I AM NOT UNDERSTANDING HOW TO RESIZE A PHOTO. I have a photo I am working on right now. It is 1949x1704 and 494kb. I need this shot to fit exactly on a 4x6 print..I am uploading it for x mas cards. It must fit with out croping or I will loose important parts of the photo as it is a close up shot. I have tried resizing in photo explosion and then when I upload it says it is only good for a 3x5 print.? Even after I picked the 4x6 deminsions. I have PS 6 but am still clueless on how to use it. I am going to get training soon. I tried to resize in PS but am confused by all the options. It wants many spcifices I am unsure of. I dont have a clue what the dpi or other things should be as I am new to this. Can someone give me exact answers to the questions PS asks? Is there a way to resize with out loosing quality or a part of the shot. Please reply asap...I need to place this order. Bella THANK YOU!
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Resizing Please HELP!
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Chris R-UK
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If you have given the correct dimensions for your image, it cannot be made to fit a 4x6 print exactly because the ratio of the sides is wrong.
If you fit the short side to be exactly 4in, the long side will be only 4.575in, so you will have a border of about 0.7in on either side.
If you fit the long side at exactly 6in, the short side will be 5.25in and you will have to crop off 1.25in to make it fit on the paper.
Which do you want to do?
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Paul Greenleaf
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stretch it a bit. ;-)
here is the photo. I can afford to crop the photo a bit. But there is no way to shrink the photo to a smaller size? So everyone must crop these 4x6 photos?
John Figueras
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Chis is quite right--the ratio of width-to-height of your picture makes it impossible to resize to 4x6 without cropping. Furthermore, the placement of the subjects within the picture makes it impossible to crop to the required dimensions. Ordinarily one would resize so that one dimension matched the the required size and then crop the remaining dimension to its required size; the remaining dimension after selection of the first would have to be sufficiently large after resizing to permit cropping. In your case, the subjects are so close to picture boundaries that there is not enough leeway to permit such cropping. Sorry about that. I loaded your picture into Photoshop and was unable to find any cropping combination that would yield a 4x6 image without intruding on the the subject. I think the best you could hope for is to resize to the smaller height dimension and use wider left and right borders on your card.
here is the photo. I can
afford to crop the photo a bit. But there is no way to shrink the
photo to a smaller size? So everyone must crop these 4x6 photos?
John
hey babybella mh wrote:
As pretty much everybody is saying the height-to-width ratio deal is somewhat peculiar in it's own right. Just for testing I downloaded your picture and headed for the canned 4x6 setting in my software and true enough it did some selective cropping. I must say, the cropping it did would in my opinion still be quite passable on a greeting card in my humble opinion. But it's your picture and you know what all you need.
While I'm not a photoshop guru myself I pulled the image into HP Photo Director (HP 7550 Printer) and it gives you specific photo size options from there so you find out real quick what it will and won't properly fit on from a photo size perspective. Obviously that particular software came with my printer.
On the flip side, there is a product that Jasc makes called AfterShot, and also of course Adobe Photoshop Elements 2. I mention these programs cause they are moreso geared to the digital photography enthusiast and eliminate alot of the speculation and trial and error you appear to be going through.
Sure.... whatever these programs can do PS6 can do better.... it's just a matter of finding out how that "better" is best achieved.
Good Fortunes...
As pretty much everybody is saying the height-to-width ratio deal is somewhat peculiar in it's own right. Just for testing I downloaded your picture and headed for the canned 4x6 setting in my software and true enough it did some selective cropping. I must say, the cropping it did would in my opinion still be quite passable on a greeting card in my humble opinion. But it's your picture and you know what all you need.
While I'm not a photoshop guru myself I pulled the image into HP Photo Director (HP 7550 Printer) and it gives you specific photo size options from there so you find out real quick what it will and won't properly fit on from a photo size perspective. Obviously that particular software came with my printer.
On the flip side, there is a product that Jasc makes called AfterShot, and also of course Adobe Photoshop Elements 2. I mention these programs cause they are moreso geared to the digital photography enthusiast and eliminate alot of the speculation and trial and error you appear to be going through.
Sure.... whatever these programs can do PS6 can do better.... it's just a matter of finding out how that "better" is best achieved.
Good Fortunes...
here is the photo. I can
afford to crop the photo a bit. But there is no way to shrink the
photo to a smaller size? So everyone must crop these 4x6 photos?
Kris Kadela
Veteran Member
Bob the Printer88467
Veteran Member
I would crop it to a 4x6 and have it so the top of the crop came just above the head of the boy on the right. You would lose some of the 'legs' but the important part (the faces) would still be ok. In fact, I think that the cropping would serve to focus even more on the faces!
Sorry, but that picture has some weird proportions and that's the only way I can see to do it!
Sincerely, Bob the Printer
Sorry, but that picture has some weird proportions and that's the only way I can see to do it!
Sincerely, Bob the Printer
Tricia
Veteran Member
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Harvey
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Babybella,
Here's something along the line of what Bob suggests by cropping to a 4 x 6:
or, if you don't want to fake it, you could do something like this on a 4 x 6 image with borders on the sides to capture the whole pic
Good luck...Harvey
Here's something along the line of what Bob suggests by cropping to a 4 x 6:
or, if you don't want to fake it, you could do something like this on a 4 x 6 image with borders on the sides to capture the whole pic
Good luck...Harvey
Here is what I finally did. I am waiting to hear back from the customer for the OK to print. I had to find the orginal an old cd I burned for backup (this was an old order and she orderd that shot in a 8x10.. that is why it was croped that way.)I re croped and then fliped it to make for a more balanced card..I hope??? The faking was a good idea. How did you do that and in what program....it allowed you to create outside the boundries of the photo? How? It fooled me and I took the shot! I had to look for a min to relize what you had done. Thanks SO much everyone. I must say I hate 4x6 sizing. That is the only one I really ever have a problem with. 5x7 and 8x10 and up are usually not much of a croping problem. Thanks againg Bella
Here's something along the line of what Bob suggests by cropping to
a 4 x 6:
or, if you don't want to fake it, you could do something like this
on a 4 x 6 image with borders on the sides to capture the whole pic
Good luck...Harvey
Kris Kadela
Veteran Member
I used Paint Shop Pro 7 but almost any editor would do here (as long as it has a clone brush). Simply added margins (expanded the canvas) and pasted in sections of the image. Your idea works well too. I would worry about flipping faces but in this case it works since the subjects don't have a ny birthmarks or such. Good job.Here is what I finally did. I am waiting to hear back from the
customer for the OK to print. I had to find the orginal an old cd I
burned for backup (this was an old order and she orderd that shot
in a 8x10.. that is why it was croped that way.)I re croped and
then fliped it to make for a more balanced card..I hope??? The
faking was a good idea. How did you do that and in what
program....it allowed you to create outside the boundries of the
photo? How? It fooled me and I took the shot! I had to look for a
min to relize what you had done. Thanks SO much everyone. I must
say I hate 4x6 sizing. That is the only one I really ever have a
problem with. 5x7 and 8x10 and up are usually not much of a croping
problem. Thanks againg Bella
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