Image Size

[trisha_hebert]

<p>I am trying to order a 5x7 and wallets of this picture I took of my son. When I try to crop the image to a specific size (5x7 or 2x3 for wallets) It cuts out half of the picture. In Photoshop (CS2) when I go to image size and resize the picture that way it distorts the picture.<br>

How can I do this, If it's even possible?<br>

This is an 8x10 crop:<br>

<img src="http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g72/Trisha1503/Caden4mthscopy.jpg" alt="" width="624" height="579" /></p>

 

[phule]

<p>If you want to see the photo in a different aspect ratio, you don't use the resize tool, you use the crop tool. It's in the left-side toolbar and you specify the size in the top-most toolbar. Use the arrow keys to flip between vertical and horizontal orientation (5x7 vs 7x5 for example)</p>

[Matt Laur]

<p>As you're discovering, size and <em>aspect ratio</em> are two different things.<br /><br />You're in luck on this one, though. Since you're on a simple dark background, you can actually increase the size of the image, and fill the margins with stitched-on filled panels of the same dark content that's already surrounding your subject. That will allow you to have more liberty to crop to both the longer and the boxier aspect ratios.<br /><br />This is a great example of how it pays to leave yourself some maneuvering room when you're first composing the shot. For most print sizes (like those you're mentioning), you're just fine cropping quite a bit of the original image away - there won't be any meaningful loss of print quality. So, err on the side of a slightly looser framing of the subject as you shoot, and you'll have no trouble adapting the image to each aspect ratio you might want to print to, later.</p>

[jarle_aasland]

<p>Photoshop: Just select the crop tool and enter 7 as width and 5 as height (in the options toolbar) - make sure that resolution is left empty. This will allow you to crop the photo with a 7x5 aspect ration, without changing its size (that's a different operation). Hope this helps.<br /> Jarle</p>