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squawk · Joined: 10 Oct 2009 Posts: 29

Hey guys.
I'm bashing my head against a wall here because I cannot for the life of me figure out a 100% crop.
The method described in the "how to post" sticky will get you close, but not exact.

Let me expand on this. First up I take a full size image, resize it to 500 pixels on the longest side and upload. Fine so far, thats the full image at the correct size.

Now, I load up the image in, say, photoshop and view the image at 100%. I crop the "important" section, as it were, save it at 500px along the long side, and post. Do I have a 100% crop? No, I don't, I have a 500px version of a 100% crop that may or may not have been 500px when I cropped it.

I'm pretty good at guessing 500px on my monitor simply going by eye and so it's hard to tell the difference. What I can't figure out is how to tell photoshop to crop 500 pixels.

The steps I would like to undertake are

1. View at actual pixel size (full size)
2. Setup a selection that is 500 pixels by 500 pixels
3. Move the selection to the desired location
4. Crop to the selection
5. Save the image.

Instead, the method that I *think is described on this forum is

1. View at actual pixel size
2. Selection tool the area you feel is important
3. Crop to the selection
4. Resize the image to 500px along the longest side
5. Save the image (4 and 5 may be combined).

Can someone help me out. I'm a photoshop noob, tried playing with it for a while and a fair bit of googling, havn't found the answer.

hhltdave5 · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 8:02 am

Try this article on how to do it. It is somewhat clearer than the sticky post.

http://submit.shutterstock.com/newsletter/109/article1.html

squawk · Joined: 10 Oct 2009 Posts: 29

Perfect, just what I was after.

pharm · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 8997 Location: Never quite sure

The sticky is a bit sticky. More of a quagmire (sorry Annette (graphicphoto)) actually.