In today’s Found on the Met, I thought I would share Constant Contact’s listing of the correct sizes for cropping and output for various images used in social media. Never have social media crop your images against your wishes again!
Rikk Flohr © 2015
I ran into this graphic the other day on the internet. It would be great to give attribution to this image, its author or the site from which it came but thus far, I haven’t found out its origin.
This image shows you the pixel dimensions of the basic Facebook™ page. If you’ve ever struggled with getting the banner image aka Cover Photo to fit, now you know how to crop and then size it. Confounded by the Profile Picture format? Now you know: Make it square an realize that 160 pixels is going to get you where you need to be. (Unless you want a big ‘if clicked’ image)
I hope this helps you make your Facebook page a showcase. If you find out whose graphic this is, let me know so that I can add attribution.
Rikk Flohr – The Cropist © 2012
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has been my go-to package for doing the initial editing to my digital photographs. I prefer its cropping via the Develop Module to all other programs in my arsenal. At 12:01 AM ET on June 8th, Adobe announced the much-anticipated version 3.0 for release and downloading. Here is a summary of the crop-related enhancements in Version 3.0
In previous versions of Lightroom, common sizes of final output were individual even though they were the same aspect ratio. 4×5 and 8X10 are now combined as are 2×3 and 4×6. Aspect ratios are sorted in decimal order from 1.0 backwards to .66
Lightroom 3.0 features a Lens Correction Panel that allows for corrections in Lens Distortion and Perspective Adjustments. Changing these adjustment can, by default, cause an image crop by eliminating pixels from the rectangular image area. Checking Constrain to Warp in the Crop Tool Panel auto-crops the image to the maximum usable area. Constrain Crop can also be found in the Manual Section of the Lens Correction Panel
When Info is selected [I] and one of your Info Displays contains Cropped Dimensions as one of the item options, the cropped dimensions are updated after release of the cropping handle rather than after application of the crop.
This is a biggie, folks! The orientation of a crop can be changed from Landscape to Portrait and back again by the invoking of the [X] shortcut while in Crop Mode. No more guesswork is needed in changing a crop’s aspect ratio.
A new tool bar appears at the bottom of the Image View of the Develop Module with the option to control the Tool Overlay (Crop Overlays such as grid, rule of thirds, golden ratio, etc) as well as a [Done] button to finish the crop .
All in all, for just the simple operation of cropping an image, LR 3.0 delivers markedly increased functionality. We can now crop with greater precision and control. Our workflow is much faster now, satisfying the goal of every photographer stuck behind the computer.
Happy Cropping!
You can see a more comprehensive list of LR 3.0’s favorite new features at my Fleeting Glimpse Images Blog.
Rikk Flohr © 2010
