CS5 resizing problem.

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Hi All - I have regularly been resizing my images to A3 by creating a new page to the correct size and dpi, colouring the background black and then dragging my actual image onto the black background and then resizing the dragged image to give a black border. This works fine and I like this way of doing things, but I hjave just tried to carry out this process but it won't let me resize my dragged imaged. Could I have changed something by mistake in the settings somewhere??

I'm stuck. :thinking:
 
i occasionally get weird occurrences in cs5 - find i have to shut it down and start it up again and then its fine

with regard to resizing though --- why not just adjust the canvas size of the current document instead of creating a new one
 
How are you resizing the photo? Free transform? What happens now when you try to do it? I assume you're talking about Photoshop?
 
I've tried restarting PS but still no joy. I can resize the image which works fine, but I like to have a black border and I find creating a new black page so to speak at full A3 size, I can easily visually see what the finished image will print out like.
I've been just holding down the shift key to keep the scale and dragging one corner to the size I want. Now though, the image on top of the black background doesn't have the small squares in each corner to grab hold of and resize.
 
Sussed it!! I had unknowingley unticked the "show transform controls" box at the top!!:bonk::bonk:

Cheers for the help. I'm going to sit down now in a dark room for a while! :thumbs:
 
Ah, didn't event know that was there! You can always get to free transform with Ctrl-T (or Mac Cmd-T).
 
wippers said:
I've been just holding down the shift key to keep the scale and dragging one corner to the size I want.
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That method of resizing works fine, Gareth, but it won't get you the best quality (if that matters to you). Best way to enlarge that I know of (without using plugins like Genuine Fractals etc) is to interpolate in incremental steps using bicubic smoother. If you set it up as an action it's dead easy to do. Go to Image size, set the size to 110% using Bicubic Smoother then apply... rinse and repeat as many times as necessary until you get close to the image size you want. Then input the exact size (or even finish by dragging as you do at the moment). Better result than resizing in one step and better still than just dragging to fit a canvas. :)
 
The incremental way of resizing was only really applicable in older versions of PS - no need for it from CS4 upwards....
 
DekHog said:
The incremental way of resizing was only really applicable in older versions of PS - no need for it from CS4 upwards....
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Seriously? I'll be damned....!

How did they change it?
 
I've never tried dragging to resize, so couldn't really answer that one, but would imagine it works exactly the same way as using the dialogue boxes to resize, less the options available in there.

Apparently Adobe were well aware of resizing 'issues' (read: the 3rd party plug in competition) and totally rewrote the resizing code for CS4, and enhanced it even more for CS5....
 
wippers said:
Does this mean that dragging to resize doesn't affect the quality in CS5?
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Well by just dragging you're not using CS5's interpolation (Bicubic smoother) so I would imagine that the quality isn't the same... I guess the thing to do is a comparative test using both methods and see how much difference it makes and if it's worth your while switching methods. :shrug:

DekHog said:
Apparently Adobe were well aware of resizing 'issues' (read: the 3rd party plug in competition) and totally rewrote the resizing code for CS4, and enhanced it even more for CS5....
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I don't know whether I'm pleased that I don't have to do the incremental thing any more or annoyed that I've been wasting my time for the past couple of years! :lol:
Thanks for the sage advice though!
 
DekHog said:
The incremental way of resizing was only really applicable in older versions of PS - no need for it from CS4 upwards....
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Yes, they changed things a while back now, even Genuine Fractals offers little real world advantage now.
 
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