Rotate and crop

I'm trying to straighten out some footage. I used the rotate tool in the "motion" tab to turn the image so it's straight. Now I assume I can use the crop tool to reframe the image, removing unwanted black areas. How do I do that?
John

Now I assume I can use the crop tool to reframe the image, removing unwanted black areas.
John,
Now you use the scale parameter to zoom in slightly in order to get rid of the black areas.
Luca

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Good Morning Adobe,
First of all let me say Lightroom 3 is fantastic! I do have a couple of suggestions that might make the image editing more efficient. I find that I use the image rotate and crop tools frequently and think that possibly locating these 2 features below the image in the tool bar with the loupe view/zoom fit/before and after will allow the user to edit the images more efficiantly.
I believe that this is an incredible program and can't wait to see the finished product!
I will offer more suggestions as they evolve.
Thank you Adobe! You are the BEST!
D.A.

Thank you...I discovered this answer online from another post last night and tried it. (Since I didn't re-size the thumbnails, I wasn't aware that you could do this.) After re-starting Lightroom and my computer, the crop issue corrected itself. Thank you very much for your response. It worked!

Running AppleScript with Adobe Acrobat to rotate and crop file.

I constantly receive PDF files from a third party service provider that I always have to ROTATE and CROP in order to fit perfectly into labels that are perforated.
The Label sheets are 8-up (2 x 4). If I print it as is, they DON'T fall where they supposed to. I can't get the trird party service provider to alter the way they supply the PDF files (they just not helpful). I thought it is still easier for me to do the neccesary adjustments.
What I want to do is:
(1) rotate the document (multi-page PDF) 180 deg
(2) crop leading edge 3mm.
(3) if possible, I want it to be able to watch a folder and do this automatically as PDFs are dropped into a defined folder (can be set permananetly) and save OVER the old file.
I know AppleScript can do this (I think), but I don't have the expertise on AppleScript to write the commands.
Can anyone help?
I am using Mountain Lion & Acrobat 8.

Thanks for the reply. I can still open the file in excel and I understand that I can redirect the file to open in another program. But it doesn't solve my problem that when I email the file to someone else it tries to open the file as a pdf (which it basically isn't) and gives the error message that its an unsupported file type. What I am really looking for is a way to stop it from saving an excel file as an adobe file even when I choose the file format as an excel workbook when I save it.

Ease of rotating and cropping images in CS6

There is much I like about the new crop: Rotating the image instead of the box is SO much easier and the straighten option is a great time saver.
But in one instance, I'm finding cropping in CS6 to be harder: Cropping images that are not correctly oriented in the first place. Rotating an image 90-degrees was a snap in CS2: Alt-I/E/0. The shortcut keys are gone in CS6, so using the rotation command is no longer quick.
But I can do it in the crop box, right? True -- but not easily. The image is landscape, the crop box is portrait. With the crop tool selected, holding the shift key down to get fixed-increment rotations doesn't work: Pressing the SHIFT key changes the cursor from rotation to the crop cursor. To get the rotation, I have to start rotating the image and then press SHIFT to get 15-degree increments. A few moments later, I have rotated the image into portrait orientation -- and the crop box is now centered on the image, but it is set to crop the middle. I have to drag the handles out to get approximately what I want: The full image in the crop box. (What I want is what I would get if I rotate the image with the Rotate command, then control-zero to fill the screen, and then select the crop tool.)
We rotate a lot of images. It's easy to do in CS2 and the two approaches I've found for CS6 are both awkward. The new crop tool has replaced the dual arrows in older versions (to swap the horizontal and vertical sizes) with a rotation arrow. I think you should restore the arrows (and their function) -- then use the rotate button to rotate the image, not the crop box. (Isn't that the design center for the new crop box? We're moving the image, not the crop box.)

Howard, thanks for the tip about the X key; didn't realize it worked that way when the crop tool is active. But in this case I had set the crop box dimenions, so the crop box starts out with the correct orientation. Having played with this for a day, I conclude that the best approach for this task is to restore the old keyboard conventions for image rotation and rotate the image before launching the crop tool.
I stand by my observation that the rotate key should affect the image, not the crop box because that is consistent with the new cropping paradigm: We rotate the image, not the crop box. I realize making a change this late in the development cycle is awkward -- but if CS6 ships with this behavior, it will become even harder to change later -- and the user interface should be as consistent as possible.
Noel, you are correct: The images are coming from scanned film. All frames get scanned with the same orientation. I want to avoid the "Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this. Doctor: Then don't do that!" scenario. Granted: If images are "correctly" oriented, this issue doesn't arise. But not all images are oriented correctly and CS6 should be at least as graceful in handling the task as previous versions.

