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" wrote in message
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
