Constrain ratio

In Illustrator CS2 holding down the shift key whilst resizing an object no longer constrains the proportions of the object. Does anybody know why?

This has been mentioned a few times in previous posts (and I've experienced it myself) and it can be due to another programme running in the background....in my case it turned out to be Entourage. Check by a process of elimination which other applications might be causing it

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"Do Not Constrain" crop setting won't stick

I never crop using a set ratio. The crop is always determined by the content of the image and I always want to be able to move one side independently of another, as with any other program, so this is making me crazy. It was a drag that Ap2 defaulted to a constrained ratio and made you toggle the menu at every boot, but I can't even get it to stay on the "Do Not Constrain" setting in between tweaks of the same image. Maddening.
It's a dealbreaker for me, no matter how great the rest is. Is this the way it is or have I got a quirk in my rig?
Thanks,
J

As far as exposure goes, the extra parts (surrounding film, either negs or transparencies; the slide mount) scan black, and with a decently exposed image, they shouldn't be much different than the black in the image. Note that this is completely unlike reflective scans of opaque materials, where you need to crop down while scanning, to keep the auto exposure from reading the surrounding border (which might be yellowed, say) or the scanner cover background (which might be much whiter than what you're scanning.) There have been a few times where I'm trying to rescue a blown out image and I'll crop in more on the subject of interest to get a better scan exposure.
As for cutting mats, etc. it's kind of ironic, but while I shoot almost nothing but film, I "display" the vast majority of it online! In which case, who cares what the proportions are in relation to standards, as long as they make sense for the image for whatever reason.
I thought of two more situations where I always crop randomly. First is the whole reason I bought Aperture: a life-long project (it will probably fall to a few generations of heirs at the current rate!) to get high quality pictures of every pinball backglass ever made. By the time I got to a couple of thousand slides, I desperately needed something like Aperture to help me organize and process the images. But there have been any number of backglass sizes over the years, plus I want to nudge the crops a bit even on ones that are the same proportions, to make up for an edge shadow or paint defect or whatever. And they all get cropped because I shoot them with decent "margins" to begin with, to allow room for deskewing, errors in the viewfinder vs the slide mount, etc.
The other one is sporting shots of my sons. I grab what I am capable of under the conditions (field position, lens length, my ability to track the action, etc.) and then reframe once scanned to make the best picture I can from what's there. Which leaves them all over the map in terms of aspect ratio, but then they're mostly viewed online by he and his friends, copied to Facebook, whatever, where standard ratios are completely unimportant.
Duncan

Help with Exporting Edited Version of Picture

With iPhoto I an trying to edit (crop and adjust the color) of photographs. I have tried exporting the photo, but the cropping does not come over. Color changes come fine, but no cropping.
HELP?!?!?
Thanks.
B2

Cropping takes a few steps. Click Crop, choose a constrain ratio if you want, adjust the crop box to where you want it. Finally, click Crop again to perform the crop. When you click Done or select another photo you should get the message "Saving Changes" (or something to that effect) to let you know it worked.
Are you doing all of these steps?

Orientation while cropping photos (landscape and portrait).

When cropping a photo, how can I change the orientation of the crop box? In other words, if I have a photo that is oriented like a landscape (say 4" tall and 6" wide) and I want to crop toa smaller 4x6, but in a portrait orientation, how can I do this? iPhoto seems to want to keep the crop box oriented the same way as the existing photo. I hope I'm making myself clear.
I have searched the forum for this and unable to answer my question. Thanks for any help you can offer!
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Don't worry, you're not the only one. How would you know that you had to go back to the constrain menu and choose portrait. It's not there until you choose a constrain ratio. It's easy to miss.
Lori

Unwanted default to 'constrain aspect ratio' of crops

Lightroom 2.6 Mac.
Recently I've been annoyed that when I come to crop images the program defaults to 'constrain aspect ratio' which I don't usually want. It's easy enough to press the 'a' key toggle to unset this but when I come to crop the next image it usually (but not always) resets to constrain again.
This is a new problem and I can't think of any obvious reason or way to fix it. Any ideas?

In the develop module, I made sure the constrain aspect ratio was unlocked and then double-clicked on the words next to the lock to get the menu of choices, I chose "original" which has kept the crop free to choose crops with no constraint.

Crop tool reverts to 1:1, not recognize existing crop ratios or constrain

Oh this is a bummer
Open up a project that has crops applied to images.
Select one of these files, hit C to edit the crop.
Say it was an existing 2x3 crop that you want to adjust, you must now select that ratio BEFORE adjusting the EXISTING crop, as the tool defaults to unconstrained 1:1.
ACK!!!

