Advance Scout wrote:

Advance Scout wrote:

barry fleaman wrote:

I received a Kodak 8x10 digital picture frame for Christmas. I have a variety of images I am uploading into the frame from native digitals to ones that were scanned to digital from photos. Most of the digital images were in landscape mode and presented no problems during display, however some of the ones scanned from photos are portrait and show up compressed. Is there any way I can convert these portrait images to landscape so the images are shown properly?
Thank you

barry-

If I understand you correctly- you might try this... open the pic in photoshop. Go to "canvas size" in the "image" menu. There you can adjust the canvas size without affecting the original image size. So you can take the "portrait" canvas and by increasing the width of the canvas - create a landscape canvas. If you "select all" prior to increasing the width, you will also be able to adjust the pic size (using transform and scale) to better adjust the picture size to the new canvas. You can even rotate the pic (transform and rotate) to any direction. You will have to create borders and/or crop around your pic since its size wasnt meant for landscape mode. Then save the picture as a jpeg with a NEW name, that way you still have the original in its original sizing in case you screw it up. Playing with the image in various canvas widths and image rotations should give you what you are looking for. If you get the canvas size and image scale just right you will have less compression when importing into the Kodak Picture frame. Thats one way - I'm sure there are lots of other ways.

Sorry if I misunderstood the question.

also- if the instructions to the Kodak pic frame tells you the size picture or proportions that it accepts than you can adjust your canvas size to those proportions first and then scale, crop or rotate the image accordingly.

Barry - I thought about your problem a little more and I think I know why the portraits are showing up compressed. As the saying goes- You are trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Your Kodak frame is showing pics in Landscape mode- 8"H x 10"W. Your portraits are the opposite - they are 10"H x 8"W. So your picture is 10"H trying to go into an 8"H "hole". The Kodak frame, rather than cropping it for you, shrinks the 10"H to 8" and then shrinks the width too (proportionately), essentially compressing the picture.

So my solution, unfortunately, will essentially do exactly what the Kodak frame is already doing. BUT - if you do what I suggested (create a landscape canvas), and then CROP the image to fit the landscape dimensions, then resize the image layer using transform to the canvas dimensions, I think it will work perfectly. You will lose some of the image due to cropping, but it will not be compressed.

The key here is cropping the image to the Kodak landscape specs.

barry fleaman

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