Image cropping to specific size/format

[Screwball]

This question is difficult to explain exactly what I want (and probably difficult to understand also) - I'll try.
I have many images of various dimensions, both portrait and landscape. What I want to achieve is to have a set 'capture frame' size that is perfect for viewing on TV which I can can hover over a graphic image and click to capture the cropped image the size of my frame.
My method at the moment is to:-
Shrink the image to desired width then continually crop until the required height is achieved. In PSP 6 if I resize to the desired height and width it of course distorts the picture by either flattening or stretching. If I maintain aspect ratio, the result is various sized height Pictures, which I do not want.
The famous photographer Cartier Bresson once said "if it's a bad picture - youre not close enough", so the cropping will not (I hope) be detrimental. So what I am looking for is a predetermined size cropping frame, to hover over an image and always have the perfect size with no black borders on TV either top or bottom. Can I do that in PSP? If not - HOW?
I told you it was complicated!!!!

[LeviFiction]

Do you have PSP 6 or PSPX6 (16)

When using the crop tool you should be able to define a specific width and height on the tool options palette. And then you can save it as a preset for easy selection at any time.

From there you just need to resize the image to the preferred width, then grab the crop tool, set the preset, and position it and crop.

[Kathy_9]

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