Render photo to canvas size for printing

[alcord_24]

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?

[Mohammad.Harb]

Rescale the photo and rearrange the elements to fit the new orientation. 

There is also a content-aware scale 

you Can also post a screenshot for the vertical and the horizontal to help you in a better way.

[D Fosse]

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]

@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!

[alcord_24]

I have attached photos of what my canvas looks like when I rotate the photo and of the image size details.

[D Fosse]

Yes, I forgot the bleed, very important. Thanks Jain for reminding.

You seem to be good to go - except I don't know what the white frame is. Is that supposed to be part of the finished ad? Other than that, just scale as required and crop whatever doesn't fit in the aspect ratio. 

[alcord_24]

The white frame is the size of the page, I just screeenshot to show what it looks like after I import the photos and rotate it. I haven't adjusted the photo for the size yet, which is why I was on here wondering how I do that. 

[J E L]

@alcord_24 A few more questions to make sure I have this right. Is this for a print magazine? If so, did the publisher or ad manager give you specs for how to output and deliver your file? They may require you to submit in 300 dpi, add a bleed, and export to PDF with certain settings. Do you want to keep the image as a horizontal so that readers would have to turn the magazine on its side to view it properly at full size? If not, what you see in my screenshot is indicative of what is going to happen unless you crop out some of the people, which I assume you don't want to do.

You could try to extend some of the existing image background as @Mohammad.Harb suggested above as the blue wall panels on the top are easy enough to duplicate (I assume that is a text layer you've added so you can get at it) but I don't know how great that is going to look with this particular image. You could try a separate, non-distracting, background image or a solid color to fill the white space. You may want to move the text and signature off the image to fill things out more on the page or find some other creative ways to bring all this together for a better looking ad. Your original file dimensions (5922 x 3838 pixels) are certainly large enough for a 7.5" x 9.8" ad trim. I don't think you'll need to adjust the photo for size. If your image runs on its side full page, then yes, just scale it in. If your ad canvas is 300 dpi and your image is 72 dpi then it won't place to the same size automatically. Is any of this helpful to what you are trying to achieve?

[alcord_24]

Hi there!  The publisher did not give the specs for output other than just JPEG. It will be printed horizontal so that the magazine is turned around to be viewed. 

[J E L]

Okay, here is what I would do. Create a new document with an 1/8 inch bleed at 300 dpi (7.625 x 9.925 inches). File > Place your image on that canvas. Scale the image to fit in that space as you like. Add the text you want. Save as a JPG file and submit to the publisher.

Note: the CMYK to RGB will depend on what the publisher wants so you may need to convert your image file to CMYK or create your new document as RGB.

 If you add a .125 bleed, the measurements would be 7.625 x 9.925 inches. 

[alcord_24]

Thank you very much! I will go ahead and do that and see what happens.

[J E L]

Great, let us know if you have any more questions! Looks like a nice tribute.

[D Fosse]

The white frame is the size of the page

By @alcord_24

Something's wrong here. Those pixel dimensions are much too high for a magazine page. And where did 72 ppi come from? That can't be the correct print size.

As I said above: You need 2250 x 2940 pixels. Plus bleed. That's 7.5 x 9.8 inches at a standard magazine print resolution of 300 ppi.

Photoshop doesn't really work with sizes; it works with pixels only. The size is given by the pixels per inch number (ppi). Repeat that to yourself: pixels per inch. Those three words give the whole game away. The file has a certain number of pixels, and the ppi number determines the size.

In this case the ppi number is 300, and at the required physical print size, the pixel dimensions are given.

[J E L]

I think the pixels and resolution in @alcord_24's screenshot is their original photo size. If you add a .125 bleed, the measurements would be 7.625 x 9.925 inches. This is what that aspect ratio looks like on the full image when cropped H or V.  Inches converted to pixels at 300 resolution are below.