How to "Preserve" my cropped image areas?

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ShayGaghe
Oct 30, 2007
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Hi,
Im using CS2.

When cropping an image you lose your ability to change your mind and retrieve the previous un-cropped size.

There is option to "hide" to cropped area but it doesn’t help retrieving the previous size of the canvas.

Thanks
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Phosphor
Oct 30, 2007
Use your Rectangular Marquee tool to define a potential crop region.

Then click on the "Add vector mask" icon at the bottom of the Layers Palette.

Now, if you want to move the mask but keep the underlying image in place, click on the little "chain" icon on the layer to unlink the mask from the image. Click again between the 2 thumbnails in the layer to relink them.
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BLUDVLZ
Oct 30, 2007
You could also just reduce your canvas size. As long as you don’t have a "Background" layer, the additional image will remain outside the visible canvas area.
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Phosphor
Oct 30, 2007
‘sup, BLU?

Long time, no parlez!

Got any new or revised manifestos for us?

🙂
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BLUDVLZ
Oct 30, 2007
Hey Phos,

My first "down time" in over a year. Took a new gig overseeing the creative department for a group of 13 newspapers… been overhauling the department and their processes ever since.

And yes, I do have a couple manifestos swirling around in the back of my head, but nothing I’ve put fingers to keyboard yet.
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Ronald Keller
Oct 31, 2007
There is option to "hide" to cropped area but it doesn’t help retrieving the previous size of the canvas.

Yes it does; Image > Reveal All

Regards,

Ronald
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dave_milbut
Nov 1, 2007
hi blu! nice to see you!
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Lawrence_Hudetz
Nov 1, 2007
Reveal All doesn’t restore the cropped area.

In fact, you cannot use the Delete/Hide Radio buttons without having a layer first. Any layer will do. Otherwise, it is grayed out. But Reveal still doesn’t work.

Huh?

No guidance in Help, of course.

Back to the drawing boards
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Lawrence_Hudetz
Nov 1, 2007
Back from the Drawing Boards.

I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that you convert first to Smart Object.

The bad news is my saved file grew to 3.5X+ the original size just by doing that. From 93Meg to 330M.

Edit: You can do better file size wise by saving a cropped copy along with the original, the sum of the two files will be less than 2X the original size.
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Ronald Keller
Nov 1, 2007
Reveal All doesn’t restore the cropped area

?

It definitely does on my computer!
Why else would one use hiding instead of deleting while cropping… Of course this will also produce a larger file because the cropped area is retained…
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Mathias_Vejerslev
Nov 1, 2007
It does not restore cropped areas (hence the term ‘crop’?), but it will reveal any data outside the canvas, if such are present (which it can be either by moving parts of a layer out there, or if you’ve previously shrunk your canvas).
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Lawrence_Hudetz
Nov 2, 2007
Without any layers, my delete/hide option is grayed out and of course Reveal All doesn’t respond, although not grayed out.

Haven’t tried a canvas, but why? If I crop a Dupe and save it, the combo is less space than a Smart object file cropped and hidden.

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