Cropping question

[Scarecrow]

Currently using CS3 quite happily, but have stumbled upon a situation that I can't find the answer for with regard to cropping.

How do you make a crop to a specific size at 100%?

Let me expand. I want to crop a block measuring 300x200 pixels from an image. Entering these figures in the size boxes of the crop tool results in a crop of the right dimensions, but the image is being resized to meet these figures if the original selection is larger or smaller than required. What I want to do is restrict the crop selection process once the selected area reaches the 300x200 limit I am looking for.

Reading PS help, it says if the resolution box is left blank, the crop will not be resized, but I am not finding this to be the case.

Any ideas?

 

[EOS_JD]

Zoom into your image till it reads 100%. Select the rectangular marquee and enter the size as 300px x 200px - there's a drop down box hat i think says Normal; ratio and size (might be something else but should make sense when you see it) - you want size. Click on the image and the selection will appear. Move the selection to suit and go to image>crop

Done.

 

[Scarecrow]

Thanks for that EOS. And there was me thinking you should be able to do that with the crop tool rather than the marquee tool!

I also found that you don't need to be zoomed in at 100% as you suggest. As you zoom in and out, the size of the marqee selection changes as appropriate.

 

[EOS_JD]

Yes you are right. Set the size and the zoom preview doesn't matter! Woops - I use 100% because you can see better for a small crop like that.

The crop tool resizes as you say.

Glad I could help.