Cropping - DPChallenge Forums

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

06/04/2006 06:39:46 PM · #1

When I crop a picture, I want to keep it in a ratio so I can print it later, and have it fit the picture as it would straight out of the camera. Know what I mean? Like after I'm done cropping, it's a rectangle, or square, or whatever, but I want it to be the perfect shape of a picture. Can that be done in PS?

strangeghost

Canon EOS-7D

06/04/2006 06:50:18 PM · #2

You can select whatever crop size you want. Do you mostly print 4x6? Make sure you crop to a ratio of 1.5:1, etc. I use a standard crop of 10x15 (which is 1.5:1, BTW) for the reason that this has the most compatible print sizes at DPCPrints.

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

06/04/2006 06:56:54 PM · #3

But how do you do that? In PS when I hit the crop tool, it just lets me do it freehand and there is no place to type in any commands

yanko

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

06/04/2006 07:01:53 PM · #4

Originally posted by Tom:

But how do you do that? In PS when I hit the crop tool, it just lets me do it freehand and there is no place to type in any commands

When you choose the crop tool you have an option in the top bar called "Style". The default is "normal" which allows you to do it freestyle but if you change that to "Fixed Aspect Ratio" and plug in strangeghost's ratio of 1.5 x 1 in the width and height boxes you'll get the crop you are after when you start using the tool.

Message edited by author 2006-06-04 19:03:02.

faidoi

Pentax K10D

Pentax DA 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 AF

06/04/2006 07:14:37 PM · #5

yanko

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

06/04/2006 07:16:59 PM · #6

My bad, I was thinking of the selection tool using it to crop the image to a specific ratio.

strangeghost

Canon EOS-7D

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

06/04/2006 07:25:20 PM · #7

Faidoi, that's such a useful image that I can never find when I want it, so I faved it just now!

Rebecca

Nikon D80

Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX

06/04/2006 07:31:41 PM · #8

In older versions of PS, crop doesn't have a handy menu (that I've ever seen), so I use the rectangular marquee, set the options to Constrained Aspect Ratio (one of the tabs by the Navigation tool box) and dump in my numbers (1/1.25 for 8x10s, 1/1.5 for 8x12 - there's a good list in Sellers Tips at DPC Prints), select my photo area, new layer via cut, discard the background, and then crop to the size of the visible photo.

Message edited by author 2006-06-04 19:33:39.

06/04/2006 08:04:55 PM · #9

Thanks guys!