CS6 - CROPPING TOOL

[sterne200]

Hello to anyone that can help.

What I notice ( and I know I am behind here ) moving to CS6 from CS5 ( years and years ), is all manner of annoyances ( sorry - " improvements" ), within the cropping tool.

For instance ; I always had my crop set to 12 x 8 inches - the proportions of my digital camera, and what's more - a reasonable physical size in terms of wrapping ones head around the resolution, etc.

I bring alot of stuff in from my scanner as well, which scans in real size, so a frame of 35mm film is really more like 1 x 1 1/2" - not even.

Anyway, if I would then crop the scan using my go to size of 12 x 8, it would crop it and reassign the resolution correspondingly. So that now instead of a 1 x 1/2 image with a dpi of 4,000 I would have a 8 x 12 image with a resolution of 478 dpi or some such.

This does not seem to be the case in CS6.  Even when I create a preset crop of 8 x 12, use it, it still tells me the image is .977 x 1.422 etc ( at a resolution of 4,000 )

What needs to be done ( because I certainly don't recall setting up anything specific within CS5 - it just had the sense to figure it out, I guess ) to get the result I am looking for. Meaning, whenever I create a custom preset - of whatever proportion ( in inches ) it will automatically resample the cropped picture to its new resolution.

Thank you so much,

Sterne

[S_Gans]

Interesting. it's been a while since I used it, but in my CS6, setting width and height without setting resolution, using the crop tool gave me the expected response - it did not resample the image, just redistributed the pixels. Are you using the Width x Height x Resolution option for the tool, and leaving the resolution blank? (I assume you are).

If that's the case, may I assume you've tried resetting Photoshop's preferences? Or, maybe it's an OS thing (sometimes Windows and Macs and versions matter). Please clarify which OS you're using for this.

[sterne200]

Thank you.

I am using Windows 10 OS, and entering numbers in same bars up top I always used - though I notice on CS5 it designates this as 12 in  ( inches ) , rather than just 12, as I get in CS6. 

So maybe that is what needs to happen - i need to also type in the in ( though I don't ever remember doing that previously ) to cue it into the fact that I want it to figure it out in inches - rather than just proportion.

I just tried that and it seemed to take, and to work, cropped a smaller part of the photo called it 8 x 12, and displays a lower resolution to reflect the cropped size.

This may be it. I thank you for your reply,

Sterne

[S_Gans]

Yeah - I'd forgotten that about CS5! Do try it with "in" afterward. The software goes by the ruler settings, so if you're viewing in pixels (or, if you open the ruler and see pixels) it'll assume pixels for your measurement. So - you can either change the ruler and then it'll assume inches, or you can just type "in" - I do that one.