Photoshop 7 question.

[JABACo]

Is there any way using PS7 that one could isolate a certain part of a picture for print without having any pixel loss and not crop it? Just curious if this could happen.

Bradley

[Jon]

If you isolate part of a picture you are, by definition, both reducing the available pixels and cropping the picture. If you were asking about something else, could you please elaborate?

[JABACo]

If you isolate part of a picture you are, by definition, both reducing the available pixels and cropping the picture. If you were asking about something else, could you please elaborate?

Jon,

I fully understand what your saying.

Right now it's a theory that I haven't fully thought out, but. My 10D takes a 11x17 shot. Let's take football picture for example. The subject is the runner, shooting landscape style, and say the subject is now completely centered on the shot. Can PS7 isolate the area with the runner being centered and print only what I select. The reason, and of course I'm lazy, is I do 13x19 photos on my Epson 2200. If I crop the shot, then sometimes I have to build the cropped area back up for it to print and be presented correctly.

I was wondering if there was a simpler way of reducing out some of the workflow. Remember, I'm tad lazy and if there is a better way.

Thanks

Bradley

[tim]

Would you not just copy and paste into a new image?

[timmyquest]

http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=34&sid=11863e3033952c9960b51cc872d 179cb

[pdrow]

I'm not sure what the difference is, if you have to isolate it by selecting, you might as well crop. There is not difference in the step. In the crop window type in that you want the size to be 13 X 19 inches. Type in the desired resolution. Select and hit enter. Or youcan click on image size and type the info in there. You won't lose much at all that way. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are asking, but I am guessing you just want the easiest way to print.

pam

[JABACo]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you are asking, but I am guessing you just want the easiest way to print.

pam

pam, your not misunderstanding what I'm attempting to do. I get shutter happy and I'm trying to cut down on my workflow time. That's all. I'm looking for a short cut without lessening the product. The eye strain is getting to me.

Thanks for your input.

[Chazs]

I'll take a stab at it.

To print only what you select, you HAVE to crop it. Now, depending on your printer driver, your printer may automatically scale the cropped portion up (or down) to fit the media. Hit Print Preview and make sure the driver doesn't rescale the image. The desired portion will be printed without pixel loss. Of course, it'll be smaller. Two options are to let the printer scale it up to say 120%, (or fit to media), OR change the pixel resolution of the cropped image in PS. Either way you'll degrade the image a bit. Once printed undo your crop in PS. I don't think the workflow can get much simpler.