Crop Tool v22
Greetings All... I might be missing something here but here goes & hopefully someone can answer.
A landscape image that I want to crop to A paper size portrait. Set up the aspect ratios and it crops it as landscape. Likewise if I've portrait shot I want to crop into landscape, the cursors automatically default to portrait. The crop ratios are set up correctly for an A paper size and being over ridden by the format of the image. Highly irritating unless I've missed out on a check box somewhere which I don't think I have. Thanks in advance.
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The definition of the currently active Export recipe will, to a certain extent and subject to what controls you have chosen, influence how C1 attempts to optimise the size of the image area available for the ratio chosen.
So if, as a starting point, you take a Landscape selection and drag a corner across the screen at some point the orientation will likely change to portrait, and vice versa.
Much depends on the size of the source file pixel dimensions compared to the values stated in the recipe. So for example if you have a file that is 4000x3000 pixels and specify the output pixel dimension to be 2000x3000 taking into account the "Longest Side" when your longest side falls below 3000 of the 4000 width available horizontally the new longest side possible would be the 3000 vertical and the crop would switch orientation.
With so many settings and influences and positional choices to work with the description above is somewhat simplistic bit if you try dragging a few ratios around using the corner and edge centre tags available you should see things changing.
Then try some different settings in the Export recipe to see how the crop tool adapts within whatever rules you create.
Bear in mind the ratio is just a ratio and does not specify output size per se. The combination of the values in the recipe AND whatever the printer does when printing, are the things that matter in this case.
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The default is determined by the Export Recipe you've chosen. However, you can always crop to portrait or landscape as desired with ANY recipe. It depends on how you drag the cursor.
Example: to crop a portrait formatted original to landscape (losing some of the top and/or bottom of the image, of course), just drag the cursor so it's narrower than it is tall. To have the crop start someplace other a corner, hold the Shift key when you start to drag and release it while you're dragging. You can also change among portrait/landscape crop while you're cropping simply by changing the crop aspect ratio on-the-fly.
Example: on that portrait, with a portrait Export Recipe selected, choose the Crop tool. It defaults (of course) to portrait and the initial area is set to the entire image. Now hold the Shift key when you start dragging and you can start the crop wherever you like. Release the Shift key and the portrait crop returns. Now to get it to crop as landscape, just drag one of the corner handles out and the tool will snap to a landscape crop. You can switch between landscape and portrait as much as you want simply by changing how you drag any corner.
I hope the above is clear. It's worked flawlessly for me since I started back at C1 8.
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Thanks guys... dragging the corner does the trick. So a bit of a waste of time my setting up both a portrait & landscape A size ratio. A slightly odd method in my mind but then again, I'm not a programmer.
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Hi David,
For editing purposes it's just a ratio. In part that is why the output recipes (Exports) definitions refer to "Longest Side" and things like that.
When one gets into it and all becomes familiar I think it starts to make quite a lot of sense in the overall context of the rest of the functionality in the export side of things.
One could perhaps make a different argument for printing activity where media size and margins may be more significant considerations.
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