Yeah, Herschel. But the user who has not yet discovered that nifty
feature is probably going to assume that by cropping one means
cutting something off! It is a bit counterintuitive to use the crop
tool to resize. Harking back to the days of analog (the darkroom)
the two terms are quite different and although Adobe did a clever
thing with that hat trick, it is at a basic level not intuitive.
One of the important things to me about Photoshop is the extent to
which all its basic functions mimic the darkroom. Moving from PS to
the darkroom is greatly enhanced by that factor and redefining terms
on a whim or to make some process sound high-tech, in-the-know,
with-it or "improved" grates on me every time.
That's why I hate Word.
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Emily L. Ferguson
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