Photoshop forums

[Keitht]

Does anyone know of a good Photoshop forum? I have done a search using Google and looked at the Photoshop forum hosted by Adobe. None of them are a patch on the CV forums. Even Adobes offering has messages covering over a month on the first screen so it doesn't seem to be particularly well supported.
In case anybody here can help my query is this:-
I scan in 35mm slides and need to crop them so that they can be incorporated into a video slide show. Is there any way of creating a cropping mask in Photoshop 6 so that I dont have to do mental gymnastics to work out the horizontal and vertical measurements to retain format. Alternatively is there any way in MGI VideoWave4, Ulead VideoStudio5 or EditStudio 2.1 to create a background and then drop an image on top without it being resized to fit "full screen".

[Charles]

If you go to a post by Peter Stedman on the 21st March 2001 titled "Adobe Photoshop" their was 2 or 3 posted.
Regards
Cgarles

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[Chaifox]

Use the rectangular marquee tool and then under marquee options in the roll up you can choose the marquee style either normal, constrained aspect ratio or a fixed size.

Constrained aspect ratio will let you rubber band away but always keeping the correct proportions for your frame.Fixed size lets you set the exact pixel dimensions that you want

Its worth bearing in mind that you should try and scan for minimum later resizing.

Rob

[This message has been edited by Chaifox (edited 25 April 2001).]

[David]

If you always scan all the slides at the same resolution, and do the calculations once. You can do the following.

Create a new blank PS document at the correct final pixel dimensions - and save it as a template.

Open your scan, select all, copy.

Switch to the template, paste, move the image to the desired position (acts as a crop - providing the template is smaller in both dimensions than the scan), save as your cropped image.

D

[Keitht]

Thanks folks. Very helpful. Interesting to see how many different ways there are of producing the same end product.

[peter millard]

Keith

Just to add one more...

Select the cropping tool, and check the "Fixed target size" checkbox (in cropping tool options); you can then put in your dimentions and finished resolution as required in pixels, picas, inches, whatever, and the cropping tool will always keep the proportions you select.

Have to admit I havenn't installed P/s 6 yet, but the above works in 5.x and I can't believe Adobe would have got rid of it...

Best.

Peter Millard

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Peter Millard
www.petermillard.com

[seaDog]

What about Photoshop Actions - Actions - Actions - Actions

by far the simplest way to carry out procedures on batches of images

:) seaDog