Comments on: Cropping to an exact size in Photoshop, ultimate Photoshop crop tutorial

By: Jahid Babu

Jahid Babu — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:43:38 +0000

Suddenly I found a wonderful informative and helpful tutorial. Thanks.

By: Colin Smith

Colin Smith — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 23:33:37 +0000

In reply to Bruce. You can use artboards

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 21:22:43 +0000

My problem with cropping is to take a series of astrophotographs and crop to a standard number of pixels (V and H) to make a new picture file having only the astronomical image of interest. I need a consistent (and non changing) picture dimensions so photo stacking software functions correctly.

I do have developed a 12 point procedure to do this operation by making a white rectangle of the desired dimensions and saving it. It remains on the screen. I open the pictures to be cropped, drag the white rectangle into the picture, open magic marker and place its cursor outside the white rectangle area, select the white rectangle blending options and select ‘multiply’ to make a white rectangular frame, then select inverse (ctrl-shift-I), drag the white rectanglar outline to frame the part of the astro image desired, select crop, flatten image, and save.

Is there a simpler method?

By: Colin Smith

Colin Smith — Wed, 12 May 2021 03:07:00 +0000

In reply to sharon. Yes, Hold down the alt/option key.

By: Angus

Angus — Thu, 06 May 2021 12:18:56 +0000

Hi There
I am dealing with a large number of images from suppliers for a ecommerce site that us being currently built. With that in mind batch processing images is definitely preferred. In order for the website to deal with product images that aren’t square, the developer has requested that there be a 10% clipping space around the product within the overall image, to allow for them to code a cover for the area not used in the space . Is there any way when resizing image through the Image Processor that I can ensure that products don’t appear too close to the edge of the 800×800 pixel area. Would i need to set up an action and somehow ask for the image to be 720×720 and a canvas to be 800×800 for example. Your advise would be greatly appreciated.

By: sharon

sharon — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:06:49 +0000

Great information and help hugely. Is there a way to crop from the middle please so when I have different size images I can set an action up? Thank you

By: Chris Killingsworth

Chris Killingsworth — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 14:39:59 +0000

Thanks AT, you are correct. The user interface in PS is un-intuitive. All they needed to do was to make a crop option that doesn’t resample the image, and instead take the settings as is. But for whatever reason, they chose to have ‘crop’ always resample.

By: ralph.perry.home

ralph.perry.home — Sat, 23 May 2020 19:05:10 +0000

Great tutorial! I’ve been using PS for years, and I learned a lot about cropping that I didn’t know.
My problem is that I want to crop an image to a specific size, but I want to crop in from the right and up from the bottom. If I just crop to a specified size, I assume the tool would crop evenly from all four sides.

By: Colin Smith

Colin Smith — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 22:18:51 +0000

In reply to Dennis W. Rowntree. yes, you can crop to any aspect ratio you like

By: Dennis W. Rowntree

Dennis W. Rowntree — Sat, 25 Apr 2020 16:12:22 +0000

I’m not sure I understand some of the questions and answers and perhaps someone has already given the answer.

I understand that Photoshop can crop with “given” aspect ratios of 1:1, 4:5, 5:7, 2:3 or 16:9. My main question is can I create “my own” aspect sizes, for example, 7:9?

Often I am working on a canvas that has different aspect ratios to what is normally given. Hence, I want to be able to create my own unique aspect ratio sizes.

Is this possible with Photoshop?

This is important for me because when I am doing oil painting and working on canvas that is 70cm x 90cm I would like to crop the image to 7:9 so that it is easier for me to sketch out in paint where the image would be located on my canvas.

Many thanks.