Your welcome. I'm with you, by-the-way.
bug, beahvior, feature...
Bottom line is if I am required to manually RESELECT
the crop ratio before modifing the crop, I am wasting
time and money.
Thanks for your verification!

Lightroom Bug: with GoPro Hero4 Silver Lens Profile, crop settings do not sync properly in Lightroom 5.7.1 when Constrain To Warp is checked

I was having a bit of difficultly in getting crop settings to properly sync in Lightroom 5.7.1 (running on OS X 10.10.1) when Constrain to Warp was checked. This appears to be a bug in the latest version(s) of Lightroom that include(s) the GoPro Hero4 Silver Lens Profile settings. I'm working with a lot of files from a GoPro Hero4 Silver camera shot in the time-lapse / interval timer mode. All of them are horizontal with the same resolution (and dimensions). I've tried various sequences to get this to work in terms of using Auto-Sync, resetting the settings on all images except one and then copy and pasting settings, etc, though the crop is not properly syncing regardless of what I do.
Here's are instructions of how to duplicate this issue (there are some extra details/steps here, though this should be clear enough to produce the same result):
     1. in the Develop settings for a single selected image, go to Lens Corrections, click to Enable Profile Corrections (in the Profile tab), and then pick the GoPro Hero4 Silver Edition (Adobe Profile) if it is not automatically chosen for you (if you are using files from a Hero4 Silver camera). After this, click on the Manual tab, and set the Scale setting to 76. (as you will see, you now have the full horizontal width of the image that was getting cropped off, though you do see white around the edges that have been warped/shaped to correct the fisheye distortion)
     2. Press the R key (or click on the Crop Overlay tool just below the histogram). Change the Aspect option to Custom. Click to unlock the lock next to it (this seems to re-lock after setting to custom even if it was locked before). Place a checkmark next to the Constrain To Warp option. (At this point, you'll see the image gets cropped back to an approximately 4:3 ratio and the full horizontal width is not included in the cropped area) Click the upper right most corner of the crop area and drag as much to the right and top as it lets you go. Do the same for the lower left corner, dragging it as far to the bottom left as you can go. (Now, you will see that your cropped area is the maximum rectangular width and height you can select without getting any of the excessive white area) Click the Close button (or press R again) to leave the crop overlay tool.
     3. Press G to go back to the grid of images. Make sure the image you just adjusted the settings for is the only one selected. Right click on it, go to Develop Settings, and click Copy Settings. Click Check All on the window that appears and then click Copy.
     4. De-select the image you were working on. Select multiple other images in the grid. Right click on one of these, go to Develop Settings, and click Paste Settings. (at this point, you will see their aspect ratio has become more panoramic than the 4:3 aspect ratio the images previously were)
     5. De-select these images. Select one of these image, and then press D to go to the Develop settings for this image. Press R to go to the Crop Overlay tool. Here you will see the bug where the crop was not properly copied over from the first image. The selected area is smaller than the full width and height available to crop.
It seems that the bug is that Lightroom is only copying the aspect ratio (and the other settings), but not the actual crop selection.
I just thought of a workaround that I've tested and can confirm works (and will also work in a slightly different workflow than above). In step 1 above, for the Model (and Profile), manually pick the "GoPro Hero4 Black Edition" or the "GoPro Hero3-Silver Edition". If using the "Hero3-Silver" setting, the Scale (also in step 1 above) need only be set to 79 (rather than 76 for the Hero4 profiles). By picking one of these Lens Profiles and doing everything else the same as the other steps above, the crop settings do copy and paste properly. This does also appear to work properly when selecting the "GoPro Hero3-White Edition" Lens Profile, with a Scale setting of 75, which yields a slightly more rectilinear image (with a wider aspect ratio -- almost, but not quite 16:9).
While this isn't too big of deal as it does work by picking one of the other lens profiles (and the Hero4 Black Edition profile appears to make the same exact correction to the image), this was incredibly frustrating last night to notice that some files had the proper horizontal field of view / crop and others didn't, and other users may experience this or not even notice their crop is not copied properly (as, depending on one's composition and image, it's not extremely obvious with such a wide view).
I hope this discovery helps someone else and provides feedback for Adobe to correct this issue in the next version of Lightroom 5.
On a separate, additional note for Adobe: Please allow the crop overlay tool to "crop" an image to a size that is larger than the original dimensions of the image. This would allow for one to retain maximum original sharpness in the center of the image when using the Lens Profile tool to correct, or "de-fish" a lens, without having to scale the image down with the Scale option on the Manual tab of the Lens Corrections settings. For example, when I do the above process selecting the Hero3-White Edition profile, my final image dimensions are 3840 by 2257 pixels, reducing the size of the image in the center by 25%. If the tool allowed one to crop/scale a larger image size, and I kept the Scale option of the Lens Corrections settings at 100 rather than 75, my final image dimensions would be 5120 by 3009 pixels (larger than the 4000 by 3000 pixel dimensions of the original image which the tool now limits me to). Yes, the edges would be a little softer but the center would retain the original detail. (this is essentially what the Calculate Optimal Size button found in the Hugin open source software does, when using it on a single image for lens transformations/corrections)

