crop pictures – with a slight difference

Hi guys,

I need to crop a couple of hundred photos to 260 x 112 px – but I’m only looking at taking a selection of the pic, and not the whole lot….

I’m looking to set a default size on the crop tool (which Photoshop sortof says it can do it, but I haven’t figured out how)
Also, the pic will need to be resized bigger or smaller, depending which bit I want to chop out – I want to do this easily, and the Zoom In and Zoom Out work just fine for this – except that the crop tool obviously resizes accordingly.

I guess at the end of the day, looking for a key sequence to zoom in and out, while whatever the crop tool takes out of that is 260 x 112
Hoping I’ve made some sense 😉

wrote:

Hi guys,

Hoping I’ve made some sense 😉

The zoom tool has nothing to do with cropping. All it does is show your picture on screen bigger or smaller.

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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl

Hi guys,

I need to crop a couple of hundred photos to 260 x 112 px – but I’m only looking at taking a selection of the pic, and not the whole lot….

I’m looking to set a default size on the crop tool (which Photoshop sortof says it can do it, but I haven’t figured out how)
Also, the pic will need to be resized bigger or smaller, depending which bit I want to chop out – I want to do this easily, and the Zoom In and Zoom Out work just fine for this – except that the crop tool obviously resizes accordingly.

I guess at the end of the day, looking for a key sequence to zoom in and out, while whatever the crop tool takes out of that is 260 x 112
Hoping I’ve made some sense 😉

Hi Johan – I’m with that – I was just describing the ease of use (Ctl + or -), and the visual effect (picture gets bigger or smaller), as being the ease of resize that I was looking for. (- as well as being able to preset the crop size so I get the same size each time..

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Hi Johan – I’m with that – I was just describing the ease of use (Ctl + or -), and the visual effect (picture gets bigger or smaller), as being the ease of resize that I was looking for. (- as well as being able to preset the crop size so I get the same size each time..

Ok, I understand. What you can do is set the Crop Tool to ‘260 px’ x ‘112 px’. Then you just crop the part of the image you want. Photoshop will automatically crop and resize the image the image to 260 x 112 pixels.

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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl

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Hi guys,

I need to crop a couple of hundred photos to 260 x 112 px – but I’m only looking at taking a selection of the pic, and not the whole lot….

I’m looking to set a default size on the crop tool (which Photoshop sortof says it can do it, but I haven’t figured out how)
Also, the pic will need to be resized bigger or smaller, depending which bit I want to chop out – I want to do this easily, and the Zoom In and Zoom Out work just fine for this – except that the crop tool obviously resizes accordingly.

I guess at the end of the day, looking for a key sequence to zoom in and out, while whatever the crop tool takes out of that is 260 x 112
Hoping I’ve made some sense 😉

I think your best bet would be to create a new image 260 x 112. Then set up an action to paste every image into it as a new layer (momory permitting if not drag them in) then manualy go through them layer at a time moving the layer image around to suit resizing with the transform tool, save then switch that layer off to reaveal the next one etc.

Kingdom wrote:

wrote in news:1156927713.461561.14230@
74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com:

Hi guys,

I need to crop a couple of hundred photos to 260 x 112 px – but I’m only looking at taking a selection of the pic, and not the whole lot….

I’m looking to set a default size on the crop tool (which Photoshop sortof says it can do it, but I haven’t figured out how)
Also, the pic will need to be resized bigger or smaller, depending which bit I want to chop out – I want to do this easily, and the Zoom In and Zoom Out work just fine for this – except that the crop tool obviously resizes accordingly.

I guess at the end of the day, looking for a key sequence to zoom in and out, while whatever the crop tool takes out of that is 260 x 112
Hoping I’ve made some sense 😉

I think your best bet would be to create a new image 260 x 112. Then set up an action to paste every image into it as a new layer (momory permitting if not drag them in) then manualy go through them layer at a time moving the layer image around to suit resizing with the transform tool, save then switch that layer off to reaveal the next one etc.

Er, no.
Unless one just likes complex "solutions" to a simple problem. Read previous replies.

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Kingdom wrote:

wrote in news:1156927713.461561.14230@
74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com:

Hi guys,

I need to crop a couple of hundred photos to 260 x 112 px – but I’m only looking at taking a selection of the pic, and not the whole lot….

I’m looking to set a default size on the crop tool (which Photoshop sortof says it can do it, but I haven’t figured out how)
Also, the pic will need to be resized bigger or smaller, depending which bit I want to chop out – I want to do this easily, and the Zoom In and Zoom Out work just fine for this – except that the crop tool obviously resizes accordingly.

I guess at the end of the day, looking for a key sequence to zoom in and out, while whatever the crop tool takes out of that is 260 x 112
Hoping I’ve made some sense 😉

I think your best bet would be to create a new image 260 x 112. Then set up an action to paste every image into it as a new layer (momory permitting if not drag them in) then manualy go through them layer at a time moving the layer image around to suit resizing with the transform tool, save then switch that layer off to reaveal the next one etc.

Er, no.
Unless one just likes complex "solutions" to a simple problem. Read previous replies.

Er, no.

