Cropping without decreasing photo quality

[iDad]

You didn't forget us Macs...lol yadaman Steve!.

[Gaussian]

Alt+Option on iDad's computer

Haha, nice one Steve.

[Steve]

Haha, nice one Steve.

Yeah the same keyboard shortcuts that work on a Mac work on iDad's Commodore 64, isn't that right iDad?

[iDad]

Be afraid Steve.... Be very afraid!....

[Steve]

Hey I'm not making fun of your computer, it's newer than my TRS 80.

[iDad]

LOL I know just bustinem

[iDad]

After all you wear sunglasses you can't be all bad LOL

[Teddy]

Crop the image. Then create a new file, then try to change the resolution from 72px to 170px. Paste the image on the new file. Hope this helps.

[schoelchybear]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your instructions.

I opened a 4.7MB image. Original Image Size was 3872 pixels (width) and 2592 pixels (height)

After cropping it only by a small amount (i.e. just the outside edges), image size was a much smaller 487 pixels (width) and 417 pixels (height).

Thanks Again!

p.s. in addition to my original query, how do I change crop so that I can crop shapes other than a perfect square (I tried holding shift but it didn't change anything)

[schoelchybear]

Sorry didn't mean to exclude everyone else who offered advice, didn't realise there was a 2nd page of comments (still adjusting to this forum business)

Cheers