Cropping & Sharpening - CS v PSE10

[blondie606]

Hi all

hoping someone can help me out here......I may just be having a blonde moment.....

Been using PSE10 for a year or so , open image & select crop...chose Photo Ratio ( still not sure what that means but it seemed to work, set the DPi to 300 & job's a good'un . I found that using Photo ratio seemed to give a bigger image than using " no contraint option though this might be my imagination ?
Fiddle with image as required , duplicate image , highpass sharpen tweaked till looked about right & saved.

Just got CS6....when cropping there's no " photo ratio " so just set the dpi to 300 & fiddle till how I want it . Edit as required then sharpen as per PS10 .

1st question..... how do I crop correctly in CS6 ?...I don't print loads of stuff just want to crop out un-required parts of the image etc

2nd question.......when sharpening in CS6 the preview box seems to show much harsher sharpening at lower pixel range than PSE10 did ie
I could sharpen an image to 6 pixels in PSE & not get any fringing visible in the preview box....in CS I'm finding that even at 1.6 pixels it shows fringing in the preview box

I'm really hoping the above makes some sort of sense ?

Any advice much appreciated

cheers
Lynne

 

[ricky1980]

1) Ctrl - A then "selection" transform selection. Choose the area you want to keep and click "tick" then edit and crop image.

2) if that's happening you can choose between blend options I.e. overlay, hard light or soft light as well as opacity.

Personally I find the high pass oversharpens or rather it gives the aura quick quickly. So I use the sharpening tool in LIGHTROOM

 

[Rhodese]

I’m no expert by a long chalk so I might have this all wrong.
When I use the crop tool,
Click on the crop tool, on the top bar second from the left is a drop down box. If it’s not been used it probably has “Unconstrained” on it, click on this. It lists many standard formats i.e. 2X3 this is the 35mm film ratio or 1X1 is square. At the bottom but one of the list is size and resolution, click on this to set a size and pixel count to your liking and save it. Now when you use the crop, click on that as your option and pull the crop out on the image, move it about, rotate then hit enter to commit to the crop.

I have no answer to your sharpen preview problem, I just use sharpen or smart sharpen.

Rhodese.