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reducing a photo keeping the view

  • 03-05-2018 03:15PM
    #1
    by8auj6csd3ioq
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    How can you reduce a photo to 8x6 and yet keep the original view. it is a castle and i do not want to crop off the top. if the height is 8 the width is 5.3 not 6. How to make it exact 8x6 without stretching. Photoshop 14


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  • #2
    DaireQuinlan
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    Eliezer Scrawny Flea wrote: »
    How can you reduce a photo to 8x6 and yet keep the original view. it is a castle and i do not want to crop off the top. if the height is 8 the width is 5.3 not 6. How to make it exact 8x6 without stretching. Photoshop 14

    You either crop the bottom|top|both, resize in one dimension, or have 0.7 inches (or cm or whatever) empty border along the side(s).


  • #3
    Kenny Logins
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    Crop the bottom.


  • #4
    DaireQuinlan
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    Kenny Logins wrote: »
    Crop the bottom.

    ^^ Actually this perfectly answers the original question with the stated constraints :-D


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    by8auj6csd3ioq
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    ok thanks didn't know you could crop in one dimension


  • #6
    by8auj6csd3ioq
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    I did not make myself clear. i want to keep all the photo but have it all shrunk to fit into 8x6 and not be stretched

    https://photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/crop-photoshop

    this leaves me with two white stripes at side


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  • #7
    DaireQuinlan
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    Eliezer Scrawny Flea wrote: »
    I did not make myself clear. i want to keep all the photo but have it all shrunk to fit into 8x6 and not be stretched

    https://photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/crop-photoshop

    this leaves me with two white stripes at side

    ok, as above, if you don't want to crop you either have to stretch it in one dimension, or have two white stripes. There's literally no other way something that's 8x5.3 will fit into an 8x6 rectangle.

    If you think about a more extreme example for a moment, you have a square picture, and you want an 8x6 print, but you don't want to crop, distort, or leave white stripes. How is that going to work :confused:


  • #8
    Kenny Logins
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    Eliezer Scrawny Flea wrote: »
    I did not make myself clear. i want to keep all the photo but have it all shrunk to fit into 8x6 and not be stretched

    https://photoshopcafe.com/tutorials/crop-photoshop

    this leaves me with two white stripes at side

    Well back to Daire then :D - Crop one side, the other, or both? Enter 8 inches and 6 inches in the setting for the crop tool, and draw/move the crop wherever you decide.

    07a6c0K.png

    To avoid cropping you'd have to be clever with cloning or "content aware fill" on the sky or grass/foreground to bring the image up to 6 inches.


  • #9
    Bacchus
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    As Kenny says above, content fill is probably your best bet to fill the extra 0.7" without stretching the photo. Sky at top or grass at bottom should be very quick and easy to fill in with this tool.


  • #10
    Mike Litoris
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    If you don't want to crop, or crop too much, you could give it a plain border so it looks framed. Might look a bit gank with it not being symmetric though.


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