Rotating and cropping an image.

I am taking a Photoshop for school and we are using CS5. I have CS6 and I'm stuck on my picture rotating back straight when I am trying to crop it. I use the rotate view and rotate it 6degrees. As soon as I hit the crop button the picture goes straight. How can I keep my picture rotated to the 6degrees and crop it without the perspective crop tool?

Rotate view only rotates... the view; not the actual picture. It's temporary and non-destructive. It's used to help move the canvas to a better angle for drawing brush strokes.
You want to actually rotate the image or canvas. Either Ctrl T for Free Transform and rotate by moving the cursor outside one of the corners and dragging. Or Edit > Transform > Rotate

CS3 rotating and cropping video

Hi there
Please can someone help me? I have a video sequence that I need to rotate and then export as a MPEG file. I have managed to rotate it and crop it, however I still have large black margins. I want to show this video in a powerpoint presentation and I cannot get rid of the black margins at all. I am going crazy!!
Thanks
Dylan

[Due to a forum error during moderator editing, Harm's reply was lost. Here is the text of his reply, edited for content.]
Export dimensions are 323 x 480 pixels
followed by:
NTSC, 352x240, 29.97 non-drop frame [FPS], progressive, quality 5
which is utterly inconsistent.
*Be clear in what you are using.*

Rotating and cropping, then rotating back again

I need to crop my clip that I made in the vertical orientation. I needed to crop out the top and bottom areas, so I rotated the clip to the horizontal position. I was able to crop out the parts I needed. My question now is, is it possible to rotate it back to the original orientation (vertical) with my saved cropping? I haven't been able to figure out if I can do that.

Correct, becasue Crop takes away from the edges only. Scale is the physical size of the clip.

Rotating and Cropping Question ??

Sometimes I have to straighten up a photo by rotating it like .1 degrees, and then when I try to crop the little sliver off the side it is a pain to get the crop marks just right. I there an easy way to crop out the new image while keeping as much of it as possible?
I hope this makes sense.
Thank you.
Dan

what Buko says,
but you can crop+rotate+change resolution up-sampling (adding more pixels) with no problem.
But crop+rotate+change resolution down-sampling (reducing the number of pixels) you can get some pretty bad image distortion.

FCP-How do I rotate and crop a tilted clip?

Hi, I have a clip that was shot slightly off; it's a little crooked and needs to be straightened.... I can rotate it by 2 and it looks perfect, and then I can zoom in by 110 and get rid of excess. When I add the clip it is stretched and doesn't come out like it does in the slug.
How can I crop it like I want in the slug and add it to the timeline w/o it being stretched and wrong???
I'd even settle for masking the outside (like by putting a thick border all around) in order to alleviate the need to crop in but still mask the now crooked edges.
Any help would be really appreciated.

oop... Conform To Settings fixed that right up.........

How can i rotate and crop a lot of images (tiff) automatically?

I have over 5000 images scanned.
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in this image?

Adding to csuebele’s advice: Automating saving the resulting files from Crop and Straighten has come up before.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4540576#4540576#4540576

Aperture's Straighten and Crop vs. iPhoto's

Hello, I know that when using iPhoto to straighten a pic that it ZOOMS then crops the pic to eliminate the black triangles that would be left behind from the rotation. This zooming is unacceptable for me, as it degrades the pictures (12MP digi cam) just enough for me to see it. I imagine that this is a function of trying to rotate, and crop out the black while keeping the pic the same size (which would require the zoom). I have seen that Aperture straightens and 'crops' but when it auto crops, does it ALSO try to keep the image the same size (which would lead to another zoom situation)? I would just like to find a tool that can straighten, and if need be, cut my image size from 4000x3000 to 3500x2500, versus keeping the 4000x3000 and being slightly blurred. If the camera were garbage and the images were slightly blurred to begin with, then maybe it wouldn't be so noticeable, but my Canon takes really sharp pics and any blur really sticks out. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Yeah, iPhoto does the same thing, as far as the pixel count being reduced. I suppose that's just from cropping out the black triangles. However, I just realized that I am an idiot... I exported an original file, then exported a straightened file, and the two resulting files aren't very different... The altered file isn't noticeably any more blurry than the original, it must have been just how it looked in iPhoto's preview window. That's odd... I was getting a little concerned that all of my straightened photos were going to look like garbage when I export them. All seems well... Thanks!

I took all my video with my iPhone turned the wrong way. When I view it on my pc it's turned on its side. How can I rotate the video and crop it?

I took all my video with my iPhone turned the wrong way. When I view it on my pc it's turned on its side. How can I rotate the video and crop it?

