Photoshop Elements 4.0 question about image size

I am sure there is a simple answer to this basic question, but forgive me in

advance for posing this question about downloading Nikon D200 jpeg (fine)

images into Photoshop Elements 4.0, since I struggle with learning the digital

darkroom techniques. Having a 17 year old daughter on the home computer means

I have little time myself to learn any faster.

 

Here is the question:

 

When I previously owned a Canon 20 D and later, a 5D, my highest quality jpeg

images appeared in the "Quick Fix" Editor window with the exact 4" x 6"

dimension as the 4" x 6" (or 6" x 4") crop tool that I used. There was no

image loss at all if I cropped the jpeg to this size, because the cropping

frame lines perfectly fit the jpg's boundries. The 4" x 6" size is the print

size I use at my local Wolf Camera print shop.

 

However, now that I have recently traded into a Nikon D200, I notice that a 4"

x 6" crop of each "fine" quality jpg image leaves a slight amount of the

picture outside the short ends of the picture. I canot believe it is because

the 1.5x crop factor in the Nikon D200 creates an inherently different jpeg

image size, compared to my Canon. Is there a simple "fix" to some setting

within Elements 4.0 that I'm missing?

 

I have made no other changes to my Photosho Elements 4.0 settings. I just

started downloading D200 jpegs instead of Canon 5D jpegs, and now my 4" x 6"

crops leave out part of the pictures on the ends, a bit like having to trip an

8" by 12" print to fit inside an 8" by 10" frame. Any and all advice is

appreciated. Thanks.

The D200's pixel dimensions are almost exactly 2/3 (2592 X 3872), which means it would produce 4 x 6 print with no cropping. Don't crop it, but go to Image > Image size, and type in 4" for the short dimension (with or without resampling) and you'll get 6" (5.98) for the long dimension. (I don't have Elements, so don't know where the Image Size menu is exactly.) No cropping involved.

If you can afford it ,go to photoshop elements 5 , I got it for 49.99

with out the manual , and its been great since getting it: just my two and half cents!

Go to image- resize- 4 inch for the wide and leave the constrain proportion box checked. The resulting print will be 4 wide by however long the image from the sensor is.

 

Set up the guide rulers and you can see how long the resulting print will be. These can be used for croping and keeping the proportions the same.

Alan and Ronald, thanks for trying to help. I took at look at my Image Size settings in the standard editor, and they are already set to the size parameters you recommended. So I remain at a loss about what to do.