Thanks again, Jim, but no, it's not what I'm after. Using the CAR marquee route ensures that I only throw away the part of the image I don't want (which is fine). The selected part of the image (which is eventually cropped to the same size and proportions) retains all of the original information contained in it. Nothing is invented or more importantly (for me) thrown away. If the eventual crop has more info than necessary it may be useful in the future for producing even larger prints than those done initially. If I'm doing something with a known resolution/printed size requirement then I'll use the system you've just suggested and it works just fine. The CAR problem as I've (perhaps inadequately) described it only occurs in a free ranging situation where there's only 1 file to print, and the resolution can be set accordingly after the required image portion has been selected from the original. - thanks pp