Easy way to crop to 3:2 ratio?

Hi,

Sorry if I'm missing the bleedin' obvious here, but I just can't see an *easy* way to know what the aspect ratio of a selection or crop area is?

My situation is I've got some pictures from a digital camera, but they're at the usual 4:3 ratio. I'd like to crop them before printing so they come out at 6x4.

The Info panel shows the width and height of the selection, but no aspect ratio.

The only solution I can see is once I've got the height, use a calculator to work out what the width should be.

Any tips? (Other than: ditch the digi for a film camera or buy a digi which does proper 3:2 pics).

Surely I'm not alone here?

Cheers,
Steve.

From: Steve

Sorry if I'm missing the bleedin' obvious here, but I just can't see an *easy* way to know what the aspect ratio of a selection or crop area is?

One way is to use the rectangular marquee tool with feather = 0 and in the Style box select 'Fixed Aspect Ratio' and enter 3 and 2. Once you have the selection right do Image > Crop.

On 14/11/03 9:07 pm, in article
, "Bill Hilton"
wrote:

From: Steve

Sorry if I'm missing the bleedin' obvious here, but I just can't see an *easy* way to know what the aspect ratio of a selection or crop area is?

One way is to use the rectangular marquee tool with feather = 0 and in the Style box select 'Fixed Aspect Ratio' and enter 3 and 2. Once you have the selection right do Image > Crop.

<red face>
Thanks Bill, it appears I was missing the bleedin' obvious. :) </red face>

Cheers,
Steve.

This can be done as follows:

Open the photo file with your image that you wish to crop. Open a 'new' file and set the dimension to the size/ratio you are aiming for.
Select the crop tool.
Click "Front Image"
Reselect the photo file and use the crop tool which will now be forced into the ratio you just pre-set.
Adjust the crop outline to cover the parts of the image you want to retain and then click on the "tick' which should appear on the right of the tool bar.
The cropped image is then set to ratio/dimensions (and resolution) you set.

voila

"Steve" a

THANK YOU - this is quite helpful. I have been using the crop tool. If I scan a 4x5 negative and use the crop tool to select a section of the negative keeping the 4x5 perspective, I get a new image the same size, pixel- and megabyte-wise. This requires interpolation of pixels which I don't want. Your technique reduces the image size both in storage and total pixels which is great.
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From: Steve

Sorry if I'm missing the bleedin' obvious here, but I just can't see an *easy* way to know what the aspect ratio of a selection or crop area is?

One way is to use the rectangular marquee tool with feather = 0 and in the Style box select 'Fixed Aspect Ratio' and enter 3 and 2. Once you have

the

selection right do Image > Crop.