Photoshop Crop Tool ???

[Tom Maxwell]

When working through a lot of images from a portrait session I try to crop my D1X images into a 4x5 aspect ratio so the customer can see what the standard crop will be. However, as I work through them, I often encounter vertical format images as well as horizontal format images. It is slow and a pain in the rear to be changing the PS crop tool from 4x5 to 5x4. Is there a hot key that will swap these dimensions similar to the way the X key swaps the foreground/background colors? I can create an action to do it but thought maybe there is already a hot key to do so.

 

[Luis E Limon]

why not just swap the image. or better you can make your vertical, horizontal croping action

When working through a lot of images from a portrait session I try
to crop my D1X images into a 4x5 aspect ratio so the customer can
see what the standard crop will be. However, as I work through
them, I often encounter vertical format images as well as
horizontal format images. It is slow and a pain in the rear to be
changing the PS crop tool from 4x5 to 5x4. Is there a hot key that
will swap these dimensions similar to the way the X key swaps the
foreground/background colors? I can create an action to do it but
thought maybe there is already a hot key to do so.

--E-20, C-3030 and E-100rs happy owner

 

[Gayla Fox46777]

wish I knew, I woudl love to use that feature too. I searched my photoshop sources.... no answer... sorry.

When working through a lot of images from a portrait session I try
to crop my D1X images into a 4x5 aspect ratio so the customer can
see what the standard crop will be. However, as I work through
them, I often encounter vertical format images as well as
horizontal format images. It is slow and a pain in the rear to be
changing the PS crop tool from 4x5 to 5x4. Is there a hot key that
will swap these dimensions similar to the way the X key swaps the
foreground/background colors? I can create an action to do it but
thought maybe there is already a hot key to do so.

 

[Richard Goulden]

Hi Tom,

Hhere are a couple of a suggestions. Why not use the marquee tool at either fixed size or apect ratio for portrait and use the crop command in the image menu for landscape. That way you just hit the letter "C" for crop and "M" for the marquee.

Actions will not give you what you need unless you want to do the same crop every time.

I personally would split the portrait from the landscape using something like iView Media Pro into separate folders if I had a load of them to do.

Hope this helps,

Regards,

Richard

When working through a lot of images from a portrait session I try
to crop my D1X images into a 4x5 aspect ratio so the customer can
see what the standard crop will be. However, as I work through
them, I often encounter vertical format images as well as
horizontal format images. It is slow and a pain in the rear to be
changing the PS crop tool from 4x5 to 5x4. Is there a hot key that
will swap these dimensions similar to the way the X key swaps the
foreground/background colors? I can create an action to do it but
thought maybe there is already a hot key to do so.

 

[Laurentiu Todie]

If you print from Photoshop, you could make a master file with two layer masks and drag the one you need to each new picture.
If you print from Quark, you don't need to crop.

 

[Martin Greeson]

Hi,

I use a fuji S1 and when I open my images they are all horizontal so I crop they use the crop tool to the same size then rotate them using rotate image. Does you camera rotate in camera? If it does turn it off since that reduces the view size on the LCD.

Martin

When working through a lot of images from a portrait session I try
to crop my D1X images into a 4x5 aspect ratio so the customer can
see what the standard crop will be. However, as I work through
them, I often encounter vertical format images as well as
horizontal format images. It is slow and a pain in the rear to be
changing the PS crop tool from 4x5 to 5x4. Is there a hot key that
will swap these dimensions similar to the way the X key swaps the
foreground/background colors? I can create an action to do it but
thought maybe there is already a hot key to do so.

--
E-20, C-3030 and E-100rs happy owner