Render photo to canvas size for printing

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July 23, 2021
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I am designing a full page AD for a magazine with the given dimensions: 7.5" x 9.8". I set my canvas size to that and imported my photo. My photo is horizontal and they are wanting the photo turned vertical to appear in the magazine. I rotated my image but how would I get it to fit to the dimensions. Do i just scale it and drage the corners to the boundaries? Or, is there any way to do it?

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D Fosse

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At a standard magazine print resolution of 300 ppi, those dimensions translate to an image size of 2250 x 2940 pixels.

So first make sure your original has enough pixels. If it does, you can just scale down to the correct print size. If it doesn't, you need to go back and recreate the original. Never scale up unless it's an emergency! The quality will suffer considerably by scaling up.

If the aspect ratio doesn't fit you may have to crop off a portion along one side, or you can attempt to add it.

J E L

Community Expert

@alcord_24 Just to add a note, don't forget to add a bleed area if this is a full page ad and your photo is meant to bleed. @D Fosse is right that you don't want to scale up. What is the aspect ratio of your original image compared to the ad size? In changing H to V something has to give or you will need to rebuild areas if possible. Let us know how it goes!