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How do you change a picture from portrait to landscape in Photoshop CS5?
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Short answer: the Crop Tool.
Is your question more involved than this?
-Noel
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I am new to Photoshop CS5, so could you give me details on how to do that?
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Choose the Crop Tool in the tools panel. Drag a box around the parts of the image you want to keep.
-Noel
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Is this a blank Canvas? In which case Image > Image Rotation > 90° CW
If a picture, then as Noel says, use the crop tool. With the Crop tool selected there is a drop down box from which you can choose precise aspect ratios.
But... There is another, more elegant, and far more powerful way to do it. Content Aware Scale
You could just copy the BG to a new layer, and use Free Transform to squash it up into a narrower Portrait mode aspect ratio. but with CAS you can select thos parts of the image you want to remain un squashed, and save the selection. Then:
This was taken five years ago with a Canon 30D, so not that flash an image.
But a competition judge suggested it might look better as a portrait mode image, so I used the above technique to produce this:
You'll notice that the interesting rock as retained its aspect ratio.