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N. Herring
10-28-2009, 07:06 PM
Have a new pic that got rejected this morning for Bad Cropping:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject.php?id=745486&key=1254796347

Thinking i see what caused the rejection, I crop some off the bottom and resubmit, this time getting unsharpened (soft)

http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject.php?id=745568&key=139123310

Should I just give up on this one or start over and do the cropping first.
Joe the Photog
10-28-2009, 11:52 PM
I always start over with an unprocessed shot when I need to crop down again. So I'd start over and crop some off the top, bottom and right of the picture. Since the train is the only element of the shot, it needs to be larger in the frame.
N. Herring
10-29-2009, 03:34 AM
I always start over with an unprocessed shot when I need to crop down again. So I'd start over and crop some off the top, bottom and right of the picture. Since the train is the only element of the shot, it needs to be larger in the frame.

ok so crop it first then work on it? for some reason my editor wont allow me to crop, i have to use a seperate program to edit it
Ween
10-29-2009, 03:41 AM
ok so crop it first then work on it? for some reason my editor wont allow me to crop, i have to use a seperate program to edit it

Wait. What? I thought you used Photoshop CS2:
http://forums.railpictures.net/showpost.php?p=101918&postcount=1
N. Herring
10-29-2009, 03:52 AM
Wait. What? I thought you used Photoshop CS2:
http://forums.railpictures.net/showpost.php?p=101918&postcount=1

i do but when i go to Image the dropdown list has crop but it is never clickable, of course i am all for figuring out how to do that so I can use CS2 and be done with it
Ween
10-29-2009, 03:55 AM
Search "How to crop with CS2" on Google...
N. Herring
10-29-2009, 03:59 AM
Search "How to crop with CS2" on Google...

actually i figured out by mistake :lol: I forgot i had a link to a photoshop cs2 help book

ok here is what I have, how is it, dimensions are 1000x602 which is cutting it pretty close isnt it?

4804
John Fladung
10-29-2009, 04:06 AM
Search "How to crop with CS2" on Google...


To take one out of Jim Thias' book of tricks, I can help with that.
(http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+to+crop+with+CS2)
Joe the Photog
10-29-2009, 04:11 AM
ok so crop it first then work on it?
I typically do all of my work before cropping. I edit from the RAW file, then save a large JPEG version of the shot with all of the edits done. Then I resize. I believe Jim Thias crops, then edits. It's like good vegetable soup. Lots of different ways to get a great tasting bowl of soup.
N. Herring
10-29-2009, 02:04 PM
Ok got rejected again for bad color, did I use too much saturation

http://www.railpictures.net/viewreject.php?id=745806&key=0
MDH
10-29-2009, 02:11 PM
Unless I missed a comment about it somewhere in all the "how to" replies isn't part of the "bad cropping" reject in this case due to the train being cut off by the frame on the left side? (plus a little too much right & bottom)

Do you have a shot that doesn't cut off the train?
N. Herring
10-29-2009, 02:19 PM
Unless I missed a comment about it somewhere in all the "how to" replies isn't part of the "bad cropping" reject in this case due to the train being cut off by the frame on the left side? (plus a little too much right & bottom)

Do you have a shot that doesn't cut off the train?

no thats the only shot i have
Chase55671
10-29-2009, 07:13 PM
actually i figured out by mistake :lol: I forgot i had a link to a photoshop cs2 help book

ok here is what I have, how is it, dimensions are 1000x602 which is cutting it pretty close isnt it?

4804

602 is beyond cutting it close. I think the minimum is 652 or perhaps 654.

Chase
Dan Tracy
10-31-2009, 05:09 AM
Try rotating the image to level the engine and then go from there. You can do this in CS2.