look good? That depends... you need the resolution for a nice
looking print. Anyway, my advise is stay away from the crop tool for unless
you *need* to resize/resample.

jb



"Gary" <GaryC@hvc.rr.com> wrote in message
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> When I download photos and crop them, it changes the size so that if i

bring

> in a CDrom of the photo to have printed, it doesn't print to the proper
> dimensions.
>
> How do I adjust this?
> Thanks
>
>
>

[Jim Johnston]

I have PS Elements 2 & finding it difficult to end up with the size I want
as after I use the crop tool I only have squares at the corners but none on
the lines in between so I can only use only the corners for changing the
size. This makes an impossible situation. I hope this makes sense. Any help
would be appreciated. Jim Johnston.
[email]jim_joh@pacbell.net[/email]

[url]www.jamesjohnston.net[/url]

[Jim Johnston]

I found the answer. You have to click the clear button on the option bar.
Jim Johnston

[Gary]

I've had 4x6 pictures that I wish to crop and keep the same ratio to print
them. Is there an easy way to crop with those ratios?

[David Thompson]

Rather than crop, I prefer to use the Marquee tool (M). Set the style to
fixed aspect ratio (6 wide x 4 high in this case), set view to show the
grid, then select the area you want to capture for printing, using the grid
to guide you. copy the selection, open a new file and paste. Now open the
image > resize, check constrain proportion, uncheck resample and set either
of the two print dimensions. The resolution will change to maintain the
same number of pixels in the re-sized image. If it's >180, you have
sufficient info for a decent "drugstore quality" print. If it's >250 you
will need a magnifier to see flaws in the final print.
David "Routemeister" Thompson (Canon G1, PS v5, PSE v2)


"Gary" <GaryC@hvc.rr.com> wrote in message
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I've had 4x6 pictures that I wish to crop and keep the same ratio to print
them. Is there an easy way to crop with those ratios?

[nick_watts@adobeforums.com]

I need to find out how, (using distiller settings?) to create a PDF that crops to it's trim marks when rasterized in photoshop. I know this is possible as i have found a pdf that does exactly this. can anyone help?