Newbie Printing 6x4 photos Problem

I have P.S. 7 and am attempting to produce 6 in X 4 in prints from my
digital files using P.S. 7
I perform the following actions in P.S.:-
1. Rotate image as required
2.Change Image Size : Constrain Proportions is ticked but "greyed"
Resample Image is unticked
Resolution changed from 72 pixels/inch to
300 pixels /inch
3. Picture is now reduced to 5.12inches wide and 6.827 inches deep
4. Select crop tool - this is preset to 4in Wide and 6 in Depth
5 Left click and arrange cropped area as required.
6. Select "CROP"
7 Area produced is 4 inches wide (O.K.!) but is less than 6 ins Deep !
- WHY /
N.B. Area shown is 6 inched deep but the photo details stop just above
5 ins deep and the remainder is blank white .
B.N..
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Victory@admiraliol.ie

Re: Newbie Printing 6x4 photos Problem

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Hi.
This may be a very stupid question, but I will ask it.
When you say "arrange crop area as required" is all of the Crop rectangle
within the edges of the picture?
What do you mean by "select crop"? I and most others, I know, always just
double click within the Crop rectangle.
Roy G


Roy G

Re: Newbie Printing 6x4 photos Problem

It had never occurred to me that anyone would do something like that! and
having checked the Photoshop help files and manuals (Scott Kelby too) I
don't think it had occurred to them either!
In that case I suppose you are right to point out the dangers!
Harry


Harry Limey

Re: Newbie Printing 6x4 photos Problem

Try this: Open a new document with a size of 4.5 x 6.5 inch and 300 ppi.
Set your crop tool to 4 x 6 inch and 300 ppi. Crop a VERY SMALL piece of
that document, a piece that is clearly smaller than 4 x 6 inch. You will
see that Photoshop allows you to do that, but the final cropped area
will be interpolated to 4 x 6 inch at 300 ppi. That's why this advise is
dangerous. You could crop too much and then you would loose quality
without realising what you are doing.
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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl
Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl


Nomail@please.invalid (Johan W. Elzenga)

Re: Newbie Printing 6x4 photos Problem

Not sure why you think this advice is dangerous! If you use the crop presets
in Photoshop they are all set to 300 ppi so as long as you are not reducing
the ppi there should be no noticeable loss of quality.
Presumably Adobe set them up with those defaults for a reason?


Harry Limey

Re: Newbie Printing 6x4 photos Problem

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Why? The printer doesn't know if it's the right way up or on its side.


Helen

Re: Newbie Printing 6x4 photos Problem

That's a dangerous advise. If you crop a too small area with these
settings, Photoshop will interpolate the cropped area to get to the size
and resolution you've set in the crop tool. You don't want that!
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Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl
Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl


Nomail@please.invalid (Johan W. Elzenga)

Re: Newbie Printing 6x4 photos Problem

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If you have a preset crop tool of 6 x 4" (you can set the resolution of this
tool as required and save as a new crop tool) Then you can cut out all the
other steps you take other than rotating, and just use the crop tool to get
the part of the image you want, the resultant crop will be 6x4" at 240dpi or
whatever!
In other words - rotate - crop - print!! nothing else


Harry Limey

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