Cropping and choosing sizes Aperture 2.0

I use the hot keep "C" to pull up the crop tool, is there a hot key to switch the ratio from 3 x 2 to 2 x 3?
Also, My settings show "Constrain to Master Aspect Ratio"
and appears
width 3 and height 2
Is there a way to set default to 2 x 3?

just choose 3x2 and will stick there ... until you change it again ... unless you are trying to change a 3x2 to a 2x3 ... i think it finally recognizes l vs p orientation and applies the crop the same way ... at least that is the behavior i have noticed ...
afaik, there is now keyboard shortcut for this ... not sure you could even assign one to it thru the customize keyboard ... i really didn't look into that ...

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While cropping images, one in particular came out more square, but showed exactly what I want.
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I did check out resizing in PE8, though it wouldn't let me.
What am I doing wrong.
I want only a portion of a picture I took and would like to enlarge only that and cut out everything else, so I cropped.
Should I be doing this another way?

Hi,
Cropping it would not allow you get the removed areas of your image back again later. Also, if you want the image of a specific size, you can simply specify that on the options bar : Width, height and resolution.
this will allow you to crop the image in a specific size.
I hope i answered. Incase you have doubts about something else, please reply.

Compressor 4.1 Crop and Size appears to be broken

anyone who can check this, much appreciated before I send this in as a bug
try to make a conversion..set any crop and then force the size back to it's original size and start job and it should fail telling you missing codec.
seems to be happening with anything but uncompressed files...it was fine in 4-4.07
this just seems like a really bad rethinking of the whole application. it wasn't made 64 bit and the interface changes shouldn't be breaking basic functionality (crop and size, multi core usage etc)

Thanks Russ
Can you try these steps?
1 your original xdcam
2. set a crop of 8 to top and bottom
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submit and let me know if it completes.
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Hello, I recently uploaded about 250 photos from my phone onto iPhoto. However, when I go to view them, they have already been auto-cropped. It seems I must click "Edit," and then "Crop," and then expand the box to the fullest size. I don't have enough time to undo this auto-crop with all 250 photos. Any suggestions?

@SuperMan
I noticed this as well when navigating through the photo gallery on my iPhone.
If you (and he) are asking about iPhone operation then you are in the wrong place - this is the iPhoto for Mac forum - there are forums for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch as well as iPhoto for IOS -
I do not see any cropping in iPhoto on the Mac for either camera or iPhone photos (I use PhotoStream with auto import to get my iPhone photos to iPhoto on my Mac) - and given the way iPhoto works it is really not possible to have auto-cropping - the only thing that I see even close to that is that when you select edit ==> drop the default crop is slightly smaller than the photo - but unless you accept that nothing is changed and the photo is exactly as imported
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Actually, there is a Nik/Nikon connection — but I am pretty sure it is irrelevant to the OP's question. The connection is that Capture NX2 was written as a joint venture between Nikon and Nik. (The name similarity is a coincidence.)
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I need to crop my images at 500x500 pixels for a project. I do a Save For Web & Devices and use JPEG, optimize at 80%. When I open up the new JPEG file, the pixel size says 500x500, but the document size says 6.944x6.944 inches at 72 resoultion, instead of 5x5 inches at 100 resolution. I've been doing the same process for months and it was correct in pixel and document size until recently, but I haven't changed any settings or my process. Does anyone know why this is happening?
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Thanks, that all makes sense. I'm just curious though, why would Photoshop display the document size differently, one as 5"x5" at 100ppi (files I did months ago) and then recently it seems to have just decided that it wanted to display the document size at the 6.944"x6.944" at 72ppi? We've always done a "Save for Web" and not "Save As." Other than that, thank you for your responses, I understand.

