Cropping to pixel size PS CC

[george778111]

Hi there,

I am a full time editorial/fashion photographer and I'm currently stumped by what I've always thought was a simple task.

Normally, I don't deal with final design for print/web publishing as that's done by the in-house designers at whatever agency.

But this time, I was told to supply images at certain specs which I thought was no biggie until I went to crop my images.

So I have been asked to supply images at "Desktop - 200 x 150px , Mobile - 728 x 150px"

How would I go about cropping my images to these sizes from my mega 50mp files?

At the moment, if I enter these pixel dimensions into the crop tool in PS, I end up with the tiniest of tiny crops of the entire image.

Alternatively if I export from Capture One, I just end up with a long edge of 200 or 728 px while maintaining the original aspect ration which doesn't help me either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

George

[davescm]

Hi

In the options bar for the crop tool set the left box to WxHxRes (it is a drop down choice) and then type the pixel size into the next two boxes include the "px"

Dave

[george778111]

Thanks Dave.

At the moment, if I do that, it gives me the crop but that crop is so tiny I can barely fit an eye in.

I'm thinking I might have to first resize the image?

[davescm · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The only crop should be to correct the aspect ratio.

See example below:

1. After typing the values I stated into the options bar

2. Cropping box on pressing enter

3. After hitting enter again to accept the crop. The imagei s now tiny but complete as indicated by the cropping lines before pressing enter

Dave

[george778111]

Thank you Dave, after a bit of developer tab stalking on the publisher website to see their image cropping and using your method described worked out perfectly. Thanks again!

[Trevor.Dennis]

george778111  wrote

Thanks Dave.

At the moment, if I do that, it gives me the crop but that crop is so tiny I can barely fit an eye in.

I'm thinking I might have to first resize the image?

Blimey George.  This sounds like of those 'very rare' times when the client get's their knickers in a twist, and gets it wrong.  I'd go back to them and ask if they are sure that they need 200 x 150 pixel images, which barely more than thumbnail size.

On the other hand, if that _is_ what they want, then be thankful that they have given you control of that process, as it is oh too easy to wreck an image when down sizing it — especially to such a tiny size.   Being s studio photographer, you'll be working with some very sharp images.  The Bicubic Sharper resize algorithm will probably produce a nasty harsh end result.  I tend to use Bilinear when working with nicely sharp originals.

But I still suspect that the client has messed up.

[george778111]

Thanks Dave and Trevor - Very helpful screenshots! I will give it a try tonight when I can access that project again.

And yes Trevor! I had a double take too... It's from a campaign I shot for a bridal designer (I work mainly in bridal fashion) and the request is coming from the publishers of the magazine where it's being published. I have queried already and unless they've left off a zero twice, I'm leaning towards a very small file is what they intend!

[Peru Bob]

Alternatively, you could make a selection at a fixed pixel size, transform the selection if necessary, and then Crop