Theres always one who fails to read the post then points out to others that they should read the post!

As I understand it he requires to resise elements of the picture to fit with inthe crop size area I.E. SHRINK OR ENLARGE the image but maintaining the crop size!

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Er, no.
Unless one just likes complex "solutions" to a simple problem. Read previous replies.

Er, no.

Theres always one who fails to read the post then points out to others that they should read the post!

As I understand it he requires to resise elements of the picture to fit with inthe crop size area I.E. SHRINK OR ENLARGE the image but maintaining the crop size!

Kingdom wrote:

Er, no.
Unless one just likes complex "solutions" to a simple problem. Read previous replies.

Er, no.

Theres always one who fails to read the post then points out to others that they should read the post!

As I understand it he requires to resise elements of the picture to fit with inthe crop size area I.E. SHRINK OR ENLARGE the image but maintaining the crop size!

Er.. Before you claim something, it might be wise to actually try yourself what happens if you set the crop tool to a certain size in pixels, and then crop to something smaller. You would have known that the crop tool cannot only crop and resize, but also interpolate to enlarge if necessary. Whatever you do, if you set the crop tool to 260 x 112 px, that’s what you’ll get: 260 x 112 px.

Er.. Before you claim something, it might be wise to actually try yourself what happens if you set the crop tool to a certain size in pixels, and then crop to something smaller. You would have known that the crop tool cannot only crop and resize, but also interpolate to enlarge if necessary. Whatever you do, if you set the crop tool to 260 x 112 px, that’s what you’ll get: 260 x 112 px.

I’m glad this came up. I just had somebody ask me to do those actions for them on a few dozen pictures greatly varying in original size and it worked great. I was done in short order.

As you know, also using "in" for inches makes precisely cropping for picture frame size easy too…not all frames are created equal, so I measure them and adjust the cropping accordingly to be precise. Just a tip for those learning.

FredEx wrote:

Er.. Before you claim something, it might be wise to actually try yourself what happens if you set the crop tool to a certain size in pixels, and then crop to something smaller. You would have known that the crop tool cannot only crop and resize, but also interpolate to enlarge if necessary. Whatever you do, if you set the crop tool to 260 x 112 px, that’s what you’ll get: 260 x 112 px.

I’m glad this came up. I just had somebody ask me to do those actions for them on a few dozen pictures greatly varying in original size and it worked great. I was done in short order.

As you know, also using "in" for inches makes precisely cropping for picture frame size easy too…not all frames are created equal, so I measure them and adjust the cropping accordingly to be precise. Just a tip for those learning.

Do keep in mind that if you set the size in inches, that’s what you’ll get: inches. That means that if most images are 300 ppi, but one image happens to be 72 ppi, you’re in for a nasty surprise… Do not only set inches; set inches and resolution (or set pixels).

FredEx wrote:

Er.. Before you claim something, it might be wise to actually try yourself what happens if you set the crop tool to a certain size in pixels, and then crop to something smaller. You would have known that the crop tool cannot only crop and resize, but also interpolate to enlarge if necessary. Whatever you do, if you set the crop tool to 260 x 112 px, that’s what you’ll get: 260 x 112 px.

I’m glad this came up. I just had somebody ask me to do those actions for them on a few dozen pictures greatly varying in original size and it worked great. I was done in short order.

As you know, also using "in" for inches makes precisely cropping for picture frame size easy too…not all frames are created equal, so I measure them and adjust the cropping accordingly to be precise. Just a tip for those learning.

Do keep in mind that if you set the size in inches, that’s what you’ll get: inches. That means that if most images are 300 ppi, but one image happens to be 72 ppi, you’re in for a nasty surprise… Do not only set inches; set inches and resolution (or set pixels).

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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl

Not a problem, just a mild irritation, for sensible photographers, who would be editing Copies.

Roy G

Do keep in mind that if you set the size in inches, that’s what you’ll get: inches. That means that if most images are 300 ppi, but one image happens to be 72 ppi, you’re in for a nasty surprise… Do not only set inches; set inches and resolution (or set pixels).

Not a problem, just a mild irritation, for sensible photographers, who would be editing Copies.

Kingdom wrote:

wrote in news:1156927713.461561.14230@
74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com:

Hi guys,

I need to crop a couple of hundred photos to 260 x 112 px – but I’m only looking at taking a selection of the pic, and not the whole lot….

I’m looking to set a default size on the crop tool (which Photoshop sortof says it can do it, but I haven’t figured out how)
Also, the pic will need to be resized bigger or smaller, depending which bit I want to chop out – I want to do this easily, and the Zoom In and Zoom Out work just fine for this – except that the crop tool obviously resizes accordingly.

I guess at the end of the day, looking for a key sequence to zoom in and out, while whatever the crop tool takes out of that is 260 x 112
Hoping I’ve made some sense 😉

I think your best bet would be to create a new image 260 x 112. Then set up an action to paste every image into it as a new layer (momory permitting if not drag them in) then manualy go through them layer at a time moving the layer image around to suit resizing with the transform tool, save then switch that layer off to reaveal the next one etc.

Er, no.
Unless one just likes complex "solutions" to a simple problem. Read previous replies.