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1. Re: How do you crop square 1000x1000 px
Gareth Milligan-4aZolh Aug 7, 2011 1:57 PM (in response to margieannejulie)Select the crop tool, in the options bar enter width & height to 1000px set resolution, then draw out your crop area, accept or cancel the crop from the options bar.
Hope this helps
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2. Re: How do you crop square 1000x1000 px
c.pfaffenbichler Aug 7, 2011 11:51 PM (in response to Gareth Milligan-4aZolh)And if you want to avoid resampling use the Rectangular Marquee Tool instead and set it to Style: Fixed Size (1000px by 1000px) and after making the Selection use Image > Crop.
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3. Re: How do you crop square 1000x1000 px
margieannejulie Aug 8, 2011 1:07 AM (in response to c.pfaffenbichler)Sorry that it didn'work. Original size is w 1000 and h 666. Changing 666 to 1000 changes 1000 back to a smaller number. So I selected the
rectangular marquee, enter fixed size, but the marquee goes automatically around the edge of the frame. (which is rectangular).
Of course I could modify it with the subtract option, is that what I am supposed to, getting a ruler?
doing it with cropping tool gets a more square size, but much smaller 662 X 652. Of course I could start from a much bigger size (I do have those)
but before I do that, did I do anything wrong with the marquee?
thanks
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4. Re: How do you crop square 1000x1000 px
c.pfaffenbichler Aug 8, 2011 1:18 AM (in response to margieannejulie)I mis-understood »cropping« to imply you wanted to get the part out of a larger image.
In this case however you could use Image > Image Size and turn off »Constrain Proportions« – or am I still misunderstanding what you are trying to do?
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5. Re: How do you crop square 1000x1000 px
margieannejulie Aug 8, 2011 3:23 AM (in response to c.pfaffenbichler)Thanks for staying around.
Ideally, I would like to keep as much of the content as possible, like not cropping. I tryed the marquee, fixed style. 1000 x 1000, uncheck constrain,
believe it or not, the marquee turns into a small circle when you release it. I did notice that I am in the new selection. ( the first)
If I just can't figure it , I still have the cropping tool which unfortunatly crops part of the image, but this really would be the desperate way.
With the cropping tool I leave the sizes in the tool bar empty because If I understand correctly, they refer to a printed doc.
Croping tool, uncheck proportions, gives the tipycal distorted look.
Cropping tool, check proportions, we are back to the main problem: changing both h and w in the image size changes back the first,
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6. Re: How do you crop square 1000x1000 px
Tai Lao Aug 8, 2011 3:26 AM (in response to margieannejulie)margieannejulie wrote:
…Ideally, I would like to keep as much of the content as possible, like not cropping
If you have a rectangle image—as you do—and you want to end up with a square image without "empty", transparent portions, you are going to have to lose part of the picture. Period. The same goes for when you start with a rectangular image and want to put it inside an oval, circle or triangle.
Essentially, you have a rectangular sheet of dough and a square cookie cutter.
I just don't get what is so hard for you to understand about that, and I fear that there's something else you may not be telling us.
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7. Re: How do you crop square 1000x1000 px
c.pfaffenbichler Aug 8, 2011 3:27 AM (in response to Tai Lao)Maybe seeing the image and knowing why it needs to be square would help us understand the issue better.
Maybe this is a case where Edit > Content-Aware Scale could be of use.
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8. Re: How do you crop square 1000x1000 px
margieannejulie Aug 10, 2011 6:54 AM (in response to Tai Lao)Here is how you can actually keep both sides 1000 px each: open up a new folder in PS. Give it 1000 px by 1000 px size.
Slide the pic to be cropped into the empty folder, enlarge it with Cmd T by the corner, better click f first.
I was actually hiding that from you guys
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9. Re: How do you crop square 1000x1000 px
Tai Lao Aug 10, 2011 7:25 AM (in response to margieannejulie)margieannejulie wrote:
Here is how you can actually keep both sides 1000 px each: open up a new folder in PS. Give it 1000 px by 1000 px size.
Slide the pic to be cropped into the empty folder, enlarge it with Cmd T by the corner, better click f first.
I was actually hiding that from you guys
That distorts the heck out of your image, the same as up-sampling to 1000x1000 with Constrain Proportions UNchecked—which understood you did not want to do.
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10. Re: How do you crop square 1000x1000 px
ll.price Aug 10, 2011 9:33 PM (in response to Tai Lao)I hope we are talking about reducing the number of pixels of an image by cropping some of them away from a rectangle shape to make the square.
Make sure that the menu Window > Options (near the bottom) is checked "on." It would be much easier to have that tool bar available, as it allows you to set the width, height, and other crop options when the Crop tool is selected.Launch your rulers if they are not on, View > Rulers
Make sure the rulers display pixels instead of some other units (inches for example).
Settings are under PS Preference > Units and Rulers, but the shortcut is easier, on a Mac I press Control key and mouse up and click the ruler to find the unit options. Pick pixels to make the crop easier.
Before you crop to a specific dimension, change settings in that Options bar, "1000" width and "1000" in the height field.
If the box adds "in" after your 1000, make sure to change "in" (inches) to "px" for pixels. Pixel-size image are typically used for the web or screen viewing, so you can add 72 (or whatever number is requested for resolution).
If you only have a couple of images to crop, you can just fill in the width and hold down Shift-key while you crop to get a square shape.
After you are through with the crops, be sure to "Clear" the entries, so those dimensions don't make you crazy when you try to crop other dimensions some other day.



