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I am a portrait photographer and need a square crop... Is there a way to crop in photoshop and leave headroom with an exact number of pixels? eg. 170 pixels of headroom
Try this :
Crop to 1024 (or whatever your wanted width)/1024(or whatever your wanted width)-170 = 1024(or whatever your wanted width)/854 without erasing cropped pixels
Go to canvas size and add 170 px to the top
And you get a 1024/1024 with 170 on top
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Yes, creating the headroom at a fixed px value shouldn't be the issue, but how will you crop to square? Using a constrained rectangular selection marquee tool or using the crop tool with a 1:1 ratio?
Please attach before/after example images, you can redact the face area to retain client privacy.
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Yes. Crop square
By @jrossphoto
Please attach before/after example images, you can redact the face area to retain client privacy.
If the Select > Select Subject command can consistently identify the top of the head correctly, then this can be semi-automated using an interactive action.
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Turn on rulers.
Right click inside a ruler and set it to pixels.
Drag grid origin to the top of the subjects head.
Make a new guide at -170px
Snap top of crop bounding box to that guide.
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Try this :
Crop to 1024 (or whatever your wanted width)/1024(or whatever your wanted width)-170 = 1024(or whatever your wanted width)/854 without erasing cropped pixels
Go to canvas size and add 170 px to the top
And you get a 1024/1024 with 170 on top
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Canvas Size: PERFECT! Thank you
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your are welcome
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Could you please post screenshots with the pertinent Panels (Toolbar, Layers, Options Bar, …) visible for the image and its intended end-result?
What are the final pixel dimensions supposed to be?