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Lylandria
Joined: 01 Jun 2012
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Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2012 9:10 pm
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I'm brand new here and I've seen a few posts and suggestions to submit pics for critique using "100% crop" I'm not familiar with this term....does it mean the original image before you cropped it? After you cropped it? Am I on the wrong track completely? Please help! Also any visual examples would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all! |
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ruxpriencdiam
Joined: 07 May 2009
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Location: Third Stone from the Sun
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jeffbanke
Joined: 18 Dec 2005
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Location: www.xlr8photo.com, The real California
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 12:44 am
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As Barry said, make sure you rename the crop so that you don't destroy your original |
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Lylandria
Joined: 01 Jun 2012
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Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:39 pm
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OK, I'll have to try this out over the weekend when I have some time. Haven't used photoshop much! |
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jeffbanke
Joined: 18 Dec 2005
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Location: www.xlr8photo.com, The real California
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:28 am
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| Lylandria wrote: | | OK, I'll have to try this out over the weekend when I have some time. Haven't used photoshop much! |
Best take a weekend and read the manual, it is so powerful, and so many ways to improve (or destroy) an image that it is well worth the time invested in the reading. |
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pharm
Joined: 09 Jul 2006
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Location: Never quite sure
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Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 3:30 pm
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Also, remember, there's no need to zoom in to 100%. Just open the image, grab the crop tool, set it to "fixed size" and make it 500 x 500 pixels, then crop out the area you want. Save with a different name and you're done. (For posting here, it seems to work best for me if I save it as a jpg with a quality level about 9). |
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Mike Price
Joined: 06 Jun 2008
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Location: South Wales
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Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 2:59 pm
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| pharm wrote: | | Also, remember, there's no need to zoom in to 100%. Just open the image, grab the crop tool, set it to "fixed size" and make it 500 x 500 pixels, then crop out the area you want. Save with a different name and you're done. (For posting here, it seems to work best for me if I save it as a jpg with a quality level about 9). |
Hi Perry, how do you set the crop tool to fixed size. I use a similar method to you for cropping to 500px x 500px, but I use the rectangular marquis tool and set that to fixed size 500x500 and go to image>crop, then save under different name.
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pharm
Joined: 09 Jul 2006
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Location: Never quite sure
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Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 7:22 pm
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Hi Perry, how do you set the crop tool to fixed size. |
Hey Mike. You do it the same way. Choose the crop tool, then go to the upper left corner (depending on what version of photoshop you're using) and enter the height and width. Then crop and it'll stay at those settings. |
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Mike Price
Joined: 06 Jun 2008
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Location: South Wales
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Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 5:35 pm
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Thanks Perry. With the marquis ool you can select the number of pixels then either fixed size which crops at the size you select, or fixed ratio which allows you to select any size then it crops the final image to the pixel dimension selected, which mean the output is 500x500 irrespective of the original selection. I wondered if the crop tool was the same.
Mike |
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