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Windows freeware to lock in a 3: or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping
Do you know of Windows freeware that has the option to easily lock in a 3:2
or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping? I often create DIYs where it's nice to keep the cropped close photos at a standard aspect ratio of what most smartphones use, which seems to be 4:3, or to that of most 35mm cameras which seems to be 3:2 aspect ratio https://photo.stackexchange.com/ques...n-aspect-ratio I generally crop in Irfanview because it's so very fast & super easy (click, click, crop), but there is no way to lock the aspect ratio for that crop to 4:3 in Irfanview, nor in Pinta, MS Paint, or Paint 3D freeware. Microsoft Photos has an aspect ratio lock, but it's not easy to use as the image is blacked out except for the crop area, where you slide the underlying image about to crop. http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...ard0131bb4.jpg Do you know of Windows freeware that has the option to easily lock in a 3:2 or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping? |
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Windows freeware to lock in a 3: or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping
"ultred ragnusen" wrote
| Do you know of Windows freeware that has the option to easily lock in a 3:2 | or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping? This may or may not serve. It's not free, but you can use it for free if you don't mind a startup nag: https://www.jsware.net/jsware/pprep.php5 I wrote it mainly for a friend who was taking a lot of photos and wanted to be able to send them out for printing at specific ratios, for framing or for small photo prints of things like 100 vacation photos. It will batch crop to any ratio, doing an entire folder full. Of course, you don't always want to crop the same area, but for large numbers of images this will do it quickly and easily, and in most cases the crop will be fine. You can also pick the orientation. (Crop from center or a specific corner.) If you're picky about th exact crop area on every image then you probably want a fullscale graphic editor. This is designed to be simple, quick cropping and resizing, while retaining the best possible image quality when desired. (Crop a JPG and you'll lose some quality, but you can minimize the loss, or avoid it by saving as BMP.) |
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Windows freeware to lock in a 3: or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping
In article , Mayayana
wrote: This is designed to be simple, quick cropping and resizing, while retaining the best possible image quality when desired. (Crop a JPG and you'll lose some quality, not when it's a lossless or non-destructive crop. but you can minimize the loss, or avoid it by saving as BMP.) and drastically increase its size. |
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Windows freeware to lock in a 3: or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping
On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:50:48 -0500, nospam wrote:
This is designed to be simple, quick cropping and resizing, while retaining the best possible image quality when desired. (Crop a JPG and you'll lose some quality, not when it's a lossless or non-destructive crop. That's true for lossless. But the cropping itself is always destructive. but you can minimize the loss, or avoid it by saving as BMP.) and drastically increase its size. IMO, BMP should only be used when a software doesn't support a better image format. How it stores 24bpp image pixels is unacceptably wasteful. |
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Windows freeware to lock in a 3: or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping
In article , JJ
wrote: This is designed to be simple, quick cropping and resizing, while retaining the best possible image quality when desired. (Crop a JPG and you'll lose some quality, not when it's a lossless or non-destructive crop. That's true for lossless. But the cropping itself is always destructive. no it isn't. everything lightroom is non-destructive, including cropping. you can un-crop and/or re-crop at a later time. in photoshop, uncheck delete cropped pixels: https://pe-images.s3.amazonaws.com/p...and-straighten /non-destructive-crop/photoshop-delete-cropped-pixels-uncheck.png but you can minimize the loss, or avoid it by saving as BMP.) and drastically increase its size. IMO, BMP should only be used when a software doesn't support a better image format. How it stores 24bpp image pixels is unacceptably wasteful. bmp is obsolete. |
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Windows freeware to lock in a 3: or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping
"JJ" wrote
| IMO, BMP should only be used when a software doesn't support a better image | format. How it stores 24bpp image pixels is unacceptably wasteful. It depends on the situation. A BMP *is* the image. You can compress it as a TIF if you don't want to use the space, but the format is not wasteful. It's just not compressed. It's what all other formats decompress to. It's what gets displayed onscreen. It's the actual image data of a raster image. Surely you knew that? A BMP is *exactly* that. Aside from something like 22 bytes of header data, it's no more and no less than the record of the color of each pixel in the image grid of the image. It's what any graphic editor actually works with. You open an image, it's converted to a device independent bitmap, you edit it, then it's saved out again as whatever. There's no such thing as editing a TIF, GIF, PNG, JPG, etc. Those are just storage methods with different pros and cons. They're all storing a bitmap. (PNG and GIF can also offer transparency, but it's still a bitmap that's stored. The transparency is created by data that defines how the image gets displayed.) I suppose you could save as PNG, but neither TIF nor PNG is remarkable compression. JPG only exists because it has very good compression, it's royalty free, and it's cross-platform. The quality is poor, but it doesn't matter so much for web graphics and photos of trivia sent between iPhones. It's not a format for storing photos. Similarly with GIF: It's handy for creating small files and it's cross-platform, but it's lossy insofar as it reduces an image to 8-bit color. I sometimes save to TIF, but mostly I save as BMP if I expect to work on an image. I have plenty of room on disk. If ultred is going to print the images it may not matter much. But if he's going to do further editing there's no sense working in a lossy format just to save space. That's why I designed for JPG and BMP -- One for small-size images where quality isn't critical and one for serious image editing. |