Can you zip up a few of your GoPro images, upload them to dropbox.com and post a share link, here, so others can experiment with them, or do you mean this issue is global to all camera models?

Aspect ratio of displayed pictures wrong?

My PC display has an aspect ratio of 5:4 (1280 x 1024). LR uses the full display area but doesn't ensure that the pictures are displayed at their correct aspect ratio. A 3:2 picture actually displays as ~4:3. This is true for all displays of a picture including the slideshow.
Maybe there is a setting somewhere to fix this, but I wouldn't expect so because dealing with the aspect ratio of a screen within a program is really elementary.
(maybe it's just my PC or my ruler that measures differently vertically than it does horizontally)

If you've got Photoshop CS - CS4, you can change the pixel aspect ratio of your photos to .9 DV.
Otherwise, you can right-click on one of the pictures on the timeline and select Open Properties. Then open the Motion settings and uncheck Constrain Proportions for Scale and set the scale for the horizontal to 90%. That should make that picture perfect.
Then right-click on that picture on your timeline and select Copy, then lasso or shift-click to select all the other photos on your timeline, right-click and select Paste Attributes.
Great book I wrote, by the way. Full of gems like this! ;)

Cropping aspect ratio changes randomly

Each time I crop a new image, the aspect ratio seems to change randomly. Sometimes it will pop up as "Do Not Constrain." Sometimes it will appear as 4x5. Or 2x3. Etc. You get the idea. I have no idea why it's changing. It's very disruptive to the workflow. Any thoughts on what might be causing this?
I encounter the issue on both my MacBook Pro and my iMac.

Thanks, Stan.
I just posted a draft video on Youtube for a client last night. Not sure if viewing a clip of what I see will help you but I suspect it will.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_hzhCeCGR0
If you go to about 4:34 in the clip you'll see it change over to a different aspect ratio.
This sequence was exported directly from PPro CS4 to FLV. The FLV file was uploaded to Youtube.
I'm editing this morning and just came across this same issue again.
I'm amazed that none of my clients have mentioned it yet. Of course, I'm not making Hollywood movies - these are just short videos people send out to college coaches.
Thanks,
Dan

Aspect ratio inconsistent

My first transfer of clips from Sony Handicam HC51E shot in widescreen which I know is anamorphic, computer is imac, 8x double layer superDrive,
3.2 GHz Intel Core i3, ATI Radeon HD 5670 512MB GDDR3 SDRAM, 1TB Serial ATA Drive, 8GB 1333MHz SDRAM-4x2GB plus a 1TB G-Tech G-Drive.
I am transfering to a project folder on the G-drive, some clips look ok however a large number of clips are squashed and letterboxed, which means if I wish to use these clips I have to go from the time line, properties, uncheck constrain proportions and ajust the height to the correct ratio. Project settings are set to widescreen PAL, have I missed anything ?

Your camcorder is a miniDV. You should be capturing the video over a FireWire connection using Premiere Elements' Get Media/from MiniDV tool. Is that the case?
When you set up your project, you should also have selected the preset for a DV/Widescreen. Is that the case?
You also don't say how you're looking a the files once you move them to your G drive. But, if you've captured over FireWire and your project is properly set up, your video should fit perfectly in your Monitor when placed on your timeline.
Part 1 of my free 8-part Basic Training tutorials show you how to set up a Premiere Elements project.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/537685?tstart=0

Aspect ratio on YouTube widget

Am I correct in understanding that a movie that you post using the YouTube widget has an aspect ratio that is permanently constrained to 4X3? Is there any way to modify the dimensions so they better match an HD letterbox format (16x9)?

These are YouTube's recommendations.....
■ Video Format: H.264, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 preferred
■ Aspect Ratio: Native aspect ratio without letter-boxing (examples: 4:3, 16:9)
■ Resolution: 640x360 (16:9) or 480x360 (4:3) recommended
■ Audio Format: MP3 or AAC preferred
■ Frames per second: 30
■ Maximum length: 10 minutes (we recommend 2-3 minutes)
■ Maximum file size: 1 GB
If you can't get it work correctly using the YouTube Widget, go to YouTube, copy the code and then paste it into an HTML Snippet on your iWeb page.

