Re: Crop tool interpolates?


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"Dave" <d@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:36:17 -0800, "just bob" <kilbyfan@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

I need some basic understanding of the crop tool in CS. It seems to
interpolate when I crop. How to you tell the thing to crop at 100%?

Also I would love to know for doing web images how I can specify say
800x600
pixels and be presented with a rectangle at that size and ratio ready to
crop at 100%.

When I crop in ACR at least I know it's a 100% crop, and I will
painstakingly resize the crop window until I see the required dimensions
in
the info window before I move it to the position I want.

I hope I'm just over thinking this but not sure what is going on!

Thanks for your tips and tricks on this.



Hi Bob

On the task bar (when the crop tool is opened) simply fill the wanted
info into the width Height and Resolution blocks.

Dave

what he said
select crop tool
in boxes at the top
leave resolution blank if you do not want resampling to occur
fill in 800x600 in the dimensions boxes MAKE SURE TO WRITE IN PX NOT
INCHES or your comp will freeze up

Hi, First, thanks for your help.

Can you tell me what the step is after your last one? If you want me to drag
a box across the image, that is not what I want to do because it will resize
the image when I accept the crop.

For years I have done exactly as you describe and the result is the still
the same: The crop tool still allows me to drag and resize the crop box when
instead it should be locked at 800x600 pixels. Typing in W 800px H 600px
seems to only control the ratio, not the size of the crop box. I hope that
makes sense.

Here is my workflow:

I open an image at say 3000x2000 pixels

I choose the Crop tool off the toolbar

In the Width box I type 800px

In the Height box I type 600px

I clear the field for Resolution

At this point I would like a crop box at 800x600 to automatically appear on
the screen so I can move it around the image to the desired location. But
instead it seems my only option is to drag a box across the image which
forces a resize.

Many thanks for trying to help me understand this.


.

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