Why can't the crop tool do this?

[Dubious Drewski]

The crop tool in photoshop requires you to enter a specific width and height into the boxes. You then drag your selection and photoshop crops and resamples. I wish I could choose to have no resampling done.

Why the heck can't I enter a ratio as a crop size instead of specific pixel measurements. Say I want a 2/3rds shaped image for printing a 4x6, but I do not want photoshop to blow up or shrink my image to do it.

Is there a way to do this?

 

[mfox]

Are you using CS4?
if u are "cropping" It shouldn't resample the image; If you are changing the image size them it resamples.

 

[Dubious Drewski]

I'm using CS3. Cropping does indeed resample your image. Try it: Enter very large numbers into the width and height boxes of the crop tool and then drag a very small square on your image and hit enter. The image will be resampled to the huge size.

Currently, the only way to get a crop selection at 2/3rds is to enter exact sizes into the width and height boxes, like 1600 px, 2400 px. This will give me 2/3rds, but it resamples the image to those pixel dimensions. Do you see what I mean?

Thanks for the help so far though.

 

[mfox]

Screen shot this, You probably have something ticked, I do not have CS3 anymore but you can crop in it.