bstonehouse
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I am looking for some advice on how to correctly use the Crop Tool in Photoshop Elements 7 as this an area that I am not completely sure about.
I am talking about cropping to improve composition or to zoom in rather than cropping to a particular print size. Imagine a hypotheical situation where I have a photo 3000x 2000 pixels for easiness and I want to crop to save the top right hand quarter of the photo only so I want to keep a portion that is 1500x1000 pixels - what is the correct way to do this ?
As I see it there are 4 options :-
1) Use the Crop Tool and 'Use Photo Ration' - if I understand this correctly this resamples the image to be the original size and resolution which is not a good method as it resamples the saved pixels to a larger size.
2) Use the Crop Tool and 'Use Photo Ration' with the Resolution field blank - if I uderstand this correctly this resamples the image to be the original size with a reduced resolution which is also not a good method.
3) Use the Crop Tool with 'No Restriction' This seems to give what is wanted - you end up with a photo that is 1500x1000 pixels with the original resolution. The only downside seems to be that you cannot maintain the ratio of the original easily as this appears to a 'freehand' method to produce any ratio required but no option to set a ration.
4) Use the rectangle tool which seems to work the same as above and has the advantage of using a set ratio.
From these options the Rectangle Tool would be the best method of acheiving a Crop with a fixed Ration and no resampling or changes in Resoluton.
I am interested in how others handle their cropping using PSE and also if I am correct in wanting to end up with a finished photo with no resampling albeit it will be a smaller photo.
I am talking about cropping to improve composition or to zoom in rather than cropping to a particular print size. Imagine a hypotheical situation where I have a photo 3000x 2000 pixels for easiness and I want to crop to save the top right hand quarter of the photo only so I want to keep a portion that is 1500x1000 pixels - what is the correct way to do this ?
As I see it there are 4 options :-
1) Use the Crop Tool and 'Use Photo Ration' - if I understand this correctly this resamples the image to be the original size and resolution which is not a good method as it resamples the saved pixels to a larger size.
2) Use the Crop Tool and 'Use Photo Ration' with the Resolution field blank - if I uderstand this correctly this resamples the image to be the original size with a reduced resolution which is also not a good method.
3) Use the Crop Tool with 'No Restriction' This seems to give what is wanted - you end up with a photo that is 1500x1000 pixels with the original resolution. The only downside seems to be that you cannot maintain the ratio of the original easily as this appears to a 'freehand' method to produce any ratio required but no option to set a ration.
4) Use the rectangle tool which seems to work the same as above and has the advantage of using a set ratio.
From these options the Rectangle Tool would be the best method of acheiving a Crop with a fixed Ration and no resampling or changes in Resoluton.
I am interested in how others handle their cropping using PSE and also if I am correct in wanting to end up with a finished photo with no resampling albeit it will be a smaller photo.
