100% crop how ...................

..to achieve this in Photoshop elements 6.

I have seen other peoples topics where they have a large shot then a 100% crop underneath.

How is this done whenever I try using the rectangular marquee tool I cannot get it right. Is there an easy method to do this.

Regards

Don't know if it work with elements but in photoshop I simple great a new file with the pixel size that I want and simply copy past the photo in it.

In PSE 4,
First open your image.
Then save as to make sure you do not loose the original.
Choose the crop tool.
Click and drag to select the area you want.
Right click inside and choose crop. (or click the green tick).
Zoom in to 100% view (CTRL and +)
PSE4 doesn't show the pixel selection size! (as you change size look for the pixel dimensions changing somewhere, they do in the more featured programs)
And finally save and exit.

Upload your original and the separate crop to your host site and post the links.

(hope this is what you asked)

Thanks Stefan & dougf8, that's a help will try shortly.

Regards

If you click 'Window' on the main toolbar, then select 'Info', you'll bring the info palette up, which shows all sorts of information about pixel colour, as well as selection size. I have mine docked in the 'palette bin' beneath the layers palette.

Dan

P.S. After selecting with the crop tool, you can just hit 'enter' to crop it, or 'escape' to cancel.

Thanks Dan.

In PSE, you can use Image/Resize/Canvas size. For example, to publish a 100% crop of the centre of your image, using 800 pixels (which is the standard around here):

Open the full image in PSE
Use Image/Resize/Canvas Size
Change Units to Pixels
Enter new dimensions, e.g. 800 and 532

PSE will now cut out the centre part of your image.

Save the new image, selecting Save in Version Set with Original. Thus you will retain your original image untouched.

I don't know whether this works with PSE but fron PS CS3, click: View> actual Pixels, this will give you 100% (pixel level) Select the crop tool and select the area you want then hit enter (keyboard return), save the image with a different file name in the format you desire. Done.

Regards,

John

Yes that does work John, and if you prefer using the keyboard rather than the mouse, just hit Ctrl+alt+0 (zero). Ctrl+plus zooms in, Ctrl+minus zooms out too, as Gareth said, and Ctrl+0 fits to screen.

Many ways to skin a cat, and all that.

Dan

Yes agreed, I tend to use the keyboard wnen navigating the image and zooming to the level I want to work with

Regards,

John