After learning this trick, I rarely do a 'true' crop anymore in photoshop.

You can do a 'crop' that does not eliminate any information, it just hides it. It is more like putting on a "matt" that hides info. If you change your mind, or change the ratio, or need to move the "matt" around to display a different area, you still have all the original info that you would have lost during a crop.

a) You can not have a background layer. Double click the background layer and rename it to a regular layer.
b) Using the crop tool in the normal manner, setup your crop. Before you execute the crop, select "hide" in the cropping tool menu. It will appear after you select the area that you want to crop, but before you confirm it.
c) After you crop by hiding, you can use the move tool to move the layer around and reposition the image under the "matt".
d) If you decide that you want to enlarge the cropped area (display more of the image), enlarge the size of the canvas.

Photoshop treats the matted display area as the presentation area, so printing only prints the matted area, as does web generation.

By this simple trick, you never have to worry about saving multiple copies with different cropping ratios.

Edward

Hubert Williams wrote:
> without cropping is there a way to make a true 8x10 in photoshop??
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> The diffference is you ...IOU ©