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Windows freeware to lock in a 3: or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping
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RichA wrote: 4:3 IS the superior and more useful crop ratio. Always has been. nope. it depends on the subject. there is no single best aspect ratio for all situations. |
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Windows freeware to lock in a 3: or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping
In article , Mayayana
wrote: | IMO, BMP should only be used when a software doesn't support a better image | format. How it stores 24bpp image pixels is unacceptably wasteful. It depends on the situation. A BMP *is* the image. nope. a bmp is a representation of an image. You can compress it as a TIF if you don't want to use the space, but the format is not wasteful. It's just not compressed. in other words, wasteful. It's what all other formats decompress to. false. It's what gets displayed onscreen. also false. It's the actual image data of a raster image. Surely you knew that? given that it too is false, why would he? I suppose you could save as PNG, but neither TIF nor PNG is remarkable compression. JPG only exists because it has very good compression, it's royalty free, and it's cross-platform. The quality is poor, but it doesn't matter so much for web graphics and photos of trivia sent between iPhones. It's not a format for storing photos. nonsense. a high quality jpeg is visually indistinguishable from an uncompressed original (easy to prove). a low quality jpeg looks like crap, but that's an intentional choice made by the user, not a flaw in the format, and something that is rarely, if ever done. jpeg works quite well for storing photos if raw is not an option. there is also the issue that a given raw format might not be readable at some point in the future, whereas jpeg always will be. Similarly with GIF: It's handy for creating small files and it's cross-platform, but it's lossy insofar as it reduces an image to 8-bit color. that part is (mostly) true. 8 bit colour is not an issue if the gif is a graphic and not necessarily an issue for photos. gifs are also useful for animations or short video clips. you can find many of those at https://giphy.com. |
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Windows freeware to lock in a 3: or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping
RichA wrote:
On Saturday, 17 February 2018 19:00:59 UTC-5, ultred ragnusen wrote: Do you know of Windows freeware that has the option to easily lock in a 3:2 or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping? I often create DIYs where it's nice to keep the cropped close photos at a standard aspect ratio of what most smartphones use, which seems to be 4:3, or to that of most 35mm cameras which seems to be 3:2 aspect ratio https://photo.stackexchange.com/ques...n-aspect-ratio I generally crop in Irfanview because it's so very fast & super easy (click, click, crop), but there is no way to lock the aspect ratio for that crop to 4:3 in Irfanview, nor in Pinta, MS Paint, or Paint 3D freeware. Microsoft Photos has an aspect ratio lock, but it's not easy to use as the image is blacked out except for the crop area, where you slide the underlying image about to crop. http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...ard0131bb4.jpg Do you know of Windows freeware that has the option to easily lock in a 3:2 or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping? 4:3 IS the superior and more useful crop ratio. Always has been. Why do you believe 4:3 is in anyway superior to any other crop ratio? Try 9:16 on a wide aspect ratio display, or for panos. Then there is the option of shooting native 3:2, or 1:1 in-camera. All work well for their particular intent, composition, and/or purpose. -- Regards, Savageduck |
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Windows freeware to lock in a 3: or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping
On 2018-02-18 06:29:24 +0000, Savageduck said:
RichA wrote: On Saturday, 17 February 2018 19:00:59 UTC-5, ultred ragnusen wrote: Do you know of Windows freeware that has the option to easily lock in a 3:2 or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping? I often create DIYs where it's nice to keep the cropped close photos at a standard aspect ratio of what most smartphones use, which seems to be 4:3, or to that of most 35mm cameras which seems to be 3:2 aspect ratio https://photo.stackexchange.com/ques...n-aspect-ratio I generally crop in Irfanview because it's so very fast & super easy (click, click, crop), but there is no way to lock the aspect ratio for that crop to 4:3 in Irfanview, nor in Pinta, MS Paint, or Paint 3D freeware. Microsoft Photos has an aspect ratio lock, but it's not easy to use as the image is blacked out except for the crop area, where you slide the underlying image about to crop. http://wetakepic.com/images/2018/02/...ard0131bb4.jpg Do you know of Windows freeware that has the option to easily lock in a 3:2 or 4:3 aspect ratio for cropping? 4:3 IS the superior and more useful crop ratio. Always has been. Why do you believe 4:3 is in anyway superior to any other crop ratio? Try 9:16 on a wide aspect ratio display, or for panos. Then there is the option of shooting native 3:2, or 1:1 in-camera. All work well for their particular intent, composition, and/or purpose. Looking yourself into a single crop ratio is volunteering into silly dogma! :-ppp -- teleportation kills |
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