Resizing an image from horizontal to vertical

[Patrick5C1C]

Can someone please help me with this issue? I have bee nscouring the internet and not finding anything that works.

If I have an image that is a horizontal rectangle, like, say, 7 x 5, and I need that image to be 5 x 7 for a poetry book cover, how the heck do get it to 5 x 7 without blowing up the image and cropping out the sides?

see attached image. 

I want this image the to show the whole tree in 5 x 7

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Basically, you have two choices for this type of image:

• Distort it, or
• Blow up and crop.

[Migintosh]

I'm not sure there are options other than this:

The first one is around 164% both X and Y, but the sides are cut off. The other is around 73% width and the same 164% height. If you like one, go with it. If something else can be done, I'm not sure what it is, but maybe someone has another idea.

[Diane Burns]

Please, don't distort the image unless it's abstract.

There's no way around having to crop part of it, unless you add color blocks to "letterbox" it.