Cropping

[Alfred]

47 minutes ago, debbru said:

Can I grab the corners of the crop box to make the area to be cropped bigger, or will that alter the dimensions

That will alter the dimensions.

Here’s another, probably easier, way to do it:

1. Create a new document, dimensions 15 cm by 10 cm

2. Use the ‘Place’ command to add the photo

3. Resize and reposition the placed photo so that the desired portion appears on the canvas

[dutchshader]

you could just crop at costum ratio, in this case 3 x 2, and on export change size to 15x10 cm.

[R C-R]

1 minute ago, debbru said:

Can I grab the corners of the crop box to make the area to be cropped bigger, or will that alter the dimensions

Area is width times height, so if you make the area larger then yes, that will alter the dimensions. (This would be obvious if you just tried it.)

[debbru]

I'm attaching another screenshot that I've cropped to 15cm x 10cm, can you explain why the all the butterfly isn't in the crop box.

[dutchshader]

have you tried this

crop at costum ratio, in this case 3 x 2, and on export change size to 15x10 cm.

 

it is not like in photoshop where you can crop and resize in one go, in photo it takes two steps.

[debbru]

in custom ratio the dimension boxes are greyed out

[dutchshader]

these are my settings

 

[debbru]

is that the same as 15 x 10

[dutchshader]

the size is not cropped at 15x10, but at a ratio of 15x10.

the size you can set at export, just enter 15cm in the first box.

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, debbru said:

in custom ratio the dimension boxes are greyed out

That is because you are specifying a ratio, not dimensions. If this difference is still unclear, maybe this article about ratios will help. Note that in the flag & horse scaling examples, the height to width ratios remain the same regardless of the dimensions.

[Alfred]

3 hours ago, debbru said:

I'm attaching another screenshot that I've cropped to 15cm x 10cm, can you explain why the all the butterfly isn't in the crop box.

Have you tried the method I suggested earlier, using the canvas of a new document as a window onto your photo?

4 hours ago, αℓƒяє∂ said:

Here’s another, probably easier, way to do it:

1. Create a new document, dimensions 15 cm by 10 cm

2. Use the ‘Place’ command to add the photo

3. Resize and reposition the placed photo so that the desired portion appears on the canvas

Having set the dimensions to the desired 15 cm × 10 cm, you don’t need to wrestle with the difference between ‘Absolute Dimensions’ and ‘Custom Ratio’. Only the contents of the canvas will be included in the result when you export the image.

[debbru]

Do you mean I just put in the Dimensions without selecting Absolute Dimensions or Custom Ratio

[R C-R]

38 minutes ago, debbru said:

Do you mean I just put in the Dimensions without selecting Absolute Dimensions or Custom Ratio

How could you use the crop tool without selecting one of its modes? 

[Alfred]

2 hours ago, debbru said:

Do you mean I just put in the Dimensions without selecting Absolute Dimensions or Custom Ratio

 

1 hour ago, R C-R said:

How could you use the crop tool without selecting one of its modes? 

With my method — or rather, @toltec’s method, since I’m pretty sure it was he who first described it here — you aren’t using the Crop Tool, so there’s no mode to select. You create a new document with absolute dimensions 15 cm × 10 cm, and you use that as a ‘window’ onto the placed image.

[debbru]

1 know I can crop this way but I would like to be able to use the crop tool if I could 

[R C-R]

11 hours ago, αℓƒяє∂ said:

With my method — or rather, @toltec’s method, since I’m pretty sure it was he who first described it here — you aren’t using the Crop Tool, so there’s no mode to select.

Which is why I asked, "How could you use the crop tool without selecting one of its modes?"