The picture I scanned off is slightly rectangular.
My problem is that the frame I want to place it in is a real rectangle and the picture does not fit correctly.
How do I make my picture more rectangle without distortion or losing any part of the picture?
Adope Photoshop 7.0
Windows XP SP2
If it will help, I can send the picture if someone tells how to do it.
I do have Photobucket.
#1
slightly rectangular.
real rectangle
Care to elaborate?
Bob
#2
Okay.
The picture I have is 5 1/2" wide and 4 1/2 high.
The frame is 6 1/2 " wide and 4 1/2 high.
The height fits, the width is too short.
If I make the whole thing bigger than the height is off.
If I change it horizontally, the picture is distorted.
Understand now?
#3
You have three hard-and-fast choices:
* Enlarge the image, then crop it to fit the frame.
* Change the size of the frame to fit the image.
* Transform (stretch) the image to fit the frame, thereby distorting it.
Which is the least objectionable?
Pick one.
#4
That is what I thought you would say. I was just hoping that there was another way. I will try to enlarge and then crop. The only other was that I was using effects from Print Shop to fill it in so that you would not notice it as much.
Thanks anyway.
#5
PrintShop won't be able to do anything that couldn't be doneprobably betterin Photoshop.
Perhaps there is a 4th choice, but it depends on the content of the image.
That is: Are there elements of the image that you could clone to fill out the extra ½ inch of width on both sides?
Go ahead and upload a decent size image to photobucket and post a link here so we can have a look at what you're working with.
#6
Okay, when I come back. I have to go out now.
I have one that was scanned at 600 and saved in Photo Shop as High quality. I will send that one.
#7
That's a 25MB file!
Just post a smaller version on a server, or on Image shack or Pixentral so we can see what we're dealing with.
#8
wrote:
Okay.
The picture I have is 5 1/2" wide and 4 1/2 high.
The frame is 6 1/2 " wide and 4 1/2 high.
The height fits, the width is too short.
If I make the whole thing bigger than the height is off.
If I change it horizontally, the picture is distorted.
Understand now?
Rosemarie,
You need to crop the image horizontally so it will be correct proportionally
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Bill
#9
"...That's a 25MB file!..."
Not when saved "in Photoshop as High Quality". High Quality is a jpg option and is undoubtedly what Rosemarie was citing. The amount of compression depends on the diversity of the image. A completely uniform (all pixels identical) 25 MB (uncompressed) file saves to 125 KB as jpg high quality. A typically diverse image would save in jpg high quality at something under 1.5 MB
#10