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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 I often want to use only a portion of the image, change the aspect ratio, and define the width, height and resolution of the document. The Crop Tool is going to enable us to do this, in one step. So first let's just look at image size. I choose Image, and then Image Size, if I want to print this image at four by five at 300 pixels per inch, when I change the width to five, well the height changes to 3.333. So it's not a five by four. If I change the height to four, well now I've got a width of six. So that's because these files are the two by three aspect ratio, not at a four by five aspect ratio, so we're never going to succeed in the Image Size Dialog Box, unless we unlink this, but then that would…

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