 - Justin T. Akers Contact Justin T. Akers Justin T. Akers's Gallery |
Aspect Ratio in PS slightly off (HELP!) Hi there-- I'm trying to crop a bunch of photos to a specific aspect ratio in Photoshop CS2. I'm using the marquee tool and entering in the fixed aspect ratio. However, about 70% of the time, when I drag a rectangle around the part of the image I wish to keep and then select image - crop, the measurememnts are just slightly off what they should be for the selected aspect ratio. For example-- I'll open a file and put my aspect ratio as Width 1.5 to Height 1. I'll drag over my image and select crop. However, when I go to resize the image to a format that should work in a 1.5 to 1 aspect ration (like 36in X 24in), I end up with an image that's 36.015in X 24in or something similar. So then I have to back track, drag the marquee again and, eventually, it does crop correctly and I can get the 36in X 24in photo I need. It's very frustrating as I have a lot of photos to crop and I need the aspect ratio to be spot on. Any thoughts out there?
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Don't sweat a hundredth of an inch. It's not going to matter. Why aren't you using the crop tool and set the measurements you want?
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- Justin T. Akers Contact Justin T. Akers Justin T. Akers's Gallery |
I need the image at the correct aspect ratio for my printing company. They won't crop it so it has to be correct. I'm not using the crop tool because I'm cropping to a specific aspect ratio while keeping the image as close to the original size as possible.
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William Schuette |
Justin, it may be that the tool is snapping to the closest grid line. This is a default feature and PS uses this even when you don't see them. You should be able to disable this feature by holding the control key while you use the tool. Bill
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David A. Bliss |
Justin, the crop tool will crop to ratio. After you select the crop tool, there will be an area in the toolbars that allows you to choose the dimensions, as well as resolution. Choose the dimensions you want, but leave the resolution blank. This allows the crop tool to just the ratio. For example, if you set the dimensions to 8x10, while leaving the resolution blank, you will find that it will select the same amount of image that 4x5 will.
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- Justin T. Akers Contact Justin T. Akers Justin T. Akers's Gallery |
Thanks everyone for your help!
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