Hi Dave,

Thanks for the reply. It still is not working how I want. If you have a
moment to see my reply in this thread to Katwoman I hope my description
s you understand my confusion.

What puzzles me is in ACR the crop tool seems to give me a true 100% crop,
that is, a crop without resize. It's still a pain to use but it works: I set
the values for the Crop tool in ACR to be the ratio I desire and then when I
drag a box and release the mouse, I can look at the info window and see the
size. Then I just keep moving the corners of the crop box very carefully to
make the box smaller or larger until I have a box at exactly 800x600. Then
when I convert from RAW to CS3 I have my perfect, "100% crop" at 800x600.

But I know there has got to be a better way, and I cannot even do this in
CS. I've actually converted JPEG to DNG so I can use the crop tool in ACR.

-Bob


"Dave" <d@d.durbs> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:36:17 -0800, "just bob" <kilbyfan@aol.com>
> wrote:
>
>>I need some basic understanding of the crop tool in CS. It seems to
>>interpolate when I crop. How to you tell the thing to crop at 100%?
>>
>>Also I would love to know for doing web images how I can specify say
>>800x600
>>pixels and be presented with a rectangle at that size and ratio ready to
>>crop at 100%.
>>
>>When I crop in ACR at least I know it's a 100% crop, and I will
>>painstakingly resize the crop window until I see the required dimensions
>>in
>>the info window before I move it to the position I want.
>>
>>I hope I'm just over thinking this but not sure what is going on!
>>
>>Thanks for your tips and tricks on this.
>>
>
>
> Hi Bob
>
> On the task bar (when the crop tool is opened) simply fill the wanted
> info into the width Height and Resolution blocks.
>
> Dave
>