100% Crop help needed

So I have been searching and reading some previous posts on 100% crop. I understadn the concept I think,bung that you take your full size image and crop from there giving you 100 % crop of the item you want.

My question is this, once you have the croped image do you resize from there? If so how? I am so lost on this simple topic for some reason.

I'll post a few pics here in a moment for all of you to look at.

NO, do not resize or resample. The point is to show the image in it's native resolution, to show sharpness (or lack of sharpness), or to draw attention to a certain area of a shot. It is not usually meant to be a final image for printing.

For the purpose of posting here, you want the selection to have a longest dimension of no more than 800 pixels.

Rad

So for exsample, my orgianal JPG straight from the camera of a dog was 3504 x 2336 or 48 x 32 inches at 72 dpi. I crop the head of the dog and now the image is 1250 x 1035 or 17 x 14 at 72 dpi, that is a 100% crop as I understand it . So you dont usualy print the crop shot? I would have to resize from there to make the photo smaller so I can get my dpi up for printing right?

I think you are confusing a CROP - which is done for composition reasons and a 100% CROP which is usually done for education / equipment testing - as I said above, the primary purpose of posting a 100% crop is to show sharpness (or lack of sharpness), or to draw attention to a certain area of a shot. It is not usually meant to be a final image for printing.

Specifically, a 100% crop is when you open your photo in Photoshop, and without resizing the shot, then using the rectangle selection tool, select an area, then crop away every thing other than the selection. For the purpose of posting here, you want the selection to have a longest dimension of no more than 800 pixels.

The resulting image is a 100% crop. Because 1) it is at 100% of the native shot, and 2) it is a cropped portion of a larger shot.

In THIS POST, the lower shot is a 100% crop.

Rad