Changing aspect ratio of copy protected videos?

I am attempting to watch a widescreen TV show I purchased through the iTunes store on my LG plasma screen. My usual setup is a digital video out and into the plasma using VGA. The screen in this mode only gives me two aspect ratios to choose from: 16:9 or 4:3. In 16:9 mode the image appears streched and in 4:3 mode I have black margins an boths sides of the screen. When I watch a widescreen video in 16:9 it is streched with margins at the top and botton and in 4:3 mode I have now margins left and right and top and botton. I therefore usually change the aspect ratio in Quicktime so that it displays correctly in 16:9 format on the plasma. Unfortunately the new TV shows in the store are not just copy protected but I now cannot even change the aspect ratio of a video anymore under "movie properties". So the only option I have is to use the S-video output of my old Powerbook and connect to the composite input of the plasma. While this gives me many more aspect ratio options (intrinsic to the design of the plasma) the picture quality is poor. So how can I solve this? I do not want to purchase Apple TV. I have everything hardwired and do not want to change that. I understand that the files need to be copy protected. However, Apple should enable me to change the aspect ratio of a video to be able to view movies at high resolution and without a distorted picture. Any idea how to solve this?

Hi Sameer,
Thanks for your note, but the issue a bit different. Clicking the "fit page" and "fit width" allows you to change the zoom on the document, but the viewing area within the pod remains at a fixed ratio. So the document (unless the pod size is set at the same ratio) never fills the entire pod. Is this clear? I've added some screen shots to show what I mean more clearly.
As you can see, no matter what the zoom level is on the PDF (or if it's to fit width as the above screen shot), it's constrained proportionally (as I mentioned, I think it's at 4:3). Ideally, I'd like to get the PDF so it can fill the entire pod and zoom in and out. Is this possible with Connect?
Thanks! Appreciate your help.
Jonathan
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Fixed ratio for crop tool

I do a lot of photo cropping. Is it possible to set a fixed
ratio for
the crop tool? It can be done with the marquee tool, why not
the crop tool.
I know about Shift-Drag to constrain crop marquee.
Thanks for any help,
Martin

Interesting, I'm getting the same thing over here. So you're
not alone
Marty. (FWs8 on winxp-home)
You could use a mask if the crop is relatively small?
Peter
"marty" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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| Thomas Unger wrote:
| > marty:
| > I've never experienced that symptom (fw8 on
winxp-pro). In fact I've
used
| > this method for several versions of fireworks on
several platforms (mac
and
| > win) without seeing that, so I'm not sure what to
suggest. Could be a
| > keyboard shortcut conflict--unless it happens with the
mouse as
well... -Tom
| > Unger
|
| I have fw8 on winxp-pro as well. It's a new installation of
fireworks; I
| have not changed any keyboard shortcuts from the default
set.
|
| It happens with both the mouse and keyboard shortcut (C).

Stills: Pixel Aspect Ratio from File is Wrong

The photo montage I'm working on is D1/DV NTSC Widescreen 16:9 (1.2121). I shoot the pix with my SONY Z5U and the raw stills are all 1440x810 72 dpi, square pixels. To conform them to my PPro project, I change their dimensions to 720x480 and I change the Pixel Aspect Ratio to D1/DV NTSC Widescreen (1.2). But when I import these stills into PPro they all appear squeezed and their aspect ratio comes up as D1/DV NTSC (09091), so I have to manually change it to D1/DV NTSC Widescreen. How can I get these stills to automatically be seen at Widescreen?

Well, the original pix are 1440x810. If I were to change just the height to 480 and Constrain Proportions, the new dimensions would be 853x480 (thereby maintaining the aspect ratio). And this IS square pixels. So changing the dimensions to 640x480 would just thin out the image.

Aspect Ratio UNlock?

I'm using Keynote '09 and I can't figure out how to unlock the aspect ratio on images I paste onto a slide. I know that pressing "shift" locks the aspect ratio but how do I unlock it? I have a presentation due next week and being able to figure this out will really enhance my slides. Thank you for your help, it's much appreciated.

There are two approaches available:
resize: click Inspector in the toolbar, click the Metrics inspector button, deselect “Constrain proportions” then drag the corner handles to resize
mask: select the image and then click the Mask button in the toolbar (Format > Mask) then reposition and resize the mask and image

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