Downsizing , stop stretching!

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Is there anyway to stop an image from being stretched when resizing to a desktop size?

For example my images from camera are

3905x1971

However when someone requests a shot of a picture for example 1280x1024 iit looks awful when stretched... 800x600 is fine though
 
Do a bit of resizing and cropping, your sensor may not fit to the dimensions of your moniter when resizing. So you may have to crop it a bit as you sensor may pic up wider shots than your moniter can handle. If that makes any sense...
 
Have tried to crop and resize however it pretty much crops out most of the image.. Atleast if i wanted it to stop stretching
 
Give the image a boarder so the image sits nicely in the centre.
 
Can you not just set the croping action to the size you atually want?
( pixles or inches / Cms) if this takes out some of the image you want to retain, then if IIRC I am afriad what ever you do it will still stretch the image
 
Cobra said:

( pixles or inches / Cms) if this takes out some of the image you want to retain, then if IIRC I am afriad what ever you do it will still stretch the image
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Ok i think thats how its going to be then because it just takes out too much of the image i want to retain...

Thanks for all the replies though :thumbs:
 
You can't get a round peg into a square hole. Something's gotta give.
 
Wait, what? You're resizing both dimensions - you should only resize one.
For example, if your image is 3905x1971, then resize the width to 1280, and the height will auto-size to match (if you keep the proportions, which is normally an option depending on software being used...which is?) as about 656px tall. Your problem is that you are overwriting that dimension with the size of the desktop resolution, and losing your image proportions!
Resize only one dimension :)

You will then have space at the top and bottom of the image, but thats why windows gives you a desktop colour option as well as the image, it colours the space with whatever colour the user chooses.
 
I always make my shots smaller than my desktop and centre them ;)
 
I tend to make a crop in PS by using the "Rectangular Marquee Tool", and selecting the "fixed aspect ratio".

Set the width to 1.25 and the height to 1. You can then select an area that is the correct shape for your screen. Copy the selection, go to File/New, click on OK, and paste the image onto the blank canvass. You can now go to Image/resize, which if you select a width of 1280, will automatically reduce the height to 1024 and you have your background.

That's the only way you'll get an image of the right "shape". Your problem is that 800x60 is a ratio of 1.333:1, and you need to make it 1.25:1

HTH

Steve
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I would heartily disagree with adding non proportional white/black space to an image so that it fits on a desktop - you'd have to modify the image again should you ever go widescreen :p Just make sure you resize with maintained proportions then let windows handle the blank area.
 
resize the canvas to exactly the same dimension as your desktop in PS, then make the image fit nicely then save as a jpeg. then just apply it to your bg in windows and your sroted.
 
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