Cropping to a Fixed Resolution

Is it possible in Aperture to use the crop tool and have resulting images with the same resolution (resampling)? I ask because I often do slight crops to straighten or for composition and do not wish to send designers a mixed bag of sizes. If I could do this in Aperture it would cut my Photoshop work dramatically. Thanks

In the Aperture -> Presets -> Image Export, in the panel, you can specify the “Size to” option such as “original” or “Fit within inches” etc. All your pictures can be made the same size at least in the greater dimension, such as fit within width 10 and height 15. But of course if you have made minor and varied crops, both dimensions won’t be the same for all pictures because your pictures will have different aspect ratios after you have made your various crops. Clear?

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Fixed Resolution And Text Behaviors

Ok, so like a good student I have been reading up on all the benefits of Fixed Resolution and what a GPU lifesaver it is. However, is it possible to apply the fixed resolution to a text behavior? I've got two words that have the Hot Pop Flash behavior on them in my project. The parent layer has a fixed resolution of 720 x 480, but this seems to have no effect on my text behavior. I am still getting a cropping message because I have exceeded my 2048 canvas limit. Is there anything I can do? Am I missing something completely inane?

Anyone??

PDFs are low res even with Fixed Resolution deselected

Motion 5.0.6
I am working on a project with a single pdf file imported from Illustrator. There are no other layers in the file, the pdf has no filters applied and Fixed Resolution is selected off. Render is set to Full resolution and Quality to Normal. For some reason the image displays in low resolution when I zoom in. Any ideas? Thanks.

When no camera is present, you simply scale the PDF image, or you can manipulate the Position.Z paramater.
Fixed Resolution is Motion's way of keeping the brakes on a file that has potential for unlimited resolution. It's a safety net designed to keep performance reasonable.
When a PDF is imported, it comes into Motion with the document dimensions with which it was created, and Motion will render it on the canvas with those dimensions and set the resolution of the image with those dimensions. As long as Fixed Resolution is checked, it will be treated as a standard image even though it might contain vector shapes.
You have the option of unchecking Fixed Resolution, which will unleash your PDF on Motion and possibly affect the performance of the application (PDF vectors can consume huge amounts of video RAM especially when scaled to very large sizes.)
Another way to go, without unchecking Fixed Resolution is to change the dimensions of the PDF document, and Motion allows you to do that from within the application.
Below is a PDF I imported. Note the dimensions of 298x278:
(The Media tab is selected and the PDF layer is also selected -- then in the Inspector, the Media tab is where you'll find these controls [along with the Fixed Resolution checkbox... for those who might not know how to get to it])
Scaling the image greater than 100% in the canvas will result in softening of the image (like any other plain image) with fixed resolution on.
Below, I have modified the Fixed Width and Fixed Height (dragging one will automatically change the other based on the Pixel Aspect Ratio setting.) In this example, I have reset the Fixed Width to 2000.0.
I can now resize (scale) my PDF up to the dimensions I have set with Fixed Width/Height -- with Fixed Resolution still on, and still maintain a pristine vector appearance of the image (as long as the Canvas view is at 100% or less).
It still limits the PDF vectors to reasonable limits and allows you to get the smooth line appearance you expect from vector shapes.
PS - You could even take advantage of the Fixed Resolution degrading the image as it gets "closer" in view by tweaking those parameters to create the illusion of losing focus.
HTH

Cropped pfd defaults to resolution of 9999

I have Photoshop CS3 and Windows XP. I used to crop pfds and the resolution stayed at the normal 72 default. Now when I crop the image shrinks very small and when I check in image size the resolution goes to 9999. But in preferences the resolution is still 72.
What is going on?

I assume you mean PDF file not PFD.
What settings are you using with the crop tool, in PSCS3.
H, W and resolution, input boxes.
What is the image resolution before you crop the image?
Ed

Why is "fixed resolution" in Motion not unchecked by default???

