I know how to crop in Preview. What I'm trying to do is crop a specific area of a picture while keeping the pictures original 8.5 x 11 aspect ratio. Is there a way to automatically keep this aspect ratio instead of having to maually guess? I always end up with a cropped picture that's slightly too tall or too wide.
Thanks for your help.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2.53Ghz Core Duo 500 GB HD
Not sure if something has changed since this answer but when I hold down the SHIFT key it changes the selection to a square. When I let go it stays the same. Any ideas why this is happening?
I have Sierra 10.12.6 on a late 2013 iMac.
Not sure if something has changed since this answer but when I hold down the SHIFT key it changes the selection to a square. When I let go it stays the same. Any ideas why this is happening?
I have Sierra 10.12.6 on a late 2013 iMac.
None that I know about; however, once cropped select CMD+OPT+S to reset the size. Do note, that you might lose the proportionality aspect, since you've changed the original's via the crop.😉
Nor, surprisingly will iPhoto, unless the option has been added in '11.
Photoshop Elements will, so will Graphic Converter (with greater flexibility). You require the 'scale' function which may be a subset of 'resize'.
The answer is very easy, hit Control+A to select the entire photo and go to a corner and hold down the SHIFT key while dragging a corner to the center of the photo. You will see the box change to a rectangle (not sure why it does this) and it seems not to be working, but once you let go of the SHIFT key the box will change back to the dimension of the image and you will be able to crop it at this point while keeping the same ratio of the original photo.
How can I keep the same dimensions while cropping in Preview?
