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Cropping to a specific size and resolution using Canvas Size - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Inkjet Printing for Photographers
Cropping to a specific size and resolution using Canvas Size
In the last movie, you saw me trying to size this image to 8 x 10 and running into the problem of the image's aspect ratio. This image does not actually scale to a perfect 8 x 10 because it's too wide. This is a 3:2 aspect ratio, so it doesn't fit into a perfect 8 x 10 inch size. If I go here and set my Width to 10, my Height drops to 6.6. If you are building a custom mat, that's fine, but if you're trying to fit an image to a prebuilt frame or a prebuilt matte size, then you may want to go to a very, very specific size, and that might mean that you have to crop your image. That's the only way we are going to get this image to fit in the size that we want is to drop some off the edges. There are a lot of different ways of doing this. The Crop tool is probably the one that immediately comes to your mind, but in this movie I want to show you a different way. Before we get to cropping though, I want to set my size properly. If I have my image set to 10 x 6, that's going to complicate…
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Understanding pixels, printer dots, and resolution2m 44s
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Understanding resolution2m 33s
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Defining resampling and interpolation3m 41s
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Understanding where resizing fits into your workflow2m 12s
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Defining native printer resolution2m 39s
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Understanding the relationship between viewing distance and print size2m 1s
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Reducing image size in Photoshop9m 11s
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Cropping to a specific size and resolution using Canvas Size4m 34s
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Cropping to a specific size and resolution using the Crop tool5m 15s
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Enlarging an image in Photoshop7m 7s
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Creating a triptych3m 55s
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Creating a triptych using Automator on a Mac4m 5s
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Exploring the aesthetics of print size4m 39s
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