In Photoshop, what size do you edit/crop in?????

[JABACo]

In Photoshop, what size do you edit/crop in. I print a fair amount of 13x19's but I also submit my shots to an online printing service for potential buyers. I don't if I should cropped my shots 3x5 or 8x10 or 13x19. What size do most of you edit/crop and why.

Thanks for any assistance.

Bradley

[cgratti]

In Photoshop, what size do you edit/crop in. I print a fair amount of 13x19's but I also submit my shots to an online printing service for potential buyers. I don't if I should cropped my shots 3x5 or 8x10 or 13x19. What size do most of you edit/crop and why.

Thanks for any assistance.

Bradley

Mostly 5"X7", to me its a perfect size for pictures, you can see alot of the detail and its not too big. Sometimes I crop to 8"X10", but 995 of the time it 5X7".

[robertwgross]

Rather than Photoshop, I use Corel Photopaint.

I never edit or crop with any dimensions. The image is in pixels only. When I print, I choose the paper size and let the print driver figure out any scaling necessary. In some cases, I intentionally let some of the image fall through the margin, which works out the same as cropping, yet I don't have to change my image file to do that.

So, my digital image files are 18MB up to 150MB, depending on whether they came from my digital camera or scanned from film. That ought to be plenty enough pixels to print to any size paper that I have up to and including 13x19 inches.

---Bob Gross---

[Volatile]

You can crop to any size, just don't crop *and* force a dpi. Then the picture will be resampled. It's easier to think of image size in pixels.

[rocketscience]

hi Volitile, do you mean - do not enter a resolution when cropping, leave it blank, or DO enter a resolution?

thanks.

[Zeke]

Rather than Photoshop, I use Corel Photopaint.

You poor man. If you ever want someone to talk to about it...

[Scottes]

Rather than Photoshop, I use Corel Photopaint.

You poor man. If you ever want someone to talk to about it...

Though I haven't used it in years, Corel PhotoPaint was a *damned* good piece of software. I'm sure it's missing Photoshop's top end stuff, but it's no slouch. It's very under-rated due to poor marketing. Back when I used Photopaint it was easily the second-best piece of image editing software out there (for the PC at least). Judging from current reviews I just read I'd say that it's still an excellent product.

[robertwgross]

Though I haven't used it in years, Corel PhotoPaint was a *damned* good piece of software. I'm sure it's missing Photoshop's top end stuff, but it's no slouch. It's very under-rated due to poor marketing. Back when I used Photopaint it was easily the second-best piece of image editing software out there (for the PC at least). Judging from current reviews I just read I'd say that it's still an excellent product.

Scottes, I agree. Way back in 1998, Corel was a competitor of Adobe, and Photo-Paint was close to PhotoShop. Like a lot of big programs like that, you have to invest a lot of personal time in learning it. Once learned, it works fine. Since then, Adobe has built in much more in terms of automation, so if you are doing some graphical heavy lifting, it is now the program of choice. For those of us who never edit more than 50-100 images per day, old Photo-Paint works fine.

---Bob Gross---