#Paint.net crop to size software
Oddly, there's very few pieces of software that are able to do this. Some of the steps I outlined would still have to be followed to achieve the results i'm looking for. Rick's suggestion is really just about resizing the image and changing the canvas size. If you have to quickly crop 50 images it's a lifesaver. I really like, but I'm a web designer for a magazine who's been using Photoshop for over 10 years this is the feature that I really, really miss.
#Paint.net crop to size trial
If you have a lot photos to crop this function is a massive time saver (and it gives you more creative control with less trial and error involved). Using the crop to size function in Photoshop all of these steps are condensed in to 1 step. You now have the desired portion of the image cropped to your required size. The height should automatically adjust to 220px (although i have a hunch you might sometimes get a rounding error here and it could be out by a few pixels - not absolutely sure about this). Resize "by absolute size" and set the pixel width to 300px. There's also an alternate way to do this:ģ. Use the fixed size selection using a width of 300px and a height of 220px to select the vertical portion of the image you want to keep Resize to the desired width (because all photos on your website have to be 300px wide)Ĥ. Use the selection tool in normal mode to select the part of the image you wantģ. As things currently stand, this is how you would achieve this function in :ġ. Imagine you have a photo of a group of people and you just want to crop out a face, and also, you want to crop the photo to be exactly 300px by 220px for a website. A fixed size selection gives you no flexibility over the portion of the image contained in the cropped version because there is a 1 to 1 mapping between the pixel size of your selection box and the pixel density of the image. This is very different from a fixed size selection box. It's important to note here that the pixel size of the selection box which you draw is not constrained, however the apsect ratio is, so that the cropped image always conforms to your specified dimensions. What it lets you do is define the exact dimensions of cropped image before making a selection. Just for reference, here's a screen grab from Photoshop CS3 From reading the previous thread it seems like there is some confusion and misunderstanding about what exactly is being asked for. I can't overestimate just how useful this feature is if you have to crop a lot of images for the web. This is really just a repeat of an old feature request topic that has now been locked (and presumably rejected).