Sorry, my reply was not very specific.  I meant to say that before my initial posting I searched but did not manage then to find the thread you referenced (which was indeed what I was looking for).  Your link worked perfectly and I had no trouble with it. Thank you. ... View more

Many thanks for the information; I looked but didn't manage to find the thread you referenced.  Nice to know I'm not on my own! ... View more

Good to hear that I'm not on my own, thanks.  I haven't uploaded for a few weeks so I can't comment on review times.  I image that adobe will soon lurch into action and get things back to normal. ... View more

I'm not surprised at your happiness; I'm happy too. Thank you for your endeavours. ... View more

Many thanks for that piece of information.  It is exactly what I needed to know.  No doubt it was obvious to many, but for me it had to be pointed out.  I am most grateful for your tolerance and persistence ... View more

I have taken a screenshot and it is at : https://www.dropbox.com/s/kvudl3em3mmxt9r/Asprat1.JPG?dl=0 I don't normally use dropbox, but the link works ok for me. I hope it will be ok for you also. The image shows Centre - the image which I want to have an aspect ratio of 6:5 Outside the central image - A crop area with aspect ratio 6:5 Doing the crop just gives me the existing central area with a white border around it. The white border has the required aspect ratio, but the central image is unchanged. ... View more

EW, thanks for your attempts to resolve this issue. I have tried your solution but can not make it work. All it will do for me is add an area of background colour (or transparent canvas, depending on the delete cropped pixels selection) to the initial image. It does not have the effect of transforming the initial image such that the aspect ratio is changed, which is what I want to do. If this is possible by using the crop tool then I am unable to make it work and would be grateful for further details of how to do it. Sharpening is not an issue for me; I am well aware of sharpening techniques. My apologies for creating aghast feelings, but I also find this a difficult situation. Clive ... View more

You need to read what I said again.  To quote from my opening text in this enquiry, I said: I do realise that this will introduce distortion, but the distortion will in many cases be small and tolerable. How did you manage to interpret this as me saying I did not want distortion? ... View more

Why do you persist in giving me methods which add bands of background colour to the sides of the image?  I have previously written : Introducing bands of background colour onto the edges of the image is not what I'm after; I want to change the aspect ratio only.  ... View more

After having a think about how to do the change of aspect ratio I have settled on the following, which is not automated but which I find manageable. 1.  Load the image to be modified into photoshop. 2.  Decide on a canvas size which is larger than the original and which has the desired aspect ratio. (for example, if the ratio required is 6:5 then 60cm x 50cm will be ok for the images I'm dealing with.) 3.  Expand the canvas to the larger size. 4.  Fit the expanded canvas on the screen (CNTL 0). 5.  Using the crop tool, select the original image. 6.  Select Edit --> Transform (CNTL t). 7.  Drag the transform handles to make the original image fill the canvas. 8.  Enable the transform (hit the tick). 9.  Reduce the image to the final required size (if similar to the original size, this will regain lost sharpness). I have compared image quality of original and resized images after this procedure and can see no loss of image quality if the resized image is about the same size as the original. It would be nice if this could be turned into an action, but I don't know if the transform operation could be automated. ... View more

Hi JJMack, Many thanks for your suggestion, I have downloaded your crafting actions package and installed the AspectRatioSelection.jsx script and have run the script.  But unless I'm doing something wrong it creates a crop area of the required aspect ratio, which is not what I'm after.   What I want to do is equivalent to changing the aspect ratio by using the PS Image Size function with 'Preserve Aspect Ratio' disabled.  I can do this, but would have to work out the required size for every operation.  What I would like to do is be able to specify the final aspect ratio directly, rather than have to do a seperate calculation for each change of aspect ratio.  But I don't see why this involves any loss of data from the original image.  So long as the change is not to a smaller image, would it not be entirely reversible? ... View more

Hi Derek, Many thanks for your response but (if my understanding is correct) it is not what I'm looking for.  The drop-down menu seems to be a way of preseting the aspect ratio of the crop area.  What I want to do is not to crop the image, but rather to preserve the image entirely but with a different aspect ratio.  In other words, I want to reduce (or increase) its size in one dimension such that the result has a preselected aspect ratio, but no image information has been lost. ... View more

Italosan; Many thanks for your information, I did eventually succeed with your guidance.  However, I found it a relatively convoluted procedure.  I don't know what Adobe are about here; what I wanted to do is readily available in a very straightforward manner in CS4 (which I still have) using the "Save for Web and Devices" function.  This is far simpler to use than the methods available in CC.  However, without your help I would have just given up before finding this out, so once again thank you. ... View more

Many thanks; I had tried something like this before but did not get a result at the time.  However, there is a problem; the master file type is jpg and I have selected jpg as the output file type but the sliced images are gif.  I've tried several times to change this but the sliced files are always gif.  Any further suggestions would be appreciated. ... View more