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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 29, 2018 18:01:40 GMT
Using E7, possibly with the help of E7+, is there any way to crop an image to exactly what I am seeing in the window ?
I often expand an image and slide it around until what I am seeing in the window is exactly what I want my cropped image to be; trying to replicate this via normal means in nigh impossible, at least for me.
Whether I use the crop tool or the rectangular selection tool, when I try to get close to the window boundaries, the image will not stand tied, it will jump wildly around.
I have had some measure of success by adding a blank layer and placing red dots at the four corners, then contracting the size of the image and cropping to the red dots; however, the image still won't hold still when the brush gets close to the edge, but it doesn't jump nearly so bad as when using the other tools.
Maybe I am asking for something that isn't possible, but there is no reason it shouldn't be.
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Post by Major Major on Jul 29, 2018 18:07:17 GMT
Not sure I completely understand what you're asking, but if you have the image in the "window" as you call it, can you not use control-A to select all, then crop from there?
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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 29, 2018 18:44:48 GMT
Not sure I completely understand what you're asking, but if you have the image in the "window" as you call it, can you not use control-A to select all, then crop from there? Alas, that selects the entire image, regardless of zoom and orientation. |
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Post by ritage on Jul 29, 2018 19:44:17 GMT
Not sure I completely understand what you're asking, but if you have the image in the "window" as you call it, can you not use control-A to select all, then crop from there? Alas, that selects the entire image, regardless of zoom and orientation. Control-A and then Image>Crop should do what you want.
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Post by Major Major on Jul 29, 2018 19:44:52 GMT
Then what did you mean by window?
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jul 29, 2018 20:16:00 GMT
Hi BuckSkin Not sure I understand either. Here's my take ... Use rectangular marquee to select what you want. Using a PC.... <ctrl C><ctrl N><enter><ctrl V> [copy] [new] [enter] [paste] ... selection is now in a new window. Flatten and save. The new image will have the exact pixel dimensions (and resolution) as selected with the rectangular marquee. Will have to change dimensions to suit needs. That help? Clive  |
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Post by Sepiana on Jul 30, 2018 3:05:50 GMT
I often expand an image and slide it around until what I am seeing in the window is exactly what I want my cropped image to be; trying to replicate this via normal means in nigh impossible, at least for me. Whether I use the crop tool or the rectangular selection tool, when I try to get close to the window boundaries, the image will not stand tied, it will jump wildly around. Maybe I don't understand what you are talking about. I also have PSE 7. I replicated your steps (expand, slide around, crop, etc.). There was no problem cropping the image with either the Crop or the Rectangular Marquee tool. The image didn't jump around either. |
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Post by Bailey on Jul 30, 2018 3:10:40 GMT
Hi Buckskin,
By "window" I am assuming you have zoomed in to more than 100% and are using either the vertical/horizontal scroll bars or holding down the spacebar and using the mouse to move the image around the editor "window".
If this is the case, in my PSE 14 I have no problem using the crop tool or rectangular marquee tool to drag a selection from the top left corner down to the botton right corner of the "zoomed" image and then crop the image. The zoomed in image does not move around as I approach either corner of the editor "window".
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Post by BuckSkin on Jul 30, 2018 3:38:09 GMT
I believe Sepiana and Bailey are both onto what I am describing; but, whatever tool I am using, when the tool gets close to the edge/corner of the window, the image will not hold still.
If both of you are able to perform the crop without the image moving, then I should also be able to.
Maybe something in my preferences is set wrong, but I have no idea just what it may be.
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Post by Sepiana on Jul 30, 2018 3:49:55 GMT
Maybe something in my preferences is set wrong, but I have no idea just what it may be. I may be wrong but I don't think this problem is related to the Preferences file. Before we go down that route, let's try a basic troubleshooting step (which has proven to fix small glitches in PSE). 1. Right-click on the PSE desktop shortcut and select "Run as administrator". 2. See what happens. If you are able to do the crop you want, close PSE. 3. Launch PSE again but this time do it as a standard user. |
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