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Ditchrat
12-16-2005, 04:56 PM
He is my ?, when I am editing my photos I am using the 4x6 crop tool. My assumption is that this would result in a final picture at 4x6. This is not the case. I would like to keep it at a high megapixal, but for it to be 4x6. Any suggestions on how?
chromefinder
12-17-2005, 12:23 PM
Enter the height and width in the options bar before making a crop selection to crop to a specific aspect ratio--DON'T add a number in the resolution field.

Once you are satisfied with your cropping, save your file using the Save As. (Do NOT overwrite your original file as you may need it later in case something went wrong.)

Remember if your file was originally a .jpg, resave it as a .jpg format with the quality setting at 12, maximum.


Read up on Digital Photo Aspect Ratios.
Fishnuts
12-17-2005, 01:53 PM
I'd say depends on what you want to do.

I use a mix of the "image size" function and the crop tool set at a 4:3 fixed ratio, not a specific size. What kind of resolution are you looking for? If you want to print photos as high as possible, use "image size" and enter the 4" X 6" dimensions you want. This'll increase your resolution of the image to whatever, without any loss of pixels.

If you're just trying to crop down photos and maintain good quality screen images, it's like chromefinder said- save a JPG the second time at max quality. If you know you are going to be working on an image a lot I think it's worth saving in a lossless format like TIFF, or the PSD photoshop format.

What happens is I'll select the area of the image I want and not worry about the total size, just that it's a 4:3 ratio (might depend on your camera) After that I do the "image size" to end up with the final pixel size and resolution I want.

If you record your actions, you can set up a quick way to resize images. If you know they're all going to end up the same size, that is. I made one that automatically takes the photos and makes several sizes of them from 200x100 up to 800X600.

Harder to explain than I thought maybe it'll help though.