Can I crop a photo inside aperture to any custom dimension?

can i crop inside aperature

romeo700 wrote:
can i crop inside aperature
You have asked two different questions and, I believe, have gotten correct answers for both.
I assume by cropping you mean to use a "portion" of an image not to simply resize an image to new dimensions. That's another problem.
The easy answer is to use an external editor such as Photoshop or Photoshop Elements (or other resizing software, of which I am not familiar).
Using the above software to create an image with exact pixel dimensions is made easier by sending an image with the correct aspect ratio from Aperture. Say you want an image 636 px x 892 px. Simply determine the aspect ratio by dividing 892 by 636. The result being about 1.4. Your aspect ration then is either 1 to 1.4 or 1.4 to 1 depending on whether you desire a landscape or portrait aspect. In the Cropping HUD, choose "Custom" Ratio Aspect, put the numbers you have calculated in the Width and Height boxes, and crop as desired. Then go to an editor capable of accurately resizing the image to specific dimensions.
If using additional software is not possible or is unavailable, you can use a trial and error method inside Aperture. This technique offers 2 possibilities. 1) It will allow you to "test" the crop within an image to determine what size crop is possible and/or which size is required to fulfill your need. 2) With patience, it will allow you to crop to specific pixel dimensions.
As before, calculate the ratio aspect your project requires. Make your crop and press Return to finalize it (for now!). (You can always "erase" the crop by bringing up the crop tool and clicking outside you original crop.) Then bring up the "Info" or "Metadata" (depending on Aperture version) HUD. (Hint: switching between "Library" and "Metadata" will update the information there.) Check "Pixel Size". Those dimensions should equate to the pixel size of your current crop.
In the trial and error method you can adjust crops, larger or smaller as needed, to match your size requirements. This is tedious and time consuming, but works.
In my experience I have found that Photoshop image size and Aperture cropped image sizes often disagree. I do not know which is more accurate, though I suspect Aperture crops are a bit inaccurate.
Jerry

Script : Crops and name one image

Hello there,
I'm completely new with scrip on photoshop.. I know there is a way to use one image for different crops and name them. There is no batch involve.
Which means :
-Click on the script, a croping open, crop it, got a message saying if the crop is okay, click okay, then a box open, you can choose a name and save, then it follows by two others similar crops.
Sorry, not easy to explain. Is that a plug or a script? or both?
I basically end up using one image for 4 different crops and names, with a file saving like ??_xx_xx_xx_?? (?? : the name I selected, xx : the name of the image)
How to code this, is anyone knows?
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endofthenight wrote:
Without having javascript or coding knowledge I won't be able to recreate this tomorrow......... ahh
No
While program knowledge would enable you to create a fully automated process you can do what you want to do with an action without any programming. It can not be done without thinking and planing. While recording an action is extremely easy to do. Crafting an action like you described takes some knowledge, planning, skill and practice.
Adobe forums like this one is a good place to acquire missing knowledge. There are many here with a lot of knowledge that are willing to help other learn.
First the thread belongs in the Photoshop General Discussion forum this forum is for users interested in scripting. Scripting is use by a very small subset of Photoshop users with programming skills and is best outside the other main stream forum.
As I wrote I would have no problem crafting an action like you want. However if I do you learn very little and I think perhaps I just been used. If you have a problem recording the action you can ask how would some one do this or that. Then perhaps many would respond with how they woul do something. You and otheres would see how other do something. Some of the ways may be better the others. You can take your pick. The important to to me is knowledge is being learned and spread. Photoshop help and support is the pits one of the best Photoshop resources at you disposal are these Adobe forums.
Now I'm going to ask you a favor. Please start a new thread in the Photoshop General Discussion forum where you ask for help crafting the action you want. Start be describing the action you want in great detail. Also please read the text file in may crafting action package. They are written for the advance action creator short perhaps and cryptic but they detail some of the capability of the Actions Palette, contains some good guide lines to follow. Address the issue of document size a problem area many have problem with, It also provide some script written to be used within Actions so the action creator can record better action with some logic in them without the need programming the script.

Automating Cropping and Link Creation

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Every morning, I create a PDF from an Excel spreasheet. I crop each page a certain amount - every day it's the same measuerements for the same pages.
After cropping the pages, I scroll up to my contents page. I then highlight each entry in the contents page, and choose to create a link, scroll to the page referenced, and then hit Create Link.
As you can imagine, this very monotonous, and I was hoping someone could tell me how to automate the 2 process mentioned above?
The amount by which each page is cropped does not change from day to day. As well as this, the contents page does not grow, and the poisiton of objects within the document does not change either, so I'm always setting the same content references to link to the same position within the document.
Any help on this is very much appreciated
Thankyou

Crop is pretty straight forward using a Batch Sequence - there is already a Crop function listed there which you can use to define the page size and crop multiple PDF at once.
The hyperlinking is much more complicated and requires some rather complicated logic. Basically this too could be done with a custom Batch Sequence and a JavaScript. The process would iterate over the text of the page and based on regular expression pattern matching identify numbers representing page numbers. These numbers would also have to match other criteria such as page location i.e. page coordinates. Once the page text has been filtered this way creating bookmarks or hypertext automatically would be possible using standard JavaScript methods.

