Elementary photoshop question...

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Ok, I'm making my dad a fathers day present of his favourite race horses (which i've photographed).

I have bought a frame with 5 different apertures of varying sizes - Basically how can i get my various shot to shrink? I presumed i could have done it via cropping but can't figure out how.

Any ideas?

Sorry for a ridiculoulsy simple question. :(
 
Crop the picture for the "best result" then reduced the file size when you save or save as
ie check the image size in Cm Px or whatever, then in image > edit > size, set the size you want
 
I'd just use the Crop tool

There are two boxes, one for width the other height - put whatever size you want in there and the crop shape as you drag the mouse IS the size you want

Cleverly, it just stretches/compresses the dpi so you may find your cropped image to 7x5" for example is 432 dpi, whereas an image cropped to 2x2" is 800 dpi (or whatever before you maths geniuses prove those numbers incorrectly related) - none of which matters as it'll print fine

This saves you cropping for 'best result' as it does 2 jobs at once

DD
 
DiddyDave said:
I'd just use the Crop tool

There are two boxes, one for width the other height - put whatever size you want in there and the crop shape as you drag the mouse IS the size you want

Cleverly, it just stretches/compresses the dpi so you may find your cropped image to 7x5" for example is 432 dpi, whereas an image cropped to 2x2" is 800 dpi (or whatever before you maths geniuses prove those numbers incorrectly related) - none of which matters as it'll print fine

This saves you cropping for 'best result' as it does 2 jobs at once

DD
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Thanks Dave (and Cobra),

I have tried doign this but when i go to 'crop', the crop box still just drags to any size, even though I have put "10cm" and "10cm" into the appropriate boxes.

Any ideas?
 
When you've confirmed you want the crop - check with Image/Image Size and you may be pleasantly surprised that it's worked, even if it doesn't 'look' like it onscreen

Failing that - no idea !!! Always works for me :shrug:

DD
 
DiddyDave said:
I'd just use the Crop tool

DD
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:p or you could do it that way :D

I just do it "the other" way ( freehand crop that is ) ( sometimes) then you can get what you want from the image rather than have constraints placed on me when the size doesn't have to be "exact"
 
Alternatively you could go to image size and then enter the size of the image you want and let it resize for you. Don't forget to keep the dpi the same for each image, if you are gong to copy and paste into one document

DD beat me to it
 
Cobra said:
:p or you could do it that way :D

I just do it "the other" way ( freehand crop that is ) ( sometimes) then you can get what you want from the image rather than have constraints placed on me when the size doesn't have to be "exact"
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And that's true too of course - just he did say he has apertures cut in his frame - hence the measured crop suggestion

This is just another of those... 103 ways to skin a cat - type things Photoshop does for you (so helpfully/confusingly)

DD
 
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