I learned that in Motion 4, "fixed resolution" in the Media tab is supposed to be unchecked by default so that if you bring in Illustrator pdf files, they show up nice and clean (not pixelated).
But I am working with a multi-layered map where each country is being imported into Motion as a separate pdf file. Every single time, I have to navigate to the Media tab and manually uncheck the "fixed resolution" of all the pdf layers. I thought in Motion it was unchecked by default.
Any way to change this setting? I want "fixed resolution" to remain unchecked (as opposed to checked) by default.
Thank in advance,
- Nick

Just a guess, but I believe that the Fixed Resolution box is checked by default to keep the program from buckling under large, complex vector graphics when they are imported.
As far as I know there is no way to change that default.
Andy

Acrobat Reader - Use Fixed Resolution for Snapshot tool images setting

Hello,
We're currently running Acrobat Reader 9.x on our production Windows Vista SP2 Enterprise image and we're running Acrobat Reader X on our development Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit image. I'm curious if there's a registry setting that sets the "Use fixed Resolution for Snapshop tool images" from 72dpi to 300 dpi.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Rob

The per user settings are held in the following registry location:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\10.0\Selection
There is a hexadecimal value named iSnapshotResolution which contains the resolution for the Snapshot Tool. Also a parameter called bUseFixedSnapshotResolution which needs to be set to 1 to switch the feature on or 0 to disable the feature.
This is a per user setting but I believe Reader checks the per machine location
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat Reader 10.0\Selection
Presumably you can put the same values into the HKLM section (it doesn't exist by default) so you will need to create the Selection key.
Hope this makes sense.
You might also find benefit of using the Enterprise Deployment tools for your deployment environment.
Enterprise Deployment Technical Resources
https://www.adobe.com/content/dotcom/en/products/acrobat/technical-resources.html
Adobe Reader 9 Customization Wizard
https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3993
Adobe Reader X Customization Wizard
https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4950

"Fixed Resolution" and what it does

Could someone in here explain precisely what checking the "Fixed Resolution" box does and when it's called for?
I thought I knew what it did, but it doesn't always seem to behave the way I would think it should.

Someone already did:
http://www.motionsmarts.com/tutorials/nutsandbolts/sizematters.html
Patrick

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400: How to fix resolution issue?

Hi,
my laptop has a maximum screen resolution of 1366 x 768. I connected an external full hd monitor but I cannot set the resolution of 1920 x 1080.
I use gnome and the monitor setting utility of gnome give me the maximum resolution of 1600 x 900.
How fix this problem?
I use catalyst driver and this is my xorg.conf:
[tiziano@arch64 ~]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
Screen "amdcccle-Screen[2]-1" RightOf "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/OTF/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "record"
Load "dri2"
Load "dbe"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 340 190 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "AUO"
ModelName "22ec"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-LVDS"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
Option "PreferredMode" "1366x768"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "0-CRT2"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
Option "PreferredMode" "1400x1050"
Option "TargetRefresh" "60"
Option "Position" "0 0"
Option "Rotate" "normal"
Option "Disable" "false"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: : integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz",
### <percent>: "<f>%"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "Dac8Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "BusType" # [<str>]
#Option "CPPIOMode" # [<bool>]
#Option "CPusecTimeout" # 
#Option "AGPMode" # 
#Option "AGPFastWrite" # [<bool>]
#Option "AGPSize" # 
#Option "GARTSize" # 
#Option "RingSize" # 
#Option "BufferSize" # 
#Option "EnableDepthMoves" # [<bool>]
#Option "EnablePageFlip" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoBackBuffer" # [<bool>]
#Option "DMAForXv" # [<bool>]
#Option "FBTexPercent" # 
#Option "DepthBits" # 
#Option "PCIAPERSize" # 
#Option "AccelDFS" # [<bool>]
#Option "IgnoreEDID" # [<bool>]
#Option "CustomEDID" # [<str>]
#Option "DisplayPriority" # [<str>]
#Option "PanelSize" # [<str>]
#Option "ForceMinDotClock" # <freq>
#Option "ColorTiling" # [<bool>]
#Option "VideoKey" # 
#Option "RageTheatreCrystal" # 
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#Option "RageTheatreCompositePort" # 
#Option "RageTheatreSVideoPort" # 
#Option "TunerType" # 
#Option "RageTheatreMicrocPath" # <str>
#Option "RageTheatreMicrocType" # <str>
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#Option "RenderAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SubPixelOrder" # [<str>]
#Option "ClockGating" # [<bool>]
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Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
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Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
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Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
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Depth 24
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Section "Screen"
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Device "amdcccle-Device[2]-1"
DefaultDepth 24
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Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
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Don't worry the native resolution of these cards are far higher than any consumer monitors out there, these GPU can comfortably drive a 30 inch dell with WQXGA resolution. And the resolution you can get on most consumers LCD screen is WUXGA, which could be used even with a laptop 5 years old.
Currently most of the cheaper LCD use a 16:9 rather than the 16:10, these are due to two factors mostly:
1) Cheaper to produce than 16:10 and this is one of the reason that the LCD have fallen in price, as production can squeeze the most amount of LCD panels out of each production ran, with minimal cutoff wastage.
2) Most of the widescreen movies are produced in these resolution (16:9), and many people use their LCD for movie watching and games (i do it a lot).
The resolution of the graphics card can be changed, to fit either the 16:10 or 16:9 screens, so what you have to worry which one do you like.
The benefits of 16:9 are it is cheap, and there is plenty of supply from different companies, offer high resolution in small screen area, and good for movies and games.
The benefits of 16:10 is that it got more vertical real estate, so there is less scrolling if you view a document. But they are more expensive, mostly reserved for higher end LCD, hard to find and probably not that much better than a 16:9 if you are getting a TN (most common and very cheap) LCD.
For a cheap LCD stay away from Acer (low quality LCDs) and stay away from Samsung that allow you to rotate or raise the LCD (they break off really easily, i have 3 failures already), i personally like Benq and ASUS one because they offer the most bang for bucks in the 16:9 category, and many of them can be bought with HDMI input... TV, Xbox 360 and PS3....
Regards,
Jin Li
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How to fix resolution problem in Photoshop CC for Macbook Pro w/ Retina Display

