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02/07/2004 01:17:58 AM · #1 |
| I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm trying to resize a photo to 468x60 using photoshop, but I'm having extreme difficutlies can anyone help. |
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02/07/2004 01:55:56 AM · #2 |
There are a number of ways of doing it. Starting with an image from a regular digital camera though you will lose some of the image because of the extremely long and narrow final image you are trying to create. Two of the easiest ways of cropping are...
1. Crop tool. Open your photo. Select the crop tool and type in your desired image size of 468x60. Then just drag that across your photo until you have it covering the area you want and hit enter. It will be exactly 468x60.
2. Marquee tool. Open your photo. Select the marquee tool. In the style drop down box select "Fixed Aspect Ratio" then type in your width and height. Drag Across your image. Select Crop from the image menu. Now select image size from the image menu and again type in your height and width in the image size dialog.
EDIT: You may want to make sure your rulers are set to pixels. Photoshop selects the unit of measure based on what unit your rulers are using. If you're not displaying rulers click view and rulers. The rulers will then be shown along side your image. You can right click on them and change the unit of measure to anything you want.
Message edited by author 2004-02-07 06:58:51. |
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02/07/2004 02:02:33 AM · #3 |
another way which is good if you want to play with your composition & crop is to make a new blank image of 468x60 then copy and paste your image into that.
That will enable you to move it around via the hand tool, and shrink/enlarge via the transform tool.
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02/07/2004 02:18:33 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by jonpink:
another way which is good if you want to play with your composition & crop is to make a new blank image of 468x60 then copy and paste your image into that.
That will enable you to move it around via the hand tool, and shrink/enlarge via the transform tool. |
All methods have their upsides and down. The downside to this is that whatever part of your pasted image falls off of the canvas is invisible so you don't necessarily see if there is perhaps a better crop or element just off the canvas. Also, with a very small image like we're talking about the handles can end up very far off of the work area and become difficult to access. Additionally, with the transform tool it is very easy to introduce distortions if you forget to lock the aspect ratio as you play with the resizing. |
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02/07/2004 03:58:26 AM · #5 |
these suggested methods have been about cropping. Assuming the drsdnblues wants to keep most of the image, he should resize to the long dimension first using Image->Resize and typing in 468 for the width. Keep the aspect ratio locked (the default) and you'll shrink the whole image down. After that, as TechnoShroom suggests, you likely have to crop it to get the other dimension at 60 pixels. Is this image being used for a web page header graphic or something similar?
Dave
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02/07/2004 04:09:10 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by TechnoShroom:
You may want to make sure your rulers are set to pixels. Photoshop selects the unit of measure based on what unit your rulers are using. If you're not displaying rulers click view and rulers. The rulers will then be shown along side your image. You can right click on them and change the unit of measure to anything you want. |
You can also type in the unit to use, e.g., "468 px". This is useful if you don't want to change your ruler settings. |
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02/07/2004 04:26:41 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by dsa157:
... Assuming the drsdnblues wants to keep most of the image, he should resize to the long dimension first using Image->Resize and typing in 468 for the width.... |
This isn't really necessary because if you use the crop tool and start your selection outside the canvas and end outside the canvas on the far side the selection is automatically locked to the edges of the image and at the proper height so you need only to move the selection up or down to get the crop you want with the maximum of image width showing. |
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02/07/2004 05:02:08 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by TechnoShroom:
Originally posted by dsa157:
... Assuming the drsdnblues wants to keep most of the image, he should resize to the long dimension first using Image->Resize and typing in 468 for the width.... |
This isn't really necessary because if you use the crop tool and start your selection outside the canvas and end outside the canvas on the far side the selection is automatically locked to the edges of the image and at the proper height so you need only to move the selection up or down to get the crop you want with the maximum of image width showing. |
At least some versions of Photoshop allow you to drag the crop marquee outside the image area, which will increase the canvas size (add pixels in the background color) to the area outside the original. If you are careful, the crop marquee will "snap to" the border without going over.
The easy way to do this in one operation is to use the Crop tool and select "Fixed Size" from the tool Options, and enter all three dimensions: width, height, and resolution. Your image will be resized/resampled at the same time. |
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02/07/2004 06:14:46 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
The easy way to do this in one operation is to use the Crop tool and select "Fixed Size" from the tool Options, and enter all three dimensions: width, height, and resolution. Your image will be resized/resampled at the same time. |
Just tried that and it was quite easy. Thanks for the tip.
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02/07/2004 10:39:33 AM · #10 |
Thanks for all your help. All these tips would of made things allot easier. I ended didn't finish my project till after 4am last night.
What I ended up doing, I went to save image for web, went to sizing. turned off the constrain feature. Made a 2560x1920 image into a 468x60. looked funky(as it did most of the night) painted over it, then basically cute my images resized them whith the marquee tool and added the text. It finally worked. Take a look and tell me what you all think.Banner link |
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