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Ondra6776
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December 28, 2016
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scanned pictures of fossils - in the right scale

  • December 28, 2016
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Hi,

I would like to kindly ask you for a solution to my problem.

I have about 8 scanned photos of fossils (ammonites) and I need to put them on one table 175 x 210 mm (e.g. enclosure).

I know the exact size of the samples (in millimetres) in the photo and I need to save the photo in right scale (e.g. 2x, 3x magnification).

Let’s say that 4 of the samples have to be resized 2x, and 4 of the samples 3x.

Is there any tool or process how to do it effectively? I mean to have a photo resized it exactly in the scale and the resized it in needed scale like 2x, 3x. But all photos must be towards each other in the right scale.

I will be really grateful for your advice.

Best regards

Ondra Malek

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    Correct answer davescm

    Put each image on a separate layer

    Select the layer by clicking on it in the layers panel

    Use Ctrl +A to Select all of the image on that layer (Cmd+ A on the Mac)

    Edit -Transform-Scale

    Then in the options bar type in the % increase you need for each image (1.5x shown below)

    Click on the tick to accept the transformation

    Move on to next image/layer

    Hope that helps

    Dave

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    davescm
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    davescmCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    December 28, 2016

    Put each image on a separate layer

    Select the layer by clicking on it in the layers panel

    Use Ctrl +A to Select all of the image on that layer (Cmd+ A on the Mac)

    Edit -Transform-Scale

    Then in the options bar type in the % increase you need for each image (1.5x shown below)

    Click on the tick to accept the transformation

    Move on to next image/layer

    Hope that helps

    Dave

    Trevor.Dennis
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    Trevor.DennisCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 28, 2016

    davescm wrote:

    Click on the tick to accept the transformation

    Dave

    This forum will be the death of me.   I am forever testing things for answers in the forum, and forgetting to set them back.  The latest was suddenly noticing that an object I had copied and transformed several times was looking very jagged, because I had the FT interpolation set to Nearest Neighbour.  Of course I did not see this until zooming way in _much_ later, when it was far too late to undo.

    davescm
    Community Expert
    davescmCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    December 28, 2016

    . Of course I did not see this until zooming way in _much_ later, when it was far too late to undo.

    Arghhhhh!. We've all done it

    Dave

    Mylenium
    Mylenium
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    December 28, 2016

    If you know the sizes, then simply draw yourself some lines or boxes with the right lengths and scale your artwork to fit those dimensions using free transform. Of course the usual limitations apply like quantization artifacts and the precision being dependent on the DPI.

    Mylenium

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    Ondra6776Author
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    December 28, 2016

    Thank you very much!

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