Proportional Croping

[Jonas]

Dear all,

I wonder if someone has experince the same issue, how do you do croping while preserving the proportions of the original image? Is there a easy way to do it?

Thanks,
Jonas

[cmM]

when you crop in ps, if you click on "Front image", it will maintain the image proportions, but I think it will also upsize to the original image size.

[Rob Larsen]

In PS, use the crop tool and set your desired proportions in the width and height box. Add "in," "cm," or "px" behind the numbers to specify your units. Leave the resolution field empty if you only want to change the print dimensions and not the effective resolution.

Note: DSLR images uses a 2:3 ratio. So using 4in x 6in as your HxW ratio will maintain original proportions.

[evilenglishman]

the easiest way in PSCS is:

1. Select the square marquee tool.
2. In the top bar set style to 'fixed aspect ratio'
and set width to 1 and height to 1.5

3. Then just click/drag over the area you want.
4. In the top menu select image/crop.

For landscape oriented images, click on the arrows between the width and height boxes and it will switch the dimensions.

[Jonas]

Dear Chris, Rob and EvilEnglisman, thanks a lot for your help it does work! I enjoyed myself immensely following your advices. Previously I was doing it thru gridline and was calculating the correct width/height thru the aspect ratio manually.