I design email promotions for my website in Photoshop CC on a new Macbook w/ retina screen. However, document sizes appear much smaller in my Macbook than they did on my windows laptop. A 700px wide document now appears to be 350px wide.
When I designed the email graphics, upload, and then view in a browser, everything is pixelated. The document/graphic is still 700px, but its pixelated in the browser. After some Googling, I have a better understanding of the problem but not a complete understanding. Its all so technical. I've read that some designers choose to create their graphics with another lower resolution monitor connected to their Macbook (if I explained that correctly)... not an option for me, though, unfortunately.
How can I fix this problem? I basically design for the web so its important that these graphics are at their highest resolution when viewed on a web browser. Any solutions? Help! I will try everything in my power.

First of all, thank you so much for taking the time to try to help out. It
is much appreciated.
The two things that first come to mind are: I have many friends in the
industry who paint solely in Photoshop and do just fine. My computer is
technically "old," but the specs are still just fine—even the graphics card
is the exact same one that is in the new Cintiq Companions (the all-in-one
computer/cintiq machines).
And, more so, I was painting on it for a few weeks without noticing
anything. A part of me wonders, did I just not notice it until it became
dramatically worse?
I do remember painting fur, which requires making tons of small brush
strokes over an extended period of time, and I don't remember there being
any lag.
By the way, I forgot to mention: I've even tried going into the Performance
preferences and disabling the graphics card altogether. No luck. Still an
issue.
As far as painting at 100%: I do notice an amount of improvement. The one
brush stamp, or space, whatever you call it, issue only happened on the
first brush stroke (every time) and then just once otherwise. The lag was
tremendous—and I compared it to Painter's performance, which had no issues
whatsoever.
I am really hoping to be able to rely on Photoshop more and more, as its
tools for other aspects of image manipulation are far more robust than
Painter's. And the working compatibility with Adobe InDesign, Flash, and
Adobe Media Encoder are sooooooo useful for speeding up the workflow.
Hopefully we can find out what's going wrong.
I'm truly baffled on this one.
Bryan Beus
Artist and Author
www.bryanbeus.com
Sent from my Tardis

