upsample & crop
Hi - sorry if this is a beginner question. i want to zoom in or enlarge an image & then crop & I don't see how to do this. Can anyone point me to a link or explain? Thanks!!
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In normal view:
All adjustments are done on the raw image. You can zoom, but not resize. Crop your variant to the composition you need.
Then, at export, enlarge using your recipe. You can do up to 250% (or the corresponding size in pixel/inch/cm).
In 'Recipe Proofing' view:
Use the same recipe. You'll see the enlarged output result in proofing. You can still adjust and crop it.
Regards,
Hans0 -
Paresh,
As Hans has said you can Zoom (up to 400%) and then crop although I would guess that you might need a high resolution screen to work at that level of zoom should you feel a need to.
On the other hand if you want to "enlarge" the image (i.e. Add the additional pixels if required for the resolution of your desired output - not the same as just zooming.) BEFORE cropping then you would probably need to output to an intermediate file using the scaling feature that Hans mentioned up to 250%, save the resulting file (probably a TIFF file?) and then edit that new file for cropping purposes.
I would guess that the image, its content and wat you are trying to produce will all have some influence on the best approach to adopt.
Grant.0 -
thanks I'll give both of those a try. I'm new, but loving photography.
Also FYI - you may already know this, but i found that hiding the browser helps with styles & presets files covering the image when they expand.0 -
[quote="Pareshk" wrote:
thanks I'll give both of those a try. I'm new, but loving photography.
Also FYI - you may already know this, but i found that hiding the browser helps with styles & presets files covering the image when they expand.
Paresh,
As faa as I know the whole UI is relatively dynamic and tries to size as effectively as can be predicted into the space available.
HOWEVER there does seem to be a different approach to the display of the cascading menus for Styles/Presets depening upon where you open the tool.
If you go to the menu and start with the Adjustments > Styles selection the cascade always goes right.
If you add the Styles TOOL to a tab in the Tools window the positioning becomes dynamic - see the observations below.
If there is space the Styles lists will, for example, pop out to the left instead of the right.
If one was to flatten the Styles (eliminate the folder structure) they would not pop out so far.
If the Tools "window" is made wider they may have enough space to go left. If narrower that are probably forced to the right. If the descriptions are very short they will almost certain be able to deploy to the left (if tools are on the left) but if the longest name is long then the it probably implies they will have to go right (if the tools are on the left).
If you have a high resolution screen the problem can perhaps be reduced. One can create a specific workspace for the task for instance and quickly switch to it when doing that sort of work. It likely to be more effective in use than it might sound as a description written here!
If you have 2 screens then floating the Styles tool might be an effective option.
The width of the panels can also have an effect - as you would expect from a dynamic UI/display interface. I think that is what you are seeing when you hide the browser.
There may well be more to it than just this - but this is what I have observed so far.
HTH.
Grant0 -
Great thank you! I'll see what i can do. 0 -
to flatten/eliminate the folders - do i delete the styles, then remove styles from folders in app data, & then reimport? 0 -
[quote="Pareshk" wrote:
to flatten/eliminate the folders - do i delete the styles, then remove styles from folders in app data, & then reimport?
You could only do that easily and consistently with User presets and styles. You have control over those but not the System supplied examples - at least not in the same way.
The system examples would likely be re-installed with the next update ...
Try experimenting with the Styles tool first - either floating or in a tool tab of your choice,
Or a second screen for the tools to be displayed.
However ....
there is a school of thought that says the style names being listed in front of you as you review their effects - which may not really require the whole subject to be visible - is an advantage in some ways and situations because you can see the name (or at least the position) without looking away.
So for a quick scan down a list of styles looking for something you feel list interesting, having the fly-out menu in front of you may be an advantage. But might not seem so at the time.
I am reminded that the other well know suppliers of applications that offer significant numbers of Styles do the whole thing rather differently, usually by displaying a thumbnail - so a larger target for the cursor than just a one line description .... but much more scrolling distance to see the list.
On the other hand ... when I have watched demos of the systems the demonstrator nearly always has certain favourites that they use almost exclusively. In effect the need to scroll around the entire library loses much of its perceived value once one, as a "editor", had settled on a "look". Or maybe 2 or 3 looks.
If you have settled on a look then the simplest thing to do would be to save it as a User Style (or preset of course) in your own user folder with your own (short) naming convention ... and then the problem becomes a non-problem until the time comes that you want to change your look or add a new one and you repeat the process.
Yes I know I have simplified things somewhat (I very rarely use Styles and Presets myself and I have what I believe are practical reasons for that) but if you find you are a heavy styles user - and that fact you find the fly-outs annoying suggests you might be or become one - you may well discover that you can greatly refine the process and make it much more efficient by saving your own Styles for repeated use even if they are just 1 for 1 copies of the Standard styles or from a bought in set prepared by someone else.
Something to think about perhaps?
HTH.
Grant0 -
Excellent - thank you again for all yr input! 0
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