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January 5, 2024
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Is there a way to make an image conform to a frame?

  • January 5, 2024
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Hi All,

 

I am printing many images every day and they are all size specific. In the past I would place my image and snap it to four guides I had set previously. However, I decided to upgrade to Photoshop cc to try the frames tool to save some time.

 

My problem is that whenever I place my image into the frame, it maintains the aspect ratio of the image and will not fill out the frame corner to corner, so some of the image is obscurednehind the frame. The frame is acting like a mat, when I really need the image to fill the frame from corner to corner, as it is much faster than placing each image individually and snapping it to preset guides.

 

Is there a way to make this work? I got this idea initially from Canva, which has a tool that is drag and drop and fills outa frame nicely, only I dislike Canva and have years of experience working within Photoshop. 

 

Any help[ is much appreciated. 

 

Thanks,

 

George

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Bojan Živković11378569
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 6, 2024

A possible way to do this is to follow these steps:

Assign a pixel replacement variable to a layer that has the pixels you want to use as a frame.

  • Go to Image > Variables > Pixel Replacement > Method Conform.
  • Use the manual method to load or place an image on that layer.

 

Creating data-driven graphics in Photoshop (adobe.com)

jane-e
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 6, 2024

@George34545035l11g 

 

Is your intention to distort the image or to maintain the aspect ratio?

 

Jane

Participant
January 6, 2024

@jane-e 

 

My intention is to have the image fill out the frame edge to edge, even if that means distorting the image to do so. 

 

Thanks,

 

George

jane-e
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 6, 2024

When you use Edit > Free Transform (Ctrl+T), the default is to keep proportional when scaling. In between the Width and Height controls is a Link icon. When it's down, the W and H controls work together. Tap it once to disable it and you can distort your image.

 

Jane