Photoshop Tip: Resizing Images
1) He waited till the end to mention the MOST important part... ALWAYS save your photo as a new image first, before you start playing around with resizing... Just go to File, then Save As... and create a new file. Or, duplicate the image under Image in CS, or under File in Elements. Point is, if you accidently ruin the original image, you won't be happy...
2) The crop tool has settings under the top menu bar to set a specific height and width. You do not have to set a resolution. if you just set height and width, the tool will crop without resizing, in the proper proportion, which can be of great benefit and worth playing with to get comfortable. However, if you do crop images (not vectors or text), you will lose the parts of the image that were cropped off. So if you have an image on a layer, and then try to move the image around on the canvas after it was cropped...the original image won't extend the boundaries of the layer, for additional movement or adjustment on the layer, like a little higher or lower. However, if you first convert your image layer to a smart object, then crop, then the canvas is all that's cropped, which will hide some of the (smart object) image, but you can then move your image around and you haven't lost anything...you just cropped the canvas size.
Okay, that may be a little confusing, and you may think, well, why not just adjust the canvas size...and not crop. It's because the Crop tool gives you complete control of where you want to crop and can even resize and crop at the same time by setting the resolution.
Final note...don't forget point #1 above!
Jamie@Photobacks wrote: Nice video...couple responses on resizing in Photoshop:
1) He waited till the end to mention the MOST important part... ALWAYS save your photo as a new image first, before you start playing around with resizing... Just go to File, then Save As... and create a new file. Or, duplicate the image under Image in CS, or under File in Elements. Point is, if you accidently ruin the original image, you won't be happy...
2) The crop tool has settings under the top menu bar to set a specific height and width. You do not have to set a resolution. if you just set height and width, the tool will crop without resizing, in the proper proportion, which can be of great benefit and worth playing with to get comfortable. However, if you do crop images (not vectors or text), you will lose the parts of the image that were cropped off. So if you have an image on a layer, and then try to move the image around on the canvas after it was cropped...the original image won't extend the boundaries of the layer, for additional movement or adjustment on the layer, like a little higher or lower. However, if you first convert your image layer to a smart object, then crop, then the canvas is all that's cropped, which will hide some of the (smart object) image, but you can then move your image around and you haven't lost anything...you just cropped the canvas size.
Okay, that may be a little confusing, and you may think, well, why not just adjust the canvas size...and not crop. It's because the Crop tool gives you complete control of where you want to crop and can even resize and crop at the same time by setting the resolution.
Final note...don't forget point #1 above!
Good point
always nice to get addition views and tips 
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