There are a lot of fantanstic new features in PhotoPaint X4, but one that I was hoping to see didn't show up. Or, maybe I'm just not getting it.
What I'd like to do is crop part of a photo to a predetermined size. For example, set width and depth to 3.09in by 2.78in, set the resolution to 300, draw the crop border around the area I want cropped at that size, and double click to do it. Then, when I import that photo into CorelDraw it is exactly 3.09in wide by 2.78in deep.
Right now, I'm going out to my long-in-the-tooth PhotoShop 5.0 LE to do that simple crop task, but I prefer doing everything from within PhotoPaint because I really love the cut-out feature (greatly enhanced in X4 by the way), which I use a lot.
Am I just not getting it, or is it not possible?
Thanks for any help anybody can give me.
Dave
Hi Foster,
Thanks for getting back so quickly.
Unfortunately, that's not what I'm looking to do. What I want is a finished crop exactly the size I need to fill a certain-size hole in CorelDraw. When I draw the crop box first, then set the size, two things happen that don't work for me. First, I don't know how much of the photo I can crop to based on the hole size I have to fill in CorelDraw. Second, when I set the size of the cropped area, the crop box shrinks or expands. If I drag the handles to resize it, the finished crop is anything but the original size I needed.
In PhotoShop, I set the exact size I need to fill the hole in CorelDraw, grab the crop tool, drag it around the area I want cropped, double-click, and that's that. When I import it into CorelDraw it fits perfectly.
Maybe there's something I'm still not getting.