Try plugging it into a computer with iTunes opened. If you see anything that says restore, say no.
Sometimes these issues resolve themselves when you connect the device to iTunes.
What happens when you hold the home and sleep/wake button? I know it doesn't work, but does it shut off at all?

How can I view then rotate or crop duplicate images

My wife has a large photo collection (50,000+ images) and has created a copy of a hundred or so pictures to include in a video I'm working on.
The problem is that I can't get Elements Organizer to display these images because they are "duplicate images".
I had to switch to "Display | Folder Location" mode to even find the directory. When I did I noticed the 10 subdirectories had not been imported, so I tried to import them and got this error:
Nothing was imported. The file(s) or folder(s) selected to import did not contain any supported file types, or the files are already in this Catalog.
I realize that they are duplicates but I WANT to see them so that I can edit them (crop, rotate, etc).
(Q) Is there a way to get Elements to "jump" me to the original photo so that I can rotate or crop the "original". NOTE: I would use the Version Set feature or save my edits as a "new image" altogether. I think if this worked, I could create an "Album" that has the "duplicate" photo's my wife has given to me and achieve what I need to do.
I'm brand new to Elements (previously I used ACDSee and it could do this without any hassle). I've heard and read that Elements 9's Organizer is much improved so I wanted to give it a try.
(Q) Does Elements have a simple checkbox to allow me to work with duplicate images?
(Q) Is the solution to create another catalog? I've done this to work around this problem (for now).
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(Q) Does Elements 9, have a way to show all of the images in all of the folders underneath a given folder? I found that if I have a directory that contains 10 sub-directories, when I'm in the top-level directory no images are shown. In ACDSee, it would show me all of the images under a given directory including all of the sub-directories. Is this possible to do in Adobe Elements 9?
Thanks for any help.

The organizer is not a browser, it is a database : even if it can show photos in your folders structure, it only works on the files wich have been 'imported' and registered in the catalog. It can show your registered pictures displayed according to the real folder structure based on the paths registered with each present file, but you'll have problems if some upper level folder is empty.
On the other hand, the items registered in a catalogue can't be duplicates, and the Organizer prevents duplicates to be registered. There is no simple one click way to override this constraint, which would mean a different database 'key', that is to rename the duplicates you want to register.
Practical way : since you have to rename the duplicates before importing them, you could do this directly in Windows or any other freeware like Faststone photoresizer.
Or you could open those pictures directly from the editor, browsing in your folder structure.
Imagine you have duplicates in a folder and want to rename them and import them using only PSE :
- From the editor, use the 'process multiple files' to export the files from this folder and rename them, for instance 'IMG_0012.jpg' + 'dupl' stating the same destination folder
- Try again to 'get files and videos' from the organizer.

How can I edit photos on iPad 1? Rotate photos, crop photos. Used to work before OS5 update.

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Scale and Crop in slideshow not working

I put together 2 slideshows with music and used the pan and zoom feature. Unfortunately, when i select scale and crop for the images, its still showing black bars instead of filling the screen. The images vary in size and rotatin but they are all high quality. I am working in cs6.
Any advice or solution would be greatly appreciated.

As a workaround, you might want to look into my workflow of using Still Images.
Now, I must start by saying that I nearly always create my slideshow in PrPro, and do not normally use the SlideShow feature in En.
I gather my Images into folders, that differentiate their size, and their orientation, and will often place those, that will require Panning on a Zoomed OUT Image, into yet another.
In Photoshop, I have Actions to Scale to the necessary dimensions, and also apply Rotation, if required. For those Images that WILL have the Pans, I calculate how large they need to be, and adust one of the Actions for that purpose.
Then, I use Automate>Batch, choosing the appropriate Action, and set my Source Folder and Destination Folder, as needed. Those Ps Actions work on the every Image in the Source Folder, and output (Save_As) to my Destination Folder, as PSD.
Those Scaled files are then Imported, and any Pans, Zooms, etc., are applied to them.
I have not used En's Scale function, but have read of a few problems with it. Also, remember that any sort of Scale to Frame, will only Scale up to the point, where the greatest dimension fills that dimension on the Frame, so if you have, say a portrait oriented Image (vertical), the Scale function will only Scale that up, until the vertical dimension fills the vertical dimension of your Frame, leaving black bars on either side (Pillarboxed). Same for a landscape oriented image (horizontal), whose Aspect Ratio is less than the Video Frame. That Image will be Scaled until the horizontal dimension fills the horizontal dimension of the Video Frame, and as the Aspect Ratio does not match up to the Aspect Ratio of the Video Frame, you will be left with black bars above and below (Letterboxed).
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