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 07/18/2006 07:17:41 AM · #1
I keep hearing the terms '50% crop' and '100% crop', what do they mean?
 07/18/2006 07:29:49 AM · #2
Well to me they mean the following -

100% crop means the entire image from the camera....nothing has been cropped off the image.

50% crop means half the image...the rest has been cropped off.
 07/18/2006 07:30:24 AM · #3
I use that often, and as far as I know, at 100% crop, to me means the image had nothing cut off of it, essentially being resized, though some say it's a crop viewed at actual pixel size on screen. A 50% crop, to me, would mean that when I open an image in PS, and view best fit on screen, then zooom in until I am at 50%, and crop that area of the image - a section of the image, viewed at 50%.

I could be wrong, I usually am anyway.
 07/18/2006 07:31:28 AM · #4
Maybe 2 wrongs make a right then. (or is that a left?)
 07/18/2006 07:32:45 AM · #5
100% crop just means cropping and posting without resizing the original. So if I have a 2000x3000 pixel image, if I crop out a 640x640 part of it, I can post it without any resizing. If I take a bigger chunk, I'll have to resize it before posting, and I'm no longer at 100%.
A 50% crop can mean either a crop resized to 50% or a crop of half an image. I see both uses of the term. The "crop of half the image" seems to be the most common interpretation, IMO, but there' really no consistency.
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