![]() ![]() That little 'px' is absolutely crucial because if you don't type that sometimes it defaults to inches or centimeters or other crazy things. ![]() I'm going to type it in: 851 and now I'm going to type 'px' meaning pixels, and in the next field I'm going to type 315 and 'px' meaning pixels. If you know to do this, you can type the exact dimensions in here in pixels and Photoshop or Crop to exactly those pixel dimensions. It's not very easy to see those if there's no numbers in them and if you're not seeing the same thing I have here, check this little drop-down menu and make sure it says 'Width x Height x Resolution' that's the setting you want. We're going to start by selecting the Crop tool and you can see when you do there's some fields up here in the Toolbar - there's a little box here, and a box here, and a box here. ![]() ![]() Alright, here we are back to our original photo and this time we're going to do it right. The better way allows you to do it all in one step while choosing exactly the part of the photo that you want. Unfortunately it's not exactly the part of the photo that I wanted to use because I had to use that blunt tool of the Canvas Size and it also took a lot of time and a lot of fiddly little steps to get here.įortunately, there's a better way. Unfortunately if you don't like those three options you're kind of out of luck because this is a blunt tool. Now I have some options: is it going to leave it centered and trim off both sides? Or is it going to trim off the left side or trim off the right side? I think I'll leave it centered and let it trim equally from both sides. I'm going to go back to the Image Menu, pick Canvas Size and it's already the right height so I just need to change the width to 851. The easiest way to do that is to use the Canvas Size command which will just trim it to the exact size we want. But we can deal with that, we can crop it off. Now it's the right height but it's too wide, it's 1001 pixels wide. So now it's the right height but let's see. I'm going to go to Image Size and I'm going to make instead of 366 I'm going to make it 315. Alright, now I'm back to that first cropped version and now I have a brilliant idea this time instead of setting the width first, I'll set the height first since it's more than wide enough. Well now it's only 268 pixels high and I need to be 315, so there's nothing I can do by cropping it further to add more pixels. The problem is, though, how tall is it? Let me check the size. Usually the first thing you think of trying is, 'Well I'll just resize the photo and since it needs to be 851 pixels wide I'll just go make it that.' So I go to the Image Size menu and I'm going to change this and I'm going to make it 851. That's 1163 x 366 - obviously that won't do. That looks pretty good but the problem is it's not the right size. You use the crop tool right here on the tool palette and when you click on that it gives you these little handles that you can drag inside the image and you can make a suitable selection from the part that you think is what you want, then you can hit enter to crop it. If you've already taken my Photoshop Basics course then you know how we crop photos. So how the heck do you make your photo exactly that size? Well clearly this is a job for Photoshop and we're most likely going to need to crop the image in Photoshop. Let's say you want to make a new cover photo for your Facebook page and Facebook tells you to upload a photo that's exactly 851 x 315 pixels. Here's how this problem typically comes up. But there's also an easy one-step shortcut trick for doing it and that's what we're going to look at in this video. How do you get your photo exactly that size? There are a lot of ways to do it and most of them are frustrating, difficult and time-consuming. Say for example a website wants you to upload a photo that's exactly 800 x 600 pixels. One problem that comes up all the time when you're preparing photos for use on the web is how to crop them to exact pixel sizes. ![]()
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