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Anonymous
February 2, 2017
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Changing Image Orientation & Pixel Size

  • February 2, 2017
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Using Photoshop Elements 13. I am trying to format pictures for my company's new website, and have two major hiccups that I cannot figure out!

1) I need to change some pictures from portrait to landscape without rotating the view. In a sense I need to pull the sides out and crop the top down.

2) I want to resize all of the pictures to an exact pixel size without stretching out the image. I see in Photoshop you can do this with the content aware scale, but I'm not seeing that in Elements.

I thought these were going to be such simple tasks, but I have been googling and youtube'ing for days, PLEASE HELP!!!

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krasher200
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February 11, 2017

Please forgive my ignorance of all things graphical.  I have a picture that I want to size bigger into specific pixel dimensions. The drop downs don't have pixel dimensions I see.  pixels/inch is there.  How do I do the calculations to find the proper amount of pixels? Actually, what is the easiest way to do this?

MichelBParis
MichelBParis
Legend
February 11, 2017

Please forgive my ignorance of all things graphical.  I have a picture that I want to size bigger into specific pixel dimensions. The drop downs don't have pixel dimensions I see.  pixels/inch is there.  How do I do the calculations to find the proper amount of pixels? Actually, what is the easiest way to do this?

Changing the number of pixels is called 'resampling'.

In the dialog of the option Image >> Resize >> Image Size, you have to check the box 'Resample'.

Then you can change the resolution or the size in inches/mm and the other factor is adjusted correspondingly.

Click on the 'Help' button of that dialog to get the help file online.

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krasher200
Participant
February 11, 2017

You are a Godsend. That is such a simple thing. Now I'm in business for

much of the stuff that has been bothering me. I tried it and it did

exactly as you say and also what I wanted.

Thank you.

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 12:06 AM, MichelBParis <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

hatstead
hatstead
Inspiring
February 2, 2017

1) I need to change some pictures from portrait to landscape without rotating the view. In a sense I need to pull the sides out and crop the top down.

The maneuver which you envision will surely distort the picture. Try this:

  1. Open the picture file and crop the picture to your specification. Save this file.
  2. Go to File>new>blank file. Enter the dimensions, background content, resolution. This will be your canvas
  3. Copy/paste the cropped  picture from step #1 to the blank file
  4. Activate the move tool and position the picture. You can tweak the size with the corner handle of the bounding box, if necessary.

2) I want to resize all of the pictures to an exact pixel size without stretching out the image. I see in Photoshop you can do this with the content aware scale, but I'm not seeing that in Elements.

You can batch process via File>Process multiple files. If you go this route, suggest that you place files in portrait and landscape orientation in separate source folders. Also, open a new,  blank folder for the destination, so as not to overwrite the originals.

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Anonymous
February 2, 2017

Thank you so much for these tips!! You're a lifesaver

hatstead
hatstead
Inspiring
February 2, 2017

You're very welcome.

I forgot one step. Ideally we want the resolution of the picture file and the resolution of the blank file (step#2) to have the same value.

Open the picture file and go to Image>resize>image size. You can read the resolution in px/in

For the blank file, enter the same value.

For the new website 72 px/in should be ok.

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