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TimothyDolinschi
TimothyDolinschi
Inspiring
September 30, 2017
Question

I'm Having Trouble With Image Resizing/Exporting Sizes, etc.

  • September 30, 2017
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Hello,

So I'm not entirely sure if this is a bug, or if this is the way it's supposed to be, but basically whenever I export and try to resize/edit the image size (thumbnails for YouTube) I put in1280x720 (with minimum width of 640 pixels), as this is the reccomended size for YouTube thumbnails.

However, whenever I plug in the value, let's say, 1280, it forces the wanted 720 to 833 or something 😕😕 does anyone know if this is normal? I'm asking because black bars keep appearing on my thumbnails (whenever I custom make one and export it from Photoshop, same with image resizing)... But whenever I put a thumbnail YouTube gives me as options, no black bars ever appear, except they don't look very professional.

Thank you to whoever will try helping me!!

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JJMack
Community Expert
JJMackCommunity Expert
Community Expert
September 30, 2017

It sound like you doing a constrained resize and the document does not have a 16:9 aspect ratio.  When you enter 1280 Photoshop figuers out what the other side should be so the document image will not be distorted.  Check the Aspect Ration of the original size document. It mostt likely is not 16:9

Crop the document to a 16:9 aspect ratio first.  When you the enter 1780 the other side will be set to 720

JJMack
TimothyDolinschi
TimothyDolinschiAuthor
Inspiring
October 1, 2017

How do I crop the document to a 16:9 aspect ratio?

And thank you for the help thus far!!

JJMack
Community Expert
JJMackCommunity Expert
Community Expert
October 1, 2017

Set the crop tool to crop to a 16:9 aspect ratio then use it.

JJMack
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