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Saving a Pre-defined Crop

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
September 30, 2022
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Hello:

Let's say I have an image that is M x N pixels in size. I want to define a crop area that is m x n where m < M & n < N (without having to grab & resize the area to m x n), then be able to move the m x n crop area based on the chosen grid & then apply the crop.

Is there a way to save this cropping action as a preset?

Any & all help greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Brian Hoffe

Actions and scripting

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TheDigitalDog

Inspiring

Just make a crop preset (configure and save):

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"

Brian HoffeAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thanks fo the reply. I'm uncertain about this but the crop present will not allow moving the crop "marquee" prior to applying the crop yes?

D Fosse

Community Expert

So I have a starting image that is 4608 px x 3456 px (see attached image). I define a crop preset of 3000 px x 2000 px x 300 px/in and choose it (see attached image). Notice how the crop marquee spreads the entire width of the image even though 3000 px < 4608 px 🤔 🤔. Then if I apply the crop, ues, I do indeed get an cropped image that is 3000 px x 2000 px x 300 px/in (see attached image) but that not the desired result 🤷🏻‍♂.

To get the desired result, I would have to choose, for sake of arguement, one of the pre-defined ratio crop presets (i.e. 2x3, 5x4, 4x6, etc ...) and then physically grab the corner of the crop marquee & resize it to the desired size, then move this marquee to the desired position & then apply the crop. You can see that this can get rather tiresome if one is editing many, many images.

Hopefully this explains why the crop preset method is not what I want unless you know of another method.

The crop tool will initially fit the full image and resample to the final pixel size.

If you want to crop to original pixels, you need the marquee tool set to fixed size. That will count the pixels and you can move the marquee around, then image > crop.

I'm not at my workstation right now, so I can't remember if there are any workaround options in the crop tool, but off the top of my head I can't think of any.

George_F

Community Expert

If you haven't, it's as easy as pulling up the Actions Panel, creating a new action and hitting the record button. Then Photoshop records everything you do until you hit stop. After that, it will repeat the same process every time you hit play from the Actions Panel.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/creating-actions.html

Feel free to clarify if you need something different 🙂

George F, Photographer & Forum Volunteer

Brian HoffeAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thanks for the reply. Each image will have different subjects and therefore the amount of moving the crop "marquee" will vary from image to image before applying the crop. I suspect with actions, it will only remember a single crop setup.

George_F

Community Expert

I'll confirm whether it works or doesn't in a few hours, but you should be able to click the checkbox for a dialogue prompt to pop up in the action with your pre-defined settings already there.

From there you should just be able to move the crop tool and click ok.

George F, Photographer & Forum Volunteer

George_F

Community Expert

I'm sure you can do this as an Action? Have you used Actions before?

George F, Photographer & Forum Volunteer

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