Keep fixed resolution even when display not attached

Is there any way to lock the display resolution on a Mac, even when there is no display attached? Or to change the set of display resolutions that are available when no display is attached?
I connect a Mac to my A/V system via DVI -> HDMI. As long as the unit the Mac is connected to is turned on, the Mac gets reasonable EDID info and allows me to set it to 1920x1080, as desired. But after turning the A/V system off overnight, the Mac invariably reverts to some lower resolution, which wreaks havoc with window sizes and positions. I just want the Mac to stay at 1920x1080.
I tried SwitchResX, which lets you add available resolutions and disable resolutions, but only when the display is attached, so it accomplishes nothing when the display is disconnected. I've confirmed the inability of SwitchResX to address the problem with its author.
I purchased a Gefen DVI Detective Plus that theoretically learns the EDID information of a display, keeps that information available to the Mac at all times, and passes the video through it. This would be perfect, except A) it doesn't work correctly in the learning mode (I never did get an image up that way), and B) using a built-in EDID configuration it doesn't cleanly pass the video (it works sometimes, for a little while, but then sparklies start to appear and before long the HDMI connection is lost). Useless.
I found information on the web about various .plist files, and I've edited most or all of them, all to no avail. I think I could give myself additional resolutions, while a display is connected, but, again, it's the behavior when there effectively is no display that is causing me problems.
Unless someone here knows a way to lock the display resolution or to edit the set of resolutions available when a display is missing I fear I'll be moving and resizing windows for the rest of my days.
(Note: This machine happens to still be on Tiger, but I'd be happy to upgrade it to Leopard if that would afford a solution.)

Are you saying you already got it fixed but the problem is reaccuring??
I am part of the unlucky ones who didnt't have applecare or the extended warranty. My iMac broke down 8 months ago. I no longer have any display. The strange thing was I left it at home because I went to uni, so there was a period of at least 10 months where it was not used. But still it failed within a few weeks of me getting back home. I was sucked in by their adverts making me believe they were a superior computer to any windows based. How wrong was I. It has now left me with a very bitter taste.
Any of you guys know if it still will work if I connect an external monitor?

CS6: cropping bitmaps in lower resolution, then applying to original bitmaps?

Hi,
as first step I have to crop over 1000 images (JPEGs) and saving the cropped areas as new JPGs (same filename, new directory).
So I open e.g. 100 images of them -- each 5 MB -- in Photoshop, select the area to which I want to crop to image, switch to the next image and repeat these two steps. After that I crop the images, save and close them with an "Action" automatically.
Question: is there a possibility NOT working with the original high-resolution bitmaps but with lower ones and afterwars let Photoshop (action, script, ...) apply my individual croppings/selections to the original files?
Advantage: less memory needed (RAM) resulting in a better performance.
At the moment, opened 100 images:
Thanks!
mtemp

There is a big difference between what you write and reality. Your way you have to wait for the 100 images documents you select to be open in Photoshop. Then manually make the crop,them manually save out a the new image where you want it saved. Then manually close the document. And you must manually do those three manual steps 99 more time. For a total of 300 manual steps.
With the Image processor and action. You set the image processor dialog for the process and click OK, Then select the 100 crops areas by transforming the crop selection everything else is automated.
Interactive means you control the crop selection the action just initiates the interactive selection process for you.. I often do this by recordings a selection of some aspect ratio. Then record transform selection rotating it 180. Followed by recording Image crop as the actions last step. Then I turn on the transform selection step dialog to make that step interactive. When the action is played you get to set the selection by manually transforming the selected area. That will be the area cropped....
The Image process processor Opens each image one at a time. The action sets up a selection which you transform for the crop. The action then crops the document. Then the script saves out the new document and closes the original document and moves onto the next image document.
All you do manually is make 100 transform everything else is automated. 100 manual operation rather then 300 manual operations
Both ways 100 image documents are opened, 100 image are cropped, 100 image documents are saved and 100 image document are closed. .
300 manual steps will take more time then 100 manual steps. Your write up left out 200 required manual steps. The save and closes operation required.

Use fixed resolution at all times?

