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September 2, 2014
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how to resize from 16:9 to 4:3

  • September 2, 2014
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That's just it and the only thing I want to do. I'm exporting them to a folder on my computer to use for different sites and needs them to be 4:3 for those sites. I tried in export to 1000:750, but both were resized equally. I unticked don't enlarge, but it still didn't work. Using Photoshop for this just isn't very efficient.

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VolvenomAuthor
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September 2, 2014

Thanks anyway I just realized that stretching it to 16:9 may not be a good idea after all. Both for the look and the functionality.

VolvenomAuthor
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September 2, 2014

I see where you want to go with this, and I would agree with a photo from real life, but this is just virtual. Nothing is real, so the comparison won't be there. It's also what people do, so no one will bother. To go with a screen with a resolution of 16:9 the game has to be stretched, so what looks right might actually be the 4:3 ratio.

VolvenomAuthor
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September 2, 2014

I have been doing this before. It's just digital and the usual thing for me is to change settings on the program screen to 4:3, I was just hoping I could get a better quality this way.

Rikk Flohr: Inactive
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September 2, 2014

Your choices are to:

1. Crop to the correct aspect before exporting

2. Export and live with the non-4:3 aspect

3. Use a program like PS to create white space to fill in the gaps left by not cropping it 4:3 in the first place.

4. Resize and distort in a program like PS.  Lightroom doesn't allow you to distort.

VolvenomAuthor
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September 2, 2014

ok, I just wanted it to resize in lightroom because it's more efficient. Doing it in Photoshop will have to be one by one don't it?

Rikk Flohr: Inactive
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September 2, 2014

Resizing will distort the picture - compressing it horizontally.

Rikk Flohr: Inactive
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September 2, 2014

Did you crop them to 4:3 before you exported them?

A 16:9 image will need to have 25% of its horizontal pixels cropped off before it will export at as 4:3.