However, when you size the image to fill within the inside guides, there’s white space left over on the top and bottom. Now from the Size Presets choose NTSC D1 Widescreen Square Pixel (as shown above), and it creates a new document with guides already in place for a widescreen image like the one we captured in Lightroom. To find this, press Command-N (PC: Ctrl-N) to bring up the New Document window, then choose Film & Video from the Preset pop-up near the top.
PHOTOSHOP CROP PHOTO MOVIE
We even brought Corey Barker over to look at it, since he’s a total movie freak, because we though if anyone would know how this relates to a movie style cropping, he would know.Īs it turns out, Photoshop has a built-in New Document Preset that was literally within a pixel or two of being the exact same cropping ratio as what we had captured in Lightroom. We made some screen captures of the image in Lightroom with that on-screen cropped look, and then starting counting pixels. So, he and I spent a while trying to figure out exactly what this wide cropping ratio was, and how we could apply that widescreen crop to our images in Photoshop the easy way.
Next stop, RC Concepcion’s office and when I showed him this on one of his photos in Lightroom-he loved it.īut it was when RC said, “I kind of makes it look like a widescreen movie,” that it hit me why I liked it so much-it’s got that cinematic movie feel to it. Normally, when I want to focus on just the photo, without all the distractions of Lightroom’s panels, I press Shift-Tab, which hides the top, bottom and side panels from view, so all you see is the photo, but on this particular day, instead I hid just the side panels (as seen above), and I’m looking at the screen and I’m thinking “Man, that wide cropping really looks kind of cool.” I didn’t quite know at the time why, but I went over to Matt Kloskowski’s office and he loved it. I normally work in a view called “Fit” which fits your entire image inside the center preview area, with a bit of gray canvas area around it (as seen above).īut for some reason, on this particular day I had my View set to Fill (so your image fills the entire center preview window, as seen above). The idea for this came to me while I’m working in Lightroom one day. Simplifying saves a lot of space that's what I do once I know that the smart layers are correctly sized.This is one of those things you just kind of stumble upon, and think to yourself, “Hey, that looks kinda cool,” but you’re not sure why (well, now I know why, but I didn’t when I first found it). You'll also note that a number of edits you can do on a layer, including 'cropping', are not possible on smart layers, you have to simplify in order to throw away pixels.Īnother thing to keep in mind: when you save your layered file (psd or tiff), a copy of each original for the smart layers is stored in your file, which can produce huge size files.
That is no longer the case once you have simplified. You can reduce the size and increase it, there is no quality loss.
The smart layer always calculates what is shown from the original. You can see what would be the result of 'simplifying' (also called 'rasterizing') the image when you resize, move or rotate the smart layer.
The explanation is that in the recent Elements versions, when you are dragging a file from your photo bin on the bottom into the edited space, that puts a layer over the background, but not a 'normal' layer made of pixels, only a sort of temporarry image created from a link to the original file you are dragging. I have done a few pictures this way in my collage and it is working. When I look in the history it says I a "Rasterize the Layer" each time I say ok. I click yes and then it lets me hit delete. "This smart layer must be simplified before it can be edited. I noticed after selecting the area and then inverting the selected area, when I hit delete I got this message.
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