ambersphotography

Well to show previews/ or a gallery to clients such as online proofing if we have an image that is off center that we need to fix how would you fix it without cropping? 

We typically show the master file in gallery's

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No we keep our master file saved uncropped! And we always crop the master file when sending it to the lab to print!... We edit every image before showing them to clients just because from past experience our sales are higher when doing that. In one of the links you sent me earlier it talked about freeform cropping in ACR. If we were to have an image that's a little off center or sideways does using the freeform cropping adjust that in raw with out messing with the file size? Or does freeform still lower your file size?

sorry I took that screen shot before I made the changes. This new screenshot shows sRGB mode at the the bottom but just says RGB in () behind the file name... Is that still correct?

Now that i've got that fixed it still doesn't give me a resolution box

and also you mentioned that the resolution should be random numbers but as that pictures shows above it's not

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LOL yes I do not crop to a 20x24 at 350 res anymore.  So I must be missing something somewhere in Photoshop CC.  When looking at the crop box at top there's where I will click ratio....the enter 11 and next box 15 but there is no other box that says anything about resolution.  So is there somewhere else I need to go?

I recently read your Article on Selling Digital Images and had a question about the cropping.   So to give you a better idea of my workflow; I pull raw images up in ACR do a few changes then up straight into Photoshop CC from there I will do all my editing then Crop last.  In the past I always cropped to a 20x24 inches with res at 350 (do not ask why I just did, ha old habit I guess).   So most of our clients order prints through us and some will get the copyrights.  My question is now after doing 11:15 ratio 0 resolution I feel when I go to print my files are smaller even my lab has called me about them.  So if I keep cropping at 11:15 ratio it seems great for the clients to download but for me and my printing not so much.  I am all about saving time and really don't want to save images 2 different ways.  And I tried the whole not cropping my image at all but sometimes with a moving toddler you can get that perfect shot but its off centered and you just have to crop.  So what would you do on cropping for you not the client.