Crop & Resize

[boele]

I have a question regarding editing in CS3:

When do you crop & resize, before or after editing/sharpening etc.

Thanks in advance.

René.

[bigfoot]

Cropping is the very first thing I do after opening the RAW-file. The sharpening is the very last thing I do before saving it.

[Flyboy]

In addition to the above:
The only thing I do before cropping is the removal of vignetting. This because you want to remove the vignetting from the entire frame so that the dark edges are gone. Then when the entire frame is evenly distributed you can crop.

resizing is somthing different: to make the size smaller is no problem, although you might want to do some editing in the larger size, because you may have more 'space' to do your edditing.
Increasing the size must fit in your workflow: for example it may bennefit to blow up after noise removal.

succes,
Marc

[gatso76]

I use CS2...

Open RAW and work on in (like shadows, brightness, contrast, saturation and so on),
Save as JPG,
Open JPG,
Check horizon,
Crop,
Resize,
Noise Reduction,
Unsharp Mask,
Save

I am not a CS2 'master' but I think these are the 'basic' actions... ...allthough it all starts with a 'good' picture because I use PhotoShop only to 'finetune' the picture for the 'best' result.

[Flyboy]

Open RAW and work on in (like shadows, brightness, contrast, saturation and so on),
Save as JPG,
Open JPG,
...

Mind that every time you save as JPG the pic is compresses. This means that with this workflow you compres the picture twice leading to more loss.
Better to perform all the work and then save at the end.

succes,
Marc

[Redskin301]

Open RAW and work on in (like shadows, brightness, contrast, saturation and so on),
Save as JPG,
Open JPG,
...

Mind that every time you save as JPG the pic is compresses. This means that with this workflow you compres the picture twice leading to more loss.
Better to perform all the work and then save at the end.

Haha, I only work with files in PSD format and all layers from editing are still intact. I only export them as jpg when i want to publish them somewhere on the web... =]

Mijn versimpelde workflow globaal weergegeven als antwoord op je vraag:
- Edit RAW
- Open in photoshop as PSD file
- Sharpening via anti alias macro which i created for myself
- crop and level
- Final sharpening =]

[Key]

When do you crop & resize, before or after editing/sharpening etc.

I sharpen for the intended format, i.e. always sharpen after resize (-> the last step before saving the result). Cropping depends on what I intend to do with the file I'm working on.

Erik