Aspect Ratios and Image Resizing

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I have been meaning to get my hands dirty in Photoshop/Elements for a long time now and see what I can do with some of my pictures once they have been adjusted. With this in mind I went off looking for tutorials that would help me in producing a print from my pictures that fit the standard 35mm sized frames(e.g 10x8 instead of 10x7).

I havent been able to find anything that explains how to do this.

So please I am looking for help on how to change a photo in Photoshop from Digital Size to 35mm Size without cropping immensely.

Look froward to the replies. I may not have put myself across the best here and I have performed several searches for image resizing with no joy on the topic I am after.
 
is there a crop tool in elements which allows you to create your own custom sized crops? I have photoshop so I dont know what elements allows.

you create a crop of 10" x 8" at 300dpi (or whatever you like for printing) and then when you drag this over your shot it will crop it to that size. will only take a spot off the edge but you can position it where you want for the best output.
 
Janice your a star. Will look at his tonight when I get home.

See what other people say about you isnt true!!!
 
Elements 5: go to the crop tool in full edit or quick fix
From the top tool bar click image then crop
(If you use the crop symbol from the left hand menu this is a "free hand crop tool")

This puts a pre sized crop shape over th epicture, then there is then a grey tool bar just below the top, at the top "aspect ratio" that you click on it has presets or you can actually adjust to what ever size you need pixles etc
 
Double_Agent said:
Janice your a star. Will look at his tonight when I get home.

See what other people say about you isnt true!!!
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I AM a star!! So what DO they say about me then???? :eek:
 
My way is similar to Janice's but I do it before resizing so do not want to set the resolution, just crop stuff out.

With the crop tool leave the DPI box empty and enter the ratio as dimensions in inches, so for conventional 3:2 size it would be 3 in x 2 in. Because you have not entered a DPI you have control over the crop as normal by dragging, but the aspect will be fixed.

Also if you convert the Background layer to a normal layer before doing this you can then select hide mode instead of delete for the crop. This means when you crop you do not discard the borders but simply hide them so they can be recovered later.

That is Photoshop though, not sure whether it applies to Elements.

Michael.
 
Just tried it.

A big thank you to those that posted. I can confirm I am a lot wiser on this now and prints now coming out to sizes I require.

Much appreciated. Just wait for the next dumb topic in my quest to learn Photoshop......
 
Double_Agent said:
Just tried it.

A big thank you to those that posted. I can confirm I am a lot wiser on this now and prints now coming out to sizes I require.

Much appreciated. Just wait for the next dumb topic in my quest to learn Photoshop......
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No such thing as a dumb topic on this forum.! :thumbs:
 
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