tamurman Loc: Glasgow Sotland

when I crop a photo and try to print it it goes back to the original size. what am I doing wrong

G Brown Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK

Cropping cuts down your picture full stop - whats gone is gone ONCE YOU SAVE changes- you can print it at whatever size you want BUT the DPI reduces the bigger the print. most printer software defaults to full page with a border, 2 to a page 4 to a page etc etc or you need to specify in the printer setup pages the size of the image you want to print.
(usually around 200 - 300 dpi and the software will work out the edge lengths however you may end up with a postage stamp!)

other thing to look at is 'resize image' in your software and options to reprocess your small image into a bigger size. Visually a cropped image will appear resized on your computer screen where in reality it is just a fragment of the original size.

Agedwell Loc: Austin

This may be off base, but it sounds to me like you are failing to save the cropped image before printing. Some editing software won't print from the image you see on the monitor. Needs to print from a saved file. Maybe.

sarge69 Loc: Ft Myers, FL

Whenever I work on a photo in a folder:

1. File name is DSC0001.jpg
2. Save As: DSC0001c.jpg for compressed
3. Save As: DSC0001pp.jpg for post processing
4. Save As? DSC0001crop.jpg for cropped..

Never write over the original

Sarge69

LFingar Loc: Claverack, NY

What editing program are you using?

Jana-TAS Loc: Washington

Whenever I "downsize" a photo for posting in the groups or online I always do File Save As and then re title it as DS-_____ and the line being whatever the picture was titled. If I post a picture in a group I will put a "P" in front of that DS. Then I will not post the same pictures over and over again. When you have a lot of the same species of birds that feed at the same feeders all the time of course they can be different birds but your pictures are going to look the same so people might think you are posting the same pictures when you are truly not so I always put the "P" in front of the picture so I know which ones I have and have not done. So if you do not do that that is an idea for you.