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Go7hic13
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July 19, 2012
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How do I resize an image without stretching it?

  • July 19, 2012
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I have an image of approx. 1000x1000px...  I need to make the image 500x200.  Everytime I try to resize the image it comes out looking "stretched".  Is there any way of resizing or shrinking the image in photoshop without distorting the image?

Thanks!

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    JJMack
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    July 20, 2012

    Going from a 1:1 square aspect ratio to a 5:2 aspect ratio is quite a change in aspect ratio with out distortion at all you would need to crop off 60% the image or add canvas.  If you look at it this way you get a better understanding

    Downsize the image from 1000x1000px to 500x500px and there will be no distortion now cut that image into two peices one 500x200 pixels leave 500x300 its a 40% 60% split

    The other way is Downsize the image from 1000x1000px to 200x200px  there will be no distortion now add canvas to make the image 500x200pxb you will have what you want no distortion your whole image with a 300x200 side border

    JJMack
    Noel Carboni
    Legend
    July 19, 2012

    To add to the very consise and correct advice given by station_two above, there are some very tricky ways to stretch some parts and not others.  Look into Content-Aware Scaling...

    http://help.adobe.com/en_US/photoshop/cs/using/WS6F81C45F-2AC0-4685-8FFD-DBA374BF21CD.html

    -Noel

    station_two
    Inspiring
    July 27, 2012

    Noel Carboni wrote:

    …the very consise and correct advice given by station_two above…

    …and to which apparently someone objected, as it has been deleted.