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Crop and change image size in one step

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Crop and change image size in one step

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- [Instructor] One of the assumptions that's made when we use the Image Size command to resize a document is that you want to use the entire image and that the file is already at the correct aspect ratio. But often, I want to use only a portion of the image, so I want to change the aspect ratio and I want to define the width, height and resolution of the document. And the Crop tool is going to enable us to do this in one step. So, let me show you what I mean. If we try to go into Image, to Image Size on this image and, let's say I want it to be four by five. If I enter five inches for the width, then I'm going to get 3.3 inches for the height. And if I enter in four for the height, then I'm going to get six inches for the width. And so, I'm never going to be able to enter in four by five unless I unlink these, but then that's going to distort the image. So, most people do this as a two-step process. I'll cancel out of…

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