Can't crop to pixel size!?

I'm relatively new to Aperture - considering converting the workflow in the photo studio from PC to Mac, but right away I seem to have hit a roadblock.
When editing a hires JPEG or Raw file, I often have need to crop down to a 72-dpi image of some size to use as an email sample, etc...
The crop tool apparently only allows one to crop in inches.
Is there a way to change this on the fly - switch the crop tool back & forth from making 8x10's at 300 dpi to screen-res 600-pixel wide images?

Karl's right about how the crop tool works in Aperture. But I think it's a great solution: crop how you want the photo to look, regardless of measurements, then export to whatever export setting you want. Settings can be in pixels or inches, at whatever resolution (72dpi /300dpi).
I prefer this method over Photoshop or Capture One. The only time you'll need to change your crop tool is for a different ratio or moving the framing. In those cases, just make a different version of the image.
For large projects, I create keywords such as, 5x7, 4x5, etc. and tag the crops, then create smart albums to display only the 5x7's, for example.
The crop tool actually doesn't do inches but rather
proportions. The actual size is then determined by
your export.
Suggestion: you can specify a number of settings for
your exports, e.g. 600 x 600 px. Your images will
then be exported with a max size of 600 px wide or
high (whichever is higher).
Not a perfect solution, I'll grant you that.
Cheers,
k.

Automated cropping and resizing with user interaction

Dear all,
after hours of tests with batch processing and search in the internet maybe somebody of you can help me:
I have roughly 3000 jpgs. in one folder (all different sizes and proportions), and I need all of them cropped to a specific proportion (width:height = 4:3) and then resized to a specific size (e.g. 800 x 600px). Batch processing can do a lot, but one critical step is not possible: As soon as one picture has been loaded into PS, I need a user interaction to determine the crop area freely (size and position) before the rest of the process (cropping, resizing and saving) can run automatically again.
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If somebody can help me, I would be very glad....
Thanks a lot,
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This should give you the user resize then resize to 800x600.
var doc=activeDocument;
if(doc.width>doc.height){
cropFourThreeRatio(true);
doc.resizeImage(new UnitValue(800,'px'), undefined, undefined, ResampleMethod.BICUBIC);
}else{
cropFourThreeRatio(false);
doc.resizeImage(undefined, new UnitValue(800,'px'), undefined, ResampleMethod.BICUBIC);
function cropFourThreeRatio(landscape) {
var startRulerUnits = app.preferences.rulerUnits;
app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.INCHES;
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        var desc2 = new ActionDescriptor();
        desc2.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID('Top '), charIDToTypeID('#Rlt'), 0.000000 );
        desc2.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID('Left'), charIDToTypeID('#Rlt'), 0.000000 );
if(landscape){
        desc2.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID('Btom'), charIDToTypeID('#Rlt'), 147.000000 );
        desc2.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID('Rght'), charIDToTypeID('#Rlt'), 195.750000 );
}else{
   desc2.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID('Btom'), charIDToTypeID('#Rlt'), 127.500000 );
   desc2.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID('Rght'), charIDToTypeID('#Rlt'), 96.000000 );
    desc1.putObject( charIDToTypeID('T   '), charIDToTypeID('Rctn'), desc2 );
    desc1.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID('Angl'), charIDToTypeID('#Ang'), 0.000000 );
if(landscape){
    desc1.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID('Wdth'), charIDToTypeID('#Rlt'), 288.000000 );
    desc1.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID('Hght'), charIDToTypeID('#Rlt'), 216.000000 );
}else{
desc1.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID('Wdth'), charIDToTypeID('#Rlt'), 216.000000 );
    desc1.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID('Hght'), charIDToTypeID('#Rlt'), 288.000000 );
    desc1.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID('Rslt'), charIDToTypeID('#Rsl'), 0.000000 );
try{
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}catch(e){app.preferences.rulerUnits = startRulerUnits;}
app.preferences.rulerUnits = startRulerUnits;

