4 Replies Latest reply: Mar 28, 2012 11:14 AM by Tai Luxon RSS

    The new Crop Tool

    Wight-Walker

      In CS5, you can click on the Front Image button which sets the final size of the cropped image.

       

      Try as I may, I cannot get the crop tool in CS6beta to work as I would like it.

       

      There is no equivalent 'Front Image' facility that I can find that sets the crop size.  If I enter the crop size of the image into two boxes & crop it doesn't actually crop to those sizes.

       

      The only work around that I've found, is to ensure that crop tool is set to Original Ratio to maintain the crop ration, crop to where I want th efinal image to be & then do an Image Resize back to original file size which is extremely long winded.

       

      Have I missed something here?

       

      Basically, what I want to do is set the crop size to the size of the opened image, then trim the image so that it is retained at the original image size.

        • 1. Re: The new Crop Tool
          Wight-Walker Community Member

          OK - I've found it.  Obvious when you see it but it was there - right click & select Use Front Image Size & Reduction; not quite as straight forward as in CS5

           

          What confused things was, that as you adjusted the crop, the width/height pixel values changed giving the impression that the final size was reducing!

           

          Also, what's annoying is that when processing a JPG file this way, you now can't save it back directly as JPG UNLESS you flatten the image.

          • 2. Re: The new Crop Tool
            Tai Luxon Adobe Employee

            If the "Delete Cropped Pixels" option is checked then a flat image will remain flat after cropping, and you won't need to flatten to re-save a JPG.

             

            The "Front Image" functionality can also be found in the source popup inside of the Size & Resolution dialog.

            • 3. Re: The new Crop Tool
              PixbyTed Community Member

              Yes, the delete cropped pixels option is there, but why would you ever want to do it? One of the best features of the new crop tool is that it is non-destructive.

              • 4. Re: The new Crop Tool
                Tai Luxon Adobe Employee

                Retaining image data outside of the canvas requires that the image data be on a non-background layer, and the JPEG file format does not support layers. It follows that if you are saving the file as a JPEG, the data outside the crop is going to have to be thrown away. So if you know you are just going to save the file as a JPEG, checking "Delete Cropped Pixels" speeds up your workflow. There may be other cases where you know you don't need those pixels and want to delete them to make your file smaller. It really depends on your workflow, but we do hope that more people will become aware of the ability to retain those pixels and take advantage of the less destructive workflow.