Cropping on Photobucket?

[HoldyourfireAl]

Originally Posted by Tyz1on

Is this what you had in mind Al ?

More or less...

How did you do it?

[HoldyourfireAl]

Also, any recommendations for a good forum to learn Photoshop?

[Tyz1on]

Well I took the biggest resolution pic you had used the rectangular marquee tool and drew a square around the part of the pic I wanted to keep which was the spider centered and did edit-copy, then file-new-paste. Then Image-Image size. I made the new pic 280 resolution and 1080 high x 777 high.

[HoldyourfireAl]

Hmmm...still confused.

[Tyz1on]

K let's try this

Step 1- Open the pic
Step 2 - Use the rectangular marquee to select the part of the pic you want



Step 3 - Once it's selected click "Edit" Select "Copy"



Step 4 - Click "File" and select "New"



Step 5 - When the new text box opens Click "OK"

[Tyz1on]

Step 6 - When the new graphic box opens click "Edit" and select "Paste"



Step 7 - Now you have the cropped pic but you still need to re-size it. Click "Image" select "Image Size"



Step 8 - When the Image Size text box opens I type "280" in the resolution box, and 1080 in the height box. As long constrain proportions is selected the rest of the boxes fill in automatically. For portrait type pics and I use 1080 in height box and 1080 in the width box for landscape type pics.



Hope this helps Al.

[P1X4R]

nice step-by-step Tyz1on!

[HoldyourfireAl]

I'll try it tonight! Thanks so much for your help! I know that last night, I was using the Marquee tool & it didn't cover the whole spider. Was I doing something wrong?

[hazmatt]

Originally Posted by HoldyourfireAl

last night, I was using the Marquee tool & it didn't cover the whole spider. Was I doing something wrong?

probably

you can also use the crop tool to crop the picture. then 'save as' to preserve the original. reduce the image size on the cropped file and save once more. done.

[Tyz1on]

Originally Posted by HoldyourfireAl

I'll try it tonight! Thanks so much for your help! I know that last night, I was using the Marquee tool & it didn't cover the whole spider. Was I doing something wrong?

You're quite welcome Al. With the marquee tool it's a simple left click where you want the new pic to start and drag the cursor to where you want the new pic to end. I usually start in an upper corner and drag the cursor to the opposite bottom corner and release. If I make a mistake and miss part of the picture just reclick somewhere else and the marquee starts again.