Image resizing to print enlargements

Hi

if you want to print an image with a certain proportion (width to height) onto a paper with a differing proportion you have 3 choices,

1: retain proportions of your original and accept that there will be some unprinted paper  

2: retain proportions of your original and accept that you'll have to crop to the new proportion

3: [prob. not acceptable] distort the image to the new proportion [like a 16x9 wide screen TV often does with an old 4x3 TV program, people get fattened] 

I hope this helps

if so, please "like" my reply and if you're OK now, please mark it as "correct", so that others who have similar issues can see the solution

thanks

neil barstow, colourmanagement.net :: adobe forum volunteer

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Hi

The issue is not resizing but the ratio of height and width. Your example images have a ratio of 2 short side units to 3 long side units. If the target size is the same ratio then no cropping is needed, which is why they fit into 4 x 6, but if target ratio is different then the image would need to be cropped to fit (or empty space left down the edges)

So if you take your 4 x 6 and enlarge the short edge to 5, then the long edge needs to be 7.5  (or the image cropped to fit into 5x7)

Similarly if you make the short edge 8 then the long edge needs to be 12 (or the image cropped to fit into 8x 10)

Dave