Image Sizing

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MAlaska
Mar 9, 2009
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CS4 Is not allowing me to size the images as I would like.

I have PSD files that I need to size at- in this instance- to 11" Wide X 8.5" tall. CS4 will not let me do this.

When I try to size the image to fit the size I need one dimension gets thrown off. As I do not want to distort the image, I try to crop. (Cutting part of the image that has to be sacrifised to fit the size needed.) That will not work either. CS4 will not allow that change.

Once again what should be a simple task has become a miserable CS4 experience. Hours of reading instructions and watching videos is of no help.

Sizing an image to a given set of measurments should not be so difficult (and so far impossible).
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Freeagent
Mar 9, 2009
Set the uncropped side in image size, then go to canvas size to crop the other.
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Geoff_K_Jackson
Mar 9, 2009
What Freeagent said is correct, you need to use the crop tool. If you are working in inches rather than centimeters, you should make sure in Preferences, Units & Rulers, that rulers is set to inches. Then when using the crop tool you type in 11 in the width box and 8.5 in the height box, PS will automatically select inches. All you need to do is drag out the crop box, right click, crop, and your image is the correct size and proportion.
It only takes a few seconds to do this.
Geoff.
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John Joslin
Mar 9, 2009
You don’t need to do anything in Preferences.

You just type the unit after the number (for example 6.5 in or 16.5 cm) in the Height and Width boxes.
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Geoff_K_Jackson
Mar 9, 2009
John, I agree that you don’t need to change preferences but if someone always works in inches, changing preferences can save a bit of time in the future if you have a lot of images to work on.

Geoff.
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John Joslin
Mar 9, 2009
True. I always set my prefs to the units I normally work in and leave it that way.
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Curvemeister
Mar 10, 2009
From the title it sounds like you may have got hold of the wrong tool, for example Image Size will not do what you want. The Crop Tool is the tool you want to use for this.

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