Resizing the shortest side of the image

Hi!

I hope the suggestions already posted have been helpful. I just thought I would give you my resizing workflow as another option. It has served me well in many years of creating large oversized graphics.

1. First, you need to know what resolution the agency is requiring. I am guessing that it would be 300 ppi (pixels per inch) --that seems to be the standard that eveyone wants these days.

2. If your images are not at 300 ppi, then use Image Size and uncheck the "Resample" box. This will link the width and height and resolution and any changes you make will reapportion the pixels you already have in your document. Select the Resolution field and type in 300. This will show you exactly how large your document is at 300 ppi.

3. Next, re-check the Resample box, because now we are going to add pixels. From the Drop Down menu next to Width, change the option to Percent, and then change the value in the Width field to 150. Change the Resample drop down menu to "Bicubic Sharper (Reduction)". (I know what it says, but it works!) And then click ok. This will increase your image by 50% larger than the original. 

4. Follow these steps until your image is as large or slightly larger than what you need. You can apply a sharpening filter to sharpen the image when you are done enlarging it, or even gradually between each enlarging process.

5. Once you have enlarged your image, and it might be slightly larger than the 60 inches, use the Image Size dialog, make sure Resample is checked, and change the short edge to 60 inches to get your exact size. 

Doing the enlarging process this way has served me wonderfully over the years. If you have any questions, just let me know, and I will be happy to help.

Michelle

I would recommend that you resize with the resampling option inactive so that the file size/pixel size does not change, you will then know what the effective print resolution or PPI value is. For a print that is 60" on the shortest side, I doubt that you will need 300ppi and I'm guessing that this will be printed on an inkjet and viewed and more than arms distance. This is why it is important to know what the effective PPI value is, before you resample/interpolate new pixels.

other way, you can go to your photograph file opened in photoshop, then go to image> image size

change the hight (shortest side) to be 60 inch (choose the unit) and make sure that the width and hight are linked to keep the same ratio.

then save your file.

there is many ways to do this:

Open a new doc with the requied size, choose the res to be the same as your photograph.

go to file>place embeded 

choose your phograph and from right corner scale the image as you like.

then save the file as psd.

then export the image with the best format you need.

also you can faltten layers for 1 single file, save as JPG.