silvercobra
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I wasn't really sure how to word the title. Here is my problem. I am a freelance photographer that started using photoshop about a month ago, CS5. I am trying to create some pictures for my local state fair that need to be 8x10. To prevent my local camera shop from cropping my pictures when I print them, I am trying to crop them to 8x10 format before-hand.
In photoshop with the crop tool selected at the top I set the width to 10in and the height to 8in or vice versa depending on the orientation of the picture and cop it that way. Normally I only have to remove a very small portion of my picture, maybe an inch off the side.
Here is my problem, when I crop the photo, my file size goes down from 6.79MB to 1.16MB or sometimes under 1MB. I know I am not taking that much of the photo away, I am just taking a bit off the edges. I have used other programs and to get this small of a file size I would have to crop a tiny square around an object, erasing 3/4 of the picture. Yet I am only removing maybe 1/10th of the picture, if that, and my size is going down so much.
As I am trying to print these I of course want the largest file size possible to retain all the detail, I know somewhere around 300-400KB does NOT look good at all for an 8x10.
Is photoshop compressing my picture as it crops it or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks for any advice!
In photoshop with the crop tool selected at the top I set the width to 10in and the height to 8in or vice versa depending on the orientation of the picture and cop it that way. Normally I only have to remove a very small portion of my picture, maybe an inch off the side.
Here is my problem, when I crop the photo, my file size goes down from 6.79MB to 1.16MB or sometimes under 1MB. I know I am not taking that much of the photo away, I am just taking a bit off the edges. I have used other programs and to get this small of a file size I would have to crop a tiny square around an object, erasing 3/4 of the picture. Yet I am only removing maybe 1/10th of the picture, if that, and my size is going down so much.
As I am trying to print these I of course want the largest file size possible to retain all the detail, I know somewhere around 300-400KB does NOT look good at all for an 8x10.
Is photoshop compressing my picture as it crops it or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks for any advice!
