How to resize a portrait to a specific size without cropping off parts of the image.

<p>My question is how do you resize a portrait to (for example) an 8x10, without cropping parts of the persons body off? I have Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 and Canons Digital photo professional. Thanks for any help!</p>

<p>You can't. Unless you distort the image to fit.</p>

<p>Shoot it on a camera that has a 4x5 format. Most cameras these days have a 3x2 native aspect ratio so you can print 6.67x10 or 8x12 but 8x10 requires either a crop or a non-proportional resize (which is almost always a bad thing).</p>

<p>Well, you could print the image (uncropped) onto an 8x10 sheet of paper but you would have uneven<br>

borders (top/bottom vs sides). Maybe some photoshop experts could help out with this suggestion...Would changing the canvas size help? Then shrink the image to fit within the canvas?</p>

<p>Just a thought. I never understood what the canvas size is used for. At least I never needed it.</p>

 

<p>Here is a good example where Photoshop CS4 could help you (Maybe find a friend who has bought CS4 & could help you!):</p>

<p>http://www.articlesbase.com/videos/5min/40783010</p>

<p>The easiest thing to do is to shoot it so that you have some format-related wiggle room in the first place. If you don't have that luxury (you're stuck with another shot you didn't create, and there isn't room to crop), you can sometimes use the cloning tool in post to add some content in the margins (veritcally or horizontally) as needed. With care, that can salvage a formatting problem.</p>

<p>There is some flexibility in this with new technology.. CS4 can do it with Content Aware Scaling, as can a product called Liquid Resize from onOne software. Both work basically the same way..</p>

<p>You give it portions of the image to protect, and tell it how you want to resize.. it will expand scenes without distortion by filling in new data.</p>

<p>For instance, if you want a shot to be wider, it will go through and add tiny lines of duplicate pixles in vertical lines, based on the data around those areas. It won't touch areas you select as protected, to avoid distorting main parts of the image.</p>

<p>It's a pretty awesome technology, definitely something to look into for those times when you just get stuck with a shot that doesn't quite work the way you want it to.</p>

<p>However, I've never really done it with portraits, it is not likely to work quite as well there, but perhaps it can add some background in?<br>

Kyle</p>

<p>thanks for all the advice, next time I will leave a little wiggle room in a portrait, as for the cs4 I will keep it in mind for the future.</p>