Crop photos to a preset size?

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My Names Nobody
May 29, 2006
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Hello,

Is there a simple way in Photoshop CS to or another simple software that will give you a easy preset crop size so you can crop say 1280 x 1024 or 6" x 4" sections out of large 8.1 Mega pixel photos?
Either to use the photos, or to send them in to have printed by a photo processing place?

Does anyone have a simple software to do this?
Is there a easy way to preset the crop size in Photoshop CS, rather than readjusting the crop each time on each photo?

Thanks
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Drew
May 29, 2006
Hello,

Is there a simple way in Photoshop CS to or another simple software that will give you a easy preset crop size so you can crop say 1280 x 1024 or 6" x 4" sections out of large 8.1 Mega pixel photos? Either to use the photos, or to send them in to have printed by a photo processing place?

Does anyone have a simple software to do this?
Is there a easy way to preset the crop size in Photoshop CS, rather than readjusting the crop each time on each photo?

You could selected ‘Fixed Size’ in the selection tool options and that would make a selection that same size. You can do this in CS, but I think most any version of Photoshop will let you make a fixed sized selection which you can copy/paste into a new document.
MN
My Names Nobody
May 29, 2006
"Drew" wrote in message
Hello,

Is there a simple way in Photoshop CS to or another simple software that will give you a easy preset crop size so you can crop say 1280 x 1024 or 6" x 4" sections out of large 8.1 Mega pixel photos? Either to use the photos, or to send them in to have printed by a photo processing place?

Does anyone have a simple software to do this?
Is there a easy way to preset the crop size in Photoshop CS, rather than readjusting the crop each time on each photo?

You could selected ‘Fixed Size’ in the selection tool options and that would make a selection that same size. You can do this in CS, but I think most any version of Photoshop will let you make a fixed sized selection which you can copy/paste into a new document.

Thank you

That works perfect.

Does anyone have any short cuts for converting pixels to inches?
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Drew
May 29, 2006
Thank you

That works perfect.

Does anyone have any short cuts for converting pixels to inches?

In the ‘fixed size’ selection option box you could put.. for example "1024 px" -or- "5 in" I think…without the quotes of course. That works in CS and I would imagine in other versions too
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usenetzen
Jun 2, 2006
Hope I’m not missing something:

select the crop tool.
on the toolbar, in the box marked "width", enter "6 in" (without the quote marks)
in the box marked "height", enter "4 in". in the box marked "resolution" put "300"

or whatever values you want.

These values will remain there until you clear them.

You can also set a preset tool by clicking the little down arrow beside the crop tool icon on the toolbar. Click the arrow in the upper right corner of the box that opens and select "new tool preset", then name it appropriately.

Whenever you want to call it up again, just select the little down arrow and the new tool will appear in the dropdown box.

PS: if you want pixels, enter "1200 px" or whatever value you want.

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Drew wrote:
Thank you

That works perfect.

Does anyone have any short cuts for converting pixels to inches?

In the ‘fixed size’ selection option box you could put.. for example "1024 px" -or- "5 in" I think…without the quotes of course. That works in CS and I would imagine in other versions too

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