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Resizing and copying images


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Bluie

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Hello
I am hoping to achieve quite a simple task.
I have a series of six images (exactly the same image) but saved at different sizes: saved at 100%, then 125%, up to 300%. The image at 100% shows a face about four feet away from the camera, while the image at 300% shows the face right up against the camera lens (or my desktop).
Basically, I am aiming for six photos that show the face getting closer and closer to the camera so, using the rectangle tool to copy the enlarged 300% face, for example, I go to File | New and click 'Paste'. The result is that I see the face as it is at 100% and not my desired 300%, although the image itself is only 16% of its real size in Photoshop.
How can I achieve the result I would like, please?
Many thanks
 
One way to accomplish this "ZOOM" effect, is by simply using the transform function.

Open your original.
Duplicate it.
Convert to a Smart Object.

(First option: At this point you can select your Crop Tool, tick "Delete cropped pixels" off, and create a window in the size you would like the final image to be in. This gives you the option of being able to move each transformed layer if needed, as in re-positioning.)

Hit Command + T and transform the image by holding shift + option and dragging a corner tab.
Duplicate the transformed layer.
Repeat the transform step.
Do this as many times as needed.

(Second option: when done, use your Crop Tool to make them all the same size.)

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Hello IamSam - Your screenshots illustrate just what I mean. However, when you say 'Convert to a Smart Object', I just can't see that at all. I have been here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photosh....html#WS00C8C50B-DA79-41cf-8D2A-0FAF176E8BE0a and those options, namely, Choose File > Open As Smart Object, select a file, and click Open.

Choose File > Place to import files as Smart Objects into an open Photoshop document.

I cannot find in my version (Photoshop CS). Maybe I am missing something! Thanks for your help.
 
Right click in the body of the layer within the layers panel.

Choose "Convert to Smart Object".

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Thanks for your replies.
I am trying to follow this video tutorial here:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WS41A5B796-6846-4e95-8459-95243441E126.html
The author in the tutorial has an image, dupliactes the layer, and presses Ctrl + t. I get a kind of frame around my image, reduce it, and I then press Enter. I want to make the image bigger again, so I again highlight my duplicate layer (called Background copy) and again press Ctrl + t. I stretch the image (holding the Shift key down and dragging on the diagonal corner).
This image is pixelated (destructive?) and I press Enter. Now I think is the problem. The tutorial refers to right-clicking on the smart object layer (I do not have that) and that is why, I suspect, I cannot see 'Convert to Smart Object).

With my duplicated layer still highlighted I right-click on the name of the layer (Background copy), and I see only this here: http://www.bayingwolf.com/gurus.jpg So this is where I think I am going wrong.
 
Bluie, you have smart objects.

Forget the video.

Highlight the layer you want to convert to a smart object.
Right click in the body of the layer.
Select "Convert to Smart Object".

Right click exactly where the arrow is pointing!!!!

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Did this work?

Once you have converted the layer to a smart object, you can transform the object up or down without distortion or destruction because Ps uses the source content of the original.
 
I have done it, but I can only resize (enlarge) the image without pixelising it, if I have the image open, click on Help and then Resize image - it's a kind of Resize wizard that opens up. Thanks to everyone for your help!
 
....but I can only resize (enlarge) the image without pixelising it,....

Nonsense.

....if I have the image open, click on Help and then Resize image - it's a kind of Resize wizard that opens up.....

Why would you click on help to resize? Just use Command + T!!!
 
Did you mean, IMAGE > IMAGE SIZE ?
Like in the following two images?
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If so, don't use this method.

This image is 300 x 303 pixels. (image size)

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This is the same image after I have converted it to a smart object and transformed it to a larger size.
The image size is still 300 x 303 pixels.

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The two are different. I used the transform method in my tutorial.
 
Please do not click on help! This is not how you change the image size! It also has nothing to do with creating smart objects!

You create a Smart object by highlighting the layer you want to convert and going to LAYER > SMART OBJECTS > CONVERT TO SMART OBJECT
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OR, by highlighting the layer you want to convert and right clicking the layer in the layers panel! (where I showed you with the arrow)

I just demonstrated in my previous post that you need to be using the Free Transform function and not IMAGE SIZE!

You can enter the transform function by going to EDIT > FREE TRANSFORM
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Or you can hit the Command/Control + T keys!

You can post images here on PSG.
Click on this icon in the reply window to add your image....
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IamSam said:
Once you have converted the layer to a smart object, you can transform the object up or down without distortion or destruction because Ps uses the source content of the original.
Click to expand...

Actually, this is incorrect. When converting a raster image to a smart object, you can only scale down and then back up to the original dimensions without losing quality. The real beauty is that is it non-destructive, as in, scaling changes are not permanent. But any time you scale more than 100% of the original, you can and do lose resolution. Again, the nice thing about smart objects is that you can scale back to the original and nothing has been lost in resolution or clarity.

Vectors objects may be scaled without resolution loss.
 
Yes, your right and I know this........but by this point, I had lost my initiative to explain things! I actually did not intend to add the "distortion" part.

I wish I had not mentioned smart objects at all!

I relinquish this matter to you!
 
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