Adobe Photoshop Tips
Resizing a Picture in Photoshop
Question:
As I scan my slides into Photoshop, I am running into a basic
problem with correctly sizing the image. I am trying to end up
with a 1024x768 image size to fill up the entire monitor, but when
I shrink my images to a width of 1024, the correct proportion returns
the height of about 680 to 700. If I don't constrain the proportions
and manually type in 768, my images look distorted.
Is there a quick and easy way within Photoshop to capture a 1024x768 or 800x600
image without distorting the image?
Answer:
1) Use
the top menu option, Image, then Image
Size. Tick Constrain Proportions.
Set the height of your image to 768. According you what you've
said about your image, this will result in a width of greather
than 1024 pixels (but not much wider than that). You can now
decide where to crop your picture for a perfect fit.
2) Use
the top menu option, Image, then Canvas
Size. Set
the width to 1024. Use the "Anchor" to
determine where to shave pixels off your image to make it exactly 1024
wide. Leaving the white square in the middle will shave equal
amounts from each side. Moving it to either side will clip all
pixels from the center-facing side only. Click OK. You will get
a message that "The new canvas size is smaller than the
current canvas size; some clipping will occur." Click PROCEED. Now you've
got a perfect 1024x768 image with no distortion.
A little picture trimming is usually required to get perfect
dimensions, unless you have digital camera that provides a
perfect size image for down-scaling to start with.
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