How much do you crop

[rbarry]

Oh my god, what have I done................

The bit I didn't understand Nick, was that no matter how many times you alter the size of the crop box (constrained to the aspect ratio by only using the corner handles) you always end up with a cropped image pixel dimension of 800 x 533 pixels.

[nick_gray]

Hi Rick, no harm done, well apart from two popped heads .

I don't think I explain myself very well, so I probably make things worse, rather than better. Hopefully what I do, to crop/resize my images, now makes a bit more sense to Mark.

Cheers

Nick

[rbarry]

No worries!

[markgozz]

Nick

I told you I could be a bit thick at times , but at last I got it . I had to have a play in photoshop to see for myself but finally it sunk in .

It does leave me with one question tho , please feel free to totally ignore me but .

Don't you ever miss the lost data when you limit your images to 800 x 533 pixels , if you went back to an image and zoomed in you would not have the same detail or am I being thick again .

Sorry about this

Mark

[nick_gray]

Hi Mark,

I don't usually need or want to display an image larger than 800 pixels on my screen though and if I need to zoom in, then I've probably not got the crop/resize correct. I think it's a bit like looking at a great picture on your television and then getting down on your hands and knees and getting really close to the screen to study the detail, only to find that all you see is a load of coloured dots and you no longer see the whole picture, it's not something that people generally do.

If I did want them larger on my screen, want to print them out onto say an A3 poster or want them larger in the future (because screen resolution improves*), I can go back to my original file and do the crop again at say 1600 pixels wide.

* My early digital photos from July 2000 are cropped to 500 px at their longest length, because I only had something like a 640 x 480 monitor at the time and didn't feel the need to have them larger than my display. I've still not resized these images, even though I've now got a screen resolution three times greater (well nearly at 1920 x 1200).

I hope this still makes sense. As always these are just my opinions, which doesn't necessarily make them correct.

Cheers

Nick

[markgozz]

Perfect sense Nick thanks for putting up with my constant questioning and it's always good to find out how other people work .

Thanks again for your time and patience

Mark

[nick_gray]

Glad I could help and no worries about the questions. How are we to find out if we don't ask?

Cheers

Nick