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Photography/Photoshop tips and tricks?
buildingcincinnati:
I'm still trying to figure out how the program works. I've got 7.0.
My question is:
When one of my photos suffers from the "one leg shorter than the other" syndrome and I need to straighten it, I know how to rotate it and crop it and stuff. But then how do I know that I've cropped it to the proper dimensions (4:3 ratio)? Is there a way to see what the dimensions of your photo (pixel-wise) will be when you're...um, I almost said, "Working the box". :-D
In other words, you rotate an image and that means that you'll have to lose some of the image on the edges. I crop them off until I now have a rectangular photo again. I will want to resize to 1600 x 1200 at that point, but say my photo is something like 2400 x 1720 or something.
I hope I made sense. Your help will be appreciated.
jmecklenborg:
Image --> Canvas Size...or use the crop tool. If you change units to percentage then you can maintain a crop ratio or you can just do the math. Use Image --> Image Size to adjust the dpi. Use 72 for the web, 300 for printing.
cincyimages:
I have always had this problem myself. That is why I tend to use Picasa for simple photo editing. It seems to be more efficient than PhotoShop in that regard. Give it a try and tell me what you think.
http://www.picasa.com
Cincinnatus:
Grasscat, here is what I would do:
Open you photo in PS.
Open a new project window and set your desired dimensions. (2400 x 1720, 72 dpi, etc...)
"Drag" your photo over to the blank page.
Control, "T".
While holding the "shift key" shrink your image to the palette size. Start off with your mouse in one of the corners (I use the lower-right)
Crop the original palette size, and press the enter key. You're done.
Sounds like a lot, but this only takes 30 seconds.
PigBoy:
The way I'd do it with your example (getting from 2400 x 1720 to 1600 x 1200):
Resize it to a height of 1200, which gives you 1674 x 1200.
Then, either resize the canvas to 1600 x 1200, or paste the image to a new one of that size.
Adjust the lateral position as desired, since there's a bit of room to decide which parts get cut off.
Looks like everyone's got their own slightly different way of doing it.
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