I have a Logitech C920 webcam, and it's connected by USB to my Mac Mini (Mavericks 10.9.1, Skype 6.12 (431)). My Mac Mini has a wired connection to my 120Mb cable service (so I'm not using wireless), and is connected by HDMI to a Sony Bravia TV. Sadly, I regularly encounter video lag of 2-3 seconds, i.e. I can see myself in the smaller chat window and my actions/movements are clearly 2-3 seconds behind the audio. This is how the person I'm calling experiences it, too - they hear what I'm saying but the video is lagging 2-3 seconds behind.
However, having investigated this problem further, I believe I've discovered something of use - in my case, my audio and video go out of sync when Skype changes resolution on the webcam of its own accord. I noticed this because the image of myself in the chat window would be close up (which is how I've set the zoom), and looked like a 4:3 image. Then it would spontaneously change to what appeared to be a widescreen shot, 16:9 style. As soon as it switched to the "widescreen" image, the video would start to lose sync and drop behind the audio. Remembering the technical call information window, I popped that open during my next call and waited to see what happened. It took me a couple of goes to pick it out from the raft of information, but basically when the webcam was broadcasting in 640x480, it would run fine and the video would not lag. However, when Skype switched to 1280x720, the image would go "widescreen", and the lag would kick in.
I've found that if I turn the camera off and on during the call, it defaults back to 640x480, and again the lag disappears. It will eventually go back to 1280x720, though, and the problem immediately reappears. So it would appear that this problem is directly caused by the resolution that Skype is using.
As such, what I need is to force Skype to use 640x480 resolution at all times - I have no doubt at this point that this will solve my problem - but I don't know of a way to do this on the Mac.
Any ideas on how to do this would be greatly received! Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.
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Try the latest version of Skype (6.15)
http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-mac/downloading/
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I created artwork for an LCD screen with a fixed resolution. I'm having problems saving correctly.

I recently deleted unused programs off my computer including Illustrator 7, 8 and 9. I am currently using CS. Now I am missing some of my fonts... the ones I use often. Did they get deleted with the programs? I tried reinstalling but can't find them.

At least with the Creative Suite installers fonts don't get deleted upon uninstall. Don't know about the older versions though.
You might want to ask in this place:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/design_development/typography
Which fonts are concerned?

File resolution, how to crop and preserve clarity?

Hello, I record video off my PC using FRAPS, copy it to my mac, and cut out the clips I want using Quicktime pro 7. The problem I run into is when I import them into FCE they are resized improperly and become fuzzy. I realize FCE is a "Fixed Resolution App" (Glares at Apple). How do I import the video keeping the same resolution, but only cropping the video. I know I lose some quality converting from AVI to MOV but that is nowhere near the loss of quality once it is resized by imovie/FCE.
it should also be noted, the LCD I use is native 1280x1024, I record in "50%" mode, hence the 640x512 output from FRAPS. So simply adjusting my monitor to 1440x960 won't work. Also I realize I can do all my editing/compiling in QT7, but seriously, that's not a solution
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
example:
http://www.sonic84.com/tmp/comparison.png
left: original: 640x512
Mid: FCE: 720x480
Right: iMovieHD: 720x480

The standard definition dimensions of video are 720x480 using CC601 pixels with an aspect ratio of 0.9. How would you like your video to fit into that frame? It can either scale down and you'll have pillarboxing, or it can scale up and crop. Scaling up is never a good solution. Furthermore, I'm guessing you're talking about screen captures, which probably are in resolutions much higher than can be compressed well into a highly compressed format like DV.

Cropping while changing resolution

I have noticed that when working with a 300ppi image, that I want to crop at say, 4 X 6, I enter these values into the W and H of the control panel for the crop tool, though if 72 ppi is left over in the crop control panel from some previous person, it makes the image MUCH smaller, even though I specified 4 x 6. Can someone explain to me what this is actually doing to my image, by cropping it at a specified size, that gets smaller because the resolution is also being changed to a smaller size?
Thanks much!!!!

If there is a value in the resolution field on the options bar when you use the crop tool the image will be both cropped and the crop will be resampled to the resolution request in the resolution field. If you do not want the crop resampled clear the resolution field in the options bar. If you set 4" x 6" and set the resolution to 72 DPI the crop be it a small portion of the image or the whole. The 4x6 72dpi crop will be 4x72=288 pixels by 6x72=432 Pixels that is what resampling is all about.

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