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Good day members, I'm new to the tshirt forum and new to tshirt-forum.com, I'm having a website designer create website for my tshirt company and for the thumbnails of the tshirts, the size restriction is 72x72, most of the pictures that my camera takes if not all are 480x360 @ 96 dpi- is it possible to crop it to 72x72 and still see the thumbnail. I'm asking because I've not purchased photoshop yet and the designer is about to hand the project over to me as completed. I just want to make sure that its possible to crop a picture of that size to dimensions that small. Thanks.
It certainly is something you can do in Photoshop, Gimp, CorelDRAW, even Microsoft Office Picture Manager. But a 72 x72 pixel image of a t-shirt does not seem desirable, not even for a thumbnail of a t-shirt that gets you to a big image of the shirt.
I havent figured out how to crop an exact square easily in photoshop easily, though I can do it by cutting and pasting the original image to 72 X ?? whatever, then selecting all and copying onto a new canvas of 72 X 72.
However in windows photo galary (my default double click on Windows Vista) there is a fix button and you can choose a square and get perfect squares about 80% of the time, sometimes you might have to crop it again.)
You can then take that perfect square back to photoshop and reduce it as you please. 72 x 72 is too small btw
You don't need to crop it, so to speak, you can just go to the image pull down menu up top and change the size there.
You can leave the constrain image box checked or uncheck it. Depends if the original image is perfectly square or not. Also, whenever you reduce an image in PS make sure you go to the filters pull down menu and choose Sharpen to bring it back into optimal clarity.
Using a thumbnail is ok, but it depends how much quality you stand to lose in that small image and whether or not you will lose the attention of your captive audience. Only go as small as absolutely necessary.
this is how to crop specific dimension in photoshop (in this case 72pixels x 72 pixels)....
....it's the same procedure if you want a dimension in INCHES or CENTIMETER or MILLIMETER
inches: 72in x 72in (please note the "in" after the figure, if "in" is not your default UNIT of measurement).
centimeter: 72cm x 72cm (note the "cm".........................)
...so on and so forth....
Last edited by texasmoma; July 18th, 2009 at 12:53 AM.
Just to note Terms are being mixed up here in the posts.
Cropping refers to the removal of the outer parts of an image to improve framing, accentuate subject matter or change aspect ratio.
Scaling / Image Scaling refers to the resizing of an image
Scaling is actually what you are wanting if the entire image needs to be 72X72 pixels. If only a part is needed than you are needing to Crop the image.
cropping in photoshop 
