Crop and display in original size before crop Lightroom CC. MacBook Pro 2018

[howie_lynn]

Is it possible to crop and image in Lightroom cC or photoshop and resize the cropped image to its original size it was before before cropping.

Image size:

     600x400 jpg

     156kb's

     NEF 6000x4000

     28.5 mb

[Rob_Cullen · Accepted solution]

If you mean that you want the 600x400 image to be 6000x4000 PIXELS, then-

Practically- Not advisable!

Technically- Yes, BUT the resulting image would lose quality as a resize would need to create new pixels from the cropped image- 'Quality' could be abysmal, depending on the image content.

And yet I just tried an 'image resize' in Photoshop that "held up" quite well, better than I expected, so do not be afraid to try!

Original-

Resize to  10x dimensions with Resample: [Preserve Details (enlargement)]:

[howie_lynn]

Thanks WorbertC for the reply,  it is appreciated.  The reason for the request is to improve pictures of honorees as they  individually receive on stage presentation awards during a banquet celebration.  It is to eliminated unwanted subjects in the pictures. The pictures have been saved in an jpg email format and these are the photos I am preparing for distribution, not the original NEF format.  The enlargement is to restore the full image size of the cropped pictures so all of the individual email pics are the same size in the email of the pictures.

Thanks for the instructions,  I'll give it a try.

Howie

[elie_dinur]

The pictures have been saved in an jpg email format and these are the photos I am preparing for distribution, not the original NEF format.  The enlargement is to restore the full image size of the cropped pictures so all of the individual email pics are the same size in the email of the pictures.

The key question is what are you expecting the recipients of these jpgs to do with them?

Simply to view them on their own computers, phones, etc., or to post them on social media, FB perhaps, or to have a print made for hanging on their office wall?  For the first two purposes you don't need a lot of pixels, certainly not 6000x4000. It would be a foolish and unnecessary mistake to blow the crops back up to that size. Everyday I reduce the size of images (most of them from a 24 MP camera) to 1500x1000 for web posting. Actually, 1200x800 would be fine and that is an upsize (2X) from the crop that LR Classic can do a great job on.

What if they want prints? Well, 2400x3600 pixels would be adequate for printing up to 8x12 inches. That would be a 6X increase, a stretch for any uprezzing software, but there a products newly arrived in the market nowadays, that are based on AI and claim to handle 6X well.

[howie_lynn]

I'm using Adobe LightRoom Classic 8.3 release and Photoshop 20.0.4 release.

[Just Shoot Me]

If you mean for printing then yes you can make it any size, use any paper size, you like by adjusting the PPI (Pixels Per Inch) of the print resolution.

But if you are taking a NEF file that is 6000 x 4000 and reducing it to 600 x 400 by cropping out 90% of the image then NO.

Actually you could but the resulting image would look BAD.