Help with custom cropping and known aspect Ratio's

I would like to crop a small part of a larger image with custom / free flow dimensions to the crop and then be able to print / export at a know print friendly aspect ration. An example would be a taking a crop of one person in a couple,from a larger image. The crop is outside common aspect ratios. Can lightroom fit the image to an aspect ratio of my liking whilst maintaining everything I have cropped?
Thank you in advance

Clearly we can't get one aspect ratio into a different aspect ratio without either trimming bits off, or else leaving gaps.
So the best I can suggest is: crop in Develop according to the subject content that you don't want to see.
Then in Print, set up your print layout (or choose a print template) which contains an image cell of the desired size and shape.
There are two ways that a photo can be put into such a cell: it can be fitted "loose" so that you always see the whole current crop, leaving white margins as required; or else it can be fitted "tight" using the Zoom to Fill checkbox. In the latter case, LR applies an additional print-only crop which forces the image that is seen, to adopt the shape of the cell. So the aspect ratio of the Develop crop, does not need to have been exact for this precise output.
This print-only crop will only remove further bits of the photo, not put any back - unlike the Develop crop. But you can slide the image around for the best composition, in terms of what it trims off.
Your main (Develop) crop has not been altered in any way by doing this, and can of course still be adjusted further also, which will in turn alter how the zoom-to-fill appears.
[ edit add: The Develop crop might be made specific for a particular print shape, but does not have to be, with the above technique. Maybe one actively wants to retain the camera-original aspect, with other kinds of output in mind. In any case, page margins often mean that the actual printed area is not quite exactly the same shape as the notional page anyway - a "10x8" printed with a half-inch margin on three sides and a three-quarter inch margin on the bottom, would print 9" x 6 3/4" (which is a different shape than 10x8). And all that would need to have been worked out each time, re-cropping the main composition for each different output size, margin width, etc then re-cropping it back again to 3:2 (or whatever) for your web upload. That can be managed through presets, virtual copies, snapshots - but sounds like a lot of extra work to me. My own images are cropped for general purposes, but each one remembers its last print settings also - which places it onto a page in the needed manner.]

Shedding light on export settings and file size

I am trying to learn about exporting images and file size. I have a combination of RAW and JPEG images in my library. For the sake of this discussion, I am going to limit this to JPEG's. I need to export my images, so that I can then upload them to an external photo processing site like Kodak.com. I was going to export versions of my images because I have made adjustments to many of them. I was going to choose the top level preset of "JPEG - original size." For the sake of example, the file that I try exporting this way has a file size (in Aperture) of 1.94 MB. After exporting it (with a DPI of 72) and a color profile of sRGB IEC61966-2.1 (I am not sure what the significance of the DPI and color profiles are either), I get an exported image with a file size of 4.6 MB. When I export the master image, I get a file size of 2.0 MB. I'm completely confused and at a loss as to what is going on here.
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This confusion is because of the way Jpg files handle data. Jpg is a kind of file that compresses data to achieve a balance between image quality and file size. The jpg file that your camera saves to disk is also compressed, that's why the difference in size between a 2 MB jpg and the same image in Raw is for example 18 MB.
Jpg is a lossy compression format, every time you save a jpg some compression is applied, say after editing in Photoshop. Aperture must be reading your jpg masters to export jpg files to disk, so the difference in size should be the compression quantity applied to the newly created jpg file. I could have a 1 MB jpg file previously compressed with a quality level of 7, but if I export it at a compression quality of 10, the file could easily become a 2 MB file. The problem is quality doesn't increase with file size when the original file is a jpg.
Also some files include a preview image inside the file, increasing the final file size. The color profile embedded should't increase size by much, since most camera jpg files already include a color profile embedded (color profiles tells computers to display color consistently between applications and peripherals like printers. sRGB is widely used for images published on Internet).
As for the images you are sending to the archival folder, I would suggest you to export the masters, instead of exporting a new jpg file from an already compressed jpg master.
I know this is a complex subject so I hope I haven't confused you.

Cropping and choosing sizes Aperture 2.0

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