SqBear Loc: Kansas, (South Central)

I think I may be asking the wrong question....?
I want to reduce the overall size of a photo so I can crop to a specific size. I have taken a photo of my granddaughter and her truck. Apparently I was too close to her and I am not able to crop the shot to 8x10. It will not fit within the crop lines without cutting off some of the truck.
I do not want this, I want the entire truck and some background. How do I shrink the photo so I can crop to the specific size.
I've searched YouTube and cannot find this topic. I can find many other methods but wind up with the same results . . cutting off part of the truck.
Thanks and I know someone out there has the answer for us!

8x10 crop cuts off some of the truck?

geclevel Loc: Springville, Utah

I use lightroom and when I export I can set the size of the photo. For example, I export to an 8X10 and when I order and 8x10 I dont have to crop it is already the perfect size. Im sure CS6 has a feature like this.

geclevel Loc: Springville, Utah

Try this video.
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/understanding-adobe-photoshop-cs6/changing-image-size/

SqBear Loc: Kansas, (South Central)

geclevel, I did see this clip. But, it did not work as I was trying to describe.
I was able to reduce the size, but the reduction took the entire photo down and everything remained relevant to the overall photo.
When I tried to crop, I still cut off part of the truck.
Thanks for the quick reply though.

geclevel Loc: Springville, Utah

Can you email me the original? I think I can do it in lightroom. You want the exact photo you posted in an 8x10 without the need to crop when you upload to a photo printing lab? Is that correct?

I will PM you my email address.

dooragdragon Loc: Alma , Arkansas

try anyone of the free resizer programs online to reduce or enlarge photos.

SqBear Loc: Kansas, (South Central)

dooragdragon, I use and am familiar with Infraview. Love the program but wanted more so went with CS6. Took a class at out local Community College, very, very, very basic teaching/learning. Switched now to using YouTube and tutorials, getting along fair to reasonable with this help and of course help from within here too!!
Thanks again!
Photo was emailed to you.
DaveP

SqBear Loc: Kansas, (South Central)

Sorry door... did not email it to you, another that asked for it....
Been a long day today!!
Its the humiditidity here!!! LOl
DaveP

DigitalDon Loc: Calgary, Alberta

Best results would be to "stretch" the pic down from the truck. In this case you would have more grass but then none of the truck is lost. You do need CS5 for that.

dooragdragon Loc: Alma , Arkansas

not a prob there, its been humid here in arkansas too heat index of 105 whewwwwwwwwww.

BHC Loc: Strawberry Valley, JF, USA

Quick job on posted photo; 500 X 400 pixels.

dooragdragon Loc: Alma , Arkansas

This is slightly off the present topic but here is a prime example of when it's ok to edit another's photo.
The poster has had issuse's redoing a photo ,notice 1 thing and that is no changes were made other then to resize the photo for them other wise it remains the same .
Said poster did not specifically ask anyone to do so but was asking advice on how to and not having any luck doing so and someone resized it for them.
Sorry not trying to hijack this thread, but fits in with a topic presently under discussion and was a perfect example to use.

lighthouse Loc: No Fixed Abode

OK, I am going to have a go at explaining some things.

I am sorry if this is too simplistic but I detect some basic misunderstandings. I do not mean to be condescending at all.

I don't really understand why there is a problem so I am going to address what appear to be misunderstandings by the OP.

You are not too close to her. That is irrelevant.

You do not have to reduce the size at all to print as an 8x10" pic.
As a matter of fact you specifically do not want to do this.

You want to keep it full size so that you have as much detail and info as possible in the pic.

What you do want to do though is crop to shape.

Crop the image to a 4:5 ratio or 5:4 ratio and it will print at 8X10" right to the edge of the paper.

Alternatively you might like to crop to A4 shape to print out on your home printer.

You can crop in these dimensions to any size that you like.
You can use these dimensions in portrait or landscape format.


When the image is printed - the printer will be able to size the cropped image to print right to the edge of the 8x10" paper even if the image hasn't been resized at all.

You can print an 8x10" image on A4 paper at 8x10" size.

Note - Cropping and resizing are not the same.
Cropping is cutting parts off the image but keeping all remaining pixels.
Resizing is reducing the amount of pixels in the image but not cutting anything off.

nikonshooter Loc: Spartanburg, South Carolina

I first cropped an 8x10 and (to keep from losing any of your image) had to stretch the crop outside the image. The bottom of the image was the easiest to fill - I then made a selection of the blank area and used "content aware fill" to add grass. EDIT-FILL-(select content aware fill)-ENTER

Always leave room for post - don't shoot tight.

Looks like one proud cowgirl:)

8x10

SqBear Loc: Kansas, (South Central)

dd, Thanks for your response and information!
As always, good advise to follow in here from lots of people in the know!