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I have a full size 35mm image open.
I set a rectangular crop line within that image.
I dont actually crop, its just showing the crop lines.
I want the size of just the cropped area to be 24x36, within the larger area, without actually cropping.
DPI can be whatever the original is.
Yes, I can actually crop, and then set the resolution, I dont want to do that.
thx
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I have no idea what you are asking. Why not just place guides?
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does this help
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with guides need to make the guides 24x36
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You want to crop it without cropping it? 24 x 36 what? Millimeters?
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a-ha
crop image
set image size to 24x36
note the new dpi
go back to the full size image
set dpi to the same
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Have a look here:
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There are no dots, only pixels. ;]
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1) Crop with the crop-tool options bar with delete cropped pixels unchecked/off to 36 x 24 mm.
2) Image > Image Size to set the canvas to the desired size (36 x 24 mm) with or without resampling as required
3) Image > Reveal All
This can be recorded into an action or scripted:
EDIT: After the 2nd Image Size step, you can add a new Guide Layout to automatically create the four guides to the crop area.