How Cropped Images Move Through ProSelect

Understanding how cropping behaves across different areas of ProSelect is important.  Crops are intentionally managed differently depending on the working mode you are in.  Images in Working with Images remain the clean, master versions.  Products and Rooms adopt crops only when locked or explicitly set.  Once an image becomes a product, it carries forward all necessary attributes for ordering and presentation.

Working with Images

• Always displays your clean, original images.
• Any crop applied here will carry over into slideshows.
• Crops made here are also applied when ordering digital files.
• To ensure a crop is maintained, you should lock it in Cropping View.  A locked crop is indicated by a red crop box.

Working with Slideshows

• Images displayed in a slideshow will use the current crop set in Working with Images.

Working with Products

• When you move an image into this area, ProSelect automatically treats it as a product and applies your default Starting Product (for example, a 24" x 30" Lustre Print).
• Once designated as a product, the image now has all attributes required for ordering: crop, size, and presentation option.
• If the crop was locked in Working with Images, that locked crop is respected when the image becomes a product.
• Adjusting a crop within this mode only affects the product version of the image, not the original in Working with Images.

Working with Rooms

• Adding an image directly to a room displays it with product-like attributes, but it does not formally become a product until ordered.
• A locked crop from Working with Images carries over into the room.  For example, a square-locked crop will show as a 30" x 30" Lustre Print.
• If you resize or change the displayed size in Room View, ProSelect automatically switches you to the appropriate Paper Size folder.
• This allows you to demonstrate scale and options without duplicating or altering the original file.