A Quick Bit of PhotoShop Help!

Ahhh I think I’ve very finally sorted it! After using everyone’s advice and changing things around it looks like it’s finally doing what I want it to. Thanks for the advice 🙂

Hmmm,

In the ‘Image Size’ box is ‘resample image’ checked?

Moggy

I’m reading the image size from the box when I go to ‘Image Size’ to re-size the shot. I didn’t realise originally, I started editing some shots but then realised that after every crop, the width was still 3456 pixels (and the height always remains at 2304 pixels).

You must return the resolution to 72 dpi anyway

Where are you reading the image size from?

Moggy

My guess is that you have the ‘sizes & rulers’ wrong in preferences, if you set that to pixels & put 1200 & 800 @ 72 in the top bar, it ‘should’ do what you want (I hope)
Al

Just tried, unfortunately not 🙁 Although in the ‘Units and Rulers’ preferences section it was set to points rather than pixels, and so that may provide a clue to part of the problem.

My guess is that you have the ‘sizes & rulers’ wrong in preferences, if you set that to pixels & put 1200 & 800 @ 72 in the top bar, it ‘should’ do what you want (I hope)
Al

So let’s get this straight

You’ve got a 3 in the width box and a 2 in the height box

You use the cropping tool to mask by eye

Once you have it to your satisfaction you click the tick

… and the image comes out stretched?

Moggy

I tried putting a 3 in the width box and a 2 in the height box, with 72 in the resolution, and when I crop the photo came out tiny. So then I tried changing the proportions and resolutions etc, and got to the point I am at now.

Currently it says 121.92cm in the width box and 81.28cm in the height box with a resolution of 28.346. When using this, I crop my 3456 pixel wide photos and they still remain at 3456 pixels wide.

So let’s get this straight

You’ve got a 3 in the width box and a 2 in the height box

You use the cropping tool to mask by eye

Once you have it to your satisfaction you click the tick

… and the image comes out stretched?

Moggy

Are you entering the dimensions for the crop into the two fill-in boxes on the status bar?

If it’s stretching the image it sounds as if you’ve unconstrained the proportions in your Image > Image Size menu selection

Moggy

Well in the past I cropped pretty much by eye, whereas now I like to crop all photos so that they re-size to 1200×800 (3:2). The proportions are still contrained in the image size menu :confused:

If I was to crop in that way, would you be able to tell me exactly what dimensions should be enetered in the dimension boxes at the top, and anything else that would have to be set? Many thanks.

Are you entering the dimensions for the crop into the two fill-in boxes on the status bar?

If it’s stretching the image it sounds as if you’ve unconstrained the proportions in your Image > Image Size menu selection

Moggy

A far easier way of cropping is to create a new file which is the size you want to crop to – say 3000 x 2000 pixels, and cut and paste the original picture into this, smaller, frame. Far less hassle.