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I use PSP 9 in Windows XP.
When I used to use PSP 7 I had a very useful tool called FotoCrop II
which I used to crop images to various printing sizes. Has FotoCrop been
updated for PSP 9? Their website seems gone.
The reason I ask is because I am having trouble custom cropping images
to the proportions of a standard print size in my PSP 9. I know I can
select the PSP "Crop Tool" using a preset, but although it opens at that
preset, it does not maintain the preset proportions so I can enlarge it
to crop an image that will still have the correct proportions I want
such as 4x6 for example. I know I can drag a corner of the crop
rectangle but that does not keep the proportions the way I recall
FotoCrop used to do.
Am I using the PSP Crop Tool wrong? Can the preset proportions be
"locked" as I enlarge the crop area?
Jeff
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"Jeff" <jeff@naol.com> wrote in message news:465bf1c5$1_1@cnews...
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> I use PSP 9 in Windows XP.
>
> When I used to use PSP 7 I had a very useful tool called FotoCrop II which
> I used to crop images to various printing sizes. Has FotoCrop been updated
> for PSP 9? Their website seems gone.
>
> The reason I ask is because I am having trouble custom cropping images to
> the proportions of a standard print size in my PSP 9. I know I can select
> the PSP "Crop Tool" using a preset, but although it opens at that preset,
> it does not maintain the preset proportions so I can enlarge it to crop an
> image that will still have the correct proportions I want such as 4x6 for
> example. I know I can drag a corner of the crop rectangle but that does
> not keep the proportions the way I recall FotoCrop used to do.
>
> Am I using the PSP Crop Tool wrong? Can the preset proportions be "locked"
> as I enlarge the crop area?
>
> Jeff
When using presets like 6X4 the aspect ratio is greyed out as the specify
print size should be checked which in turn will maintain the aspect ratio of
that print size IE if its 6 X 4 it stays 6 X 4 as you drag out the crop
area. Checking that box if its not now checked will lock to that ratio.
If you are cropping by ratio rather then print size something like 4:3
or 3:2 then its the aspect ratio box that needs to be checked not print
size.
If you are working freehand with no restraints then dragging the corner
nodes will retain the ratio
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| Fred Hiltz 2007-05-30, 6:22 am |
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Jeff wrote:
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> I know I can select the PSP "Crop Tool" using a preset, but
> although it opens at that preset, it does not maintain the
> preset proportions so I can enlarge it to crop an image that
> will still have the correct proportions I want such as 4x6 for
> example. I know I can drag a corner of the crop rectangle but
> that does not keep the proportions the way I recall FotoCrop
> used to do.
>
> Am I using the PSP Crop Tool wrong? Can the preset proportions
> be "locked" as I enlarge the crop area?
Yes, they can. The proportion is called the aspect ratio. Read about
the Crop Tool's options in Help > Contents > Editing Images >
Cropping Images.
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Fred Hiltz, fhiltz at yahoo dot com
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> "Jeff" <jeff@naol.com> wrote in message news:465bf1c5$1_1@cnews...
> When using presets like 6X4 the aspect ratio is greyed out as the
> specify print size should be checked which in turn will maintain the
> aspect ratio of that print size IE if its 6 X 4 it stays 6 X 4 as you
> drag out the crop area. Checking that box if its not now checked will
> lock to that ratio. If you are cropping by ratio rather then print
> size something like 4:3 or 3:2 then its the aspect ratio box that
> needs to be checked not
> print size.
>
> If you are working freehand with no restraints then dragging the
> corner nodes will retain the ratio
Thank you. Now it works as I want it to. Guess I do not need FotoCrop
anymore.
Jeff
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