When you crop you either select the size and resolution for your crop, select the Front Image, if you want to keep your size and resolution (which can get the novice in trouble). or use the clear button which just cuts off the excess and you go back to use Image Size.
It's intuitive and it doesn't take a rocket scientist or even reading the manual to figure it all out. IMHO
Photoshop is such an easy, well thought through program - all it takes is logic to understand it.
Everybody have a nice day,
Renate
On 10/12/05, Emily L. Ferguson <elf@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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