We can resize this window to the crop you want. You can enter (cm) centimeters, (mm) millimeters, whatever you want. All we need to do is just type “in” to change the measurement to inches. But this could easily make this simple explanation complex, which is NOT my goal.Įnter 5×5, notice it uses pixels by default (The default unit of measurement, that can easily be changed from the rules). If you specifically know the resolution, use 360ppi for Epson Printers, 219 for retina etc.
If you don’t know, a general rule of thumb is 72 for screen and 300 for print. Unless you are working in pixels, then it will use the entered pixel sizes.īut say you tell it 5 inches by 5 inches and don’t enter a resolution, it doesn’t know if those are screen sized inches or print, that’s why you need to enter something into the resolution field. Without adding resolution, it won’t know what size to make it. This is VERY important, if you want to crop to certain size. You’re now going to see an additional box for your target resolution. The next option is to crop an image to a specific size for screen resolution or print. In fact, you’ll see these under the Presets. 16×9, which is used for HD video sizes for title screens etc.Maybe, you want a 4×5 crop for Instagram? (The first number on the left is always the width and the second number is always the height.) As you resize the crop, this is like cutting off a slice of pizza, it will cut off the area you choose without resizing anything. When you apply the crop (Enter key, or click the checkbox) It’s not going to resize anything, all it’s going to do, is simply crop it into that shape. Tip: If you hold the alt/option, you can drag from the center, rather than the edge. It doesn’t matter if it’s a 2×2, 4×4, these are all square and will produce the same result, because its only the shape we are concerned about for aspect ratio. To demonstrate, let’s make a square crop. It doesn’t cause the pizza to change size, we are just cutting off a smaller slice. Think of this as a pizza and we’re going to cut it into a different shape. Cropping to an Aspect RatioĪspect ratio doesn’t care about the size, just the shape.
Hey, everyone, Colin Smith here from, let’s jump in and look at cropping.įirst thing, grab the crop tool, which you’ll see in the toolbar on the left.įirst is aspect ratio and one is resize. In this tutorial, I’m going to simplify cropping, whether you want to crop to an aspect ratio or you want to crop to a specific size for printing, you don’t have to do any math, Photoshop will do it all for you.
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