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Posted on 12/09/05 2:13:40 PM |
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junipaire
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Help needed with cropper tool
I think I'm going slightly insane here , I have a picture 24 inch by 24 inch and open it up in photoshop, I want to crop it to A4 size so 8.267inch by 11.693inch so I put in the measurements in the boxes to get a crop shape A4 size but weirdly the shape comes out nearly covering the 24 inch by 24 inch should in pheory make 3 A4 widths across it but as I say it just covers 3 quaters the width some how, also tried it in painter and it does the same. I don't know for the life of me how theis works out. I've checked to make sure the painting is 300 dpi on the image and the crop so it can't be out to do with that. Can anyone help here, just too weird for me. Philip |
Posted on 12/09/05 2:26:19 PM |
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junipaire
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Re: Help needed with cropper tool
Let me just explain further what I actually want to do, maybe it can't be done, from a 24 inch by 24 inch picture I want to print it off on my A4 printer so need to seperate a split up the 24 inch by 24 inch into segments of 8.267inch 11.693 (A4) Every time I on the image even if I start to open up the cropper tool and just realease it anywhere and then crop, everytime no matter where I stop the cropper tool (which is supposed to be set to the measurements of A4 ) does it when I click on image size show up and A4 size, when what I wanted was a portion of the 24inch by 24 inch Can this be done, hope I've explained ok |
Posted on 12/09/05 2:44:32 PM |
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maiden
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Re: Help needed with cropper tool
So if I'm right what you are trying to do is crop each potion of a 24"x24" image as 3 A4 sized images? What I suggest is to go into Image/Image Size... (Alt+Ctrl+I) and within the Document Size: box enter the A4 dimensions 8.267" by 11.693" ensuring that the units are set to inches. This will determine the final document size. Go back to the crop tool and on the option bar click the "Front Image" button to automatically get the document's size and resolution then drag out the crop tool selection marquee on your image and when happy press enter and the crop will fill to the size of the document, which in this case is exactly A4 size. and will print to those dimensions. _________________ mad as a badger and twice as furry |
Posted on 12/09/05 3:11:33 PM |
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maiden
Golden Gif Gagster Posts: 471 Reply |
Re: Help needed with cropper tool
On second looks it would seem as though it's not possible to set the crop selection size only the document's size after cropping. Although a way of ensuring you get the dimensions you want would be to set a Marquee (M) selection with a fixed size of exactly half the pixels of your document. So if your image is 3491px wide by 2479px high then set the Fixed Size to 1745.5px by 1239.5px then drag out the marquee which will snap to this exact size, move the selection to the top left corner and Ctrl+Shift+J to create a New Layer via Cut and so this way crop up your image into quarters. Stack each of these quarters on top of each other being sure that they are perfectly aligned (best using the align tool for this) then Image/Trim and trim based upon transparent pixels, and then using Image Size enter the A4 dimensions in the in the Document Size boxes - and then they are ready to print off. You can seperate each layer into new documents or turn off the top most layer as you print each off. Also if your printer is capable of it set it to borderless printing or edge-to-edge as it's sometimes called otherwise you'll have to do some trimming with a pair of sissors or guillotine. Also ensure that if you do choose edge-to-edge printing ensure that the document fits 100% otherwise it could end up cropping the edges of each image. Hope that helps  _________________ mad as a badger and twice as furry |
Posted on 12/09/05 4:09:32 PM |
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junipaire
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Re: Help needed with cropper tool
Hi Thanks for your help, don't know if I explained that well with what I want to do, Right I want to make my digital art , forget about the 24inch by 24 inch, lets make it more simpler and use cm also my artwork will by 59.4cm width x 63cm length and want it split into 6 A4 segments so will be 2 A4 lengths 29.7 x 2 = 59.5 and 3 A4 widths 21 x 3 = 63 I want to be able to split the image up and then for each segment add a drop shadow, and bevel I know how to do all this and then put all 9 segment which is what the final artwork will be onto another black canvas and arrange to how they would look on a wall slightly gap between each segment, basically for web show on my website what the final product would look like. Hope I've made it a little more clear with what I want to achieve. I'll also be doing 59.5 x 84 split into 8 A4 and 84 x 59.5 the same just landscape instead of portrait Cheers Phil |
Posted on 12/09/05 5:33:45 PM |
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maiden
Golden Gif Gagster Posts: 471 Reply |
Re: Help needed with cropper tool
The only way I can think of is the way that I have already explained. Use the Rectangle Marquee (M) set to the specific size of 29.7cm x 21cm with the "Fixed Size" setting on the option bar. Drag out the fixed sized marquee and position in the top left corner then Ctrl+Shift+J to create a New Layer via Copy repeat this for each section of the entire image. Select all the layers and use the Align to stack them. Delete the transparent space with Image>Trim (Based On Transparent Pixels). Ensure that within Image Size that the Document size is 21cm by 29.7cm to comform to A4 standard Print each layer in turn with edge to edge printing as described previously. _________________ mad as a badger and twice as furry |
Posted on 12/09/05 6:00:20 PM |
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tabitha 1
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Re: Help needed with cropper tool
OK I may be a little dumb on this one and be totally off key but why dont you open your document and set to a view percentage that can fit the whole image on the screen at once... then open a new document and set it to the size of an A4 sheet (does that make sense?). Once open fill the whole image with a random colour then select all, copy and paste into the large document. You can then have the exact dimensions of an A4 sheet which you can use as a guide for the rectangular marque tool to cut from the background (your original image). These can then be copied and pasted into new documents which you can treat and print accordingly. The coloured rectangle layer can be deleted when you have finished as its only a guide. Does any of that make sense to anyone else who is not 4.5 months pregnant and incredibly hormonal???? 
Edit- BTW DONT SAVE YOUR ORIGINAL DOCUMENT WHEN CLOSING DOWN OR YOU WILL LOSE IT!!! Thought I had better get in or else I may be held responsible for losing days of hard work!! _________________ "She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech." George Bernard Shaw. |
Posted on 12/09/05 6:04:02 PM |
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maiden
Golden Gif Gagster Posts: 471 Reply |
Re: Help needed with cropper tool
Makes perfect sense to me Tabs. Congrats also, I didn't know you were expecting - Ooh and I see your avatar is a scan of the baby. _________________ mad as a badger and twice as furry |