Need Help Converting from Landscape to Portrait (Page 4): You not taken "not by me". The picture is not yours and is copyrighted by the photographer.

Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

You not taken "not by me". The picture is not yours and is copyrighted by the photographer.

Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

THAT SHOULD BE YOUE NOTED not not. Do you have permission?

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

evan_moor wrote:

Hello,

I have a photo that was not taken by me and it is in what I think to be really large format (5472 x 3648 pixels). I have never been good with sizing and ratios with photography and I have a very old copy of Photoshop 7 and would like to make it into a 5x7 portrait.

Can someone explain to me how to achieve this and keep the perspective the same?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Really? Photoshop 7? I didn't think there were any computers around that could run such an old application. Your computer must be ancient too. Sorry. I wish I could help but 7 is too far back for my brain to remember how.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

evan_moor wrote:

I am not against cropping, but after cropping how can it be stretched to look normal. Again, I do not do well with aspect ratios so I need the ABC's of how to do it.

What longshadow did for you looks like the best option to me. You can’t make the original into a 5x7, but you might be able to make it a 7x5.

Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

Set you crop to the demotions you want (17X 20 or what ever) and play with the original to see what works for you... if any.

tommystrat Loc: Bigfork, Montana

Excellent! It can be done!!

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

I probably used Photoshop 7 at some point (I started with PS 4, around 1995), but that was many years ago and I don't recall how the tools were set up.

I'm using Photoshop CS6 (i.e., PS 13) now, which has a simple, easy to use cropping tool. I clicked on it, used the pull down menu to set the aspect ratio to 5x7, clicked the rotate button to switch from landscape to portrait orientation and hit the enter key.... done!

I also boosted the image's color saturation, contrast and tweaked the "curves". It was a bit washed out... perhaps due to flare or something.

It took about 30 seconds to do the above.

Here's the result:

(Download)

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Picture Taker wrote:

You noted taken "not by me". The picture is not yours and is copyrighted by the photographer.

This is true....

I checked the EXIF and don't see a copyright owner's name.

If the original poster knows the person who took the shot, they should get written permission to use it.

If they don't know the person, I really don't know what they can do, since there is no name or contact info embedded in the photo EXIF that I can see.

Picture Taker Loc: Michigan Thumb

The copyright does not have to be on the picture. Any picture a person takes is, by US law, copyrighted. The photographers that send the to Washington have a better case but, every picture taken, with or without the copyright, sent to Washington or not is covered.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

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frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

evan_moor wrote:

Hello,

I have a photo that was not taken by me and it is in what I think to be really large format (5472 x 3648 pixels). I have never been good with sizing and ratios with photography and I have a very old copy of Photoshop 7 and would like to make it into a 5x7 portrait.

Can someone explain to me how to achieve this and keep the perspective the same?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

What you have is a landscape. To change to portrait, you will have to crop it in Photoshop, loosing a lot of the image. Crop it to 1500 x 2100 pixels (at 300 ppi). You will loose a more on the 5472 side.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

frankraney wrote:

What you have is a landscape. To change to portrait, you will have to crop it in Photoshop, loosing a lot of the image. Crop it to 1500 x 2100 pixels (at 300 ppi). You will loose a more on the 5472 side.

Unless I'm missing something, why worry about pixels and do math for cropping?
I just use the crop mask in the editor. Adjust the mask size, click enter, done.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Papa Joe wrote:

Even, about the only (practical) way you can make a 5x7 from a 'landscape' format would be to make a horizontal 5x7. To do otherwise, would mean losing material from both sides.

and the resulting image might be just great!

I took a 3:2 slide from my "probably reject" pile - cropped it as 2:3 image, and it was much better!
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-449362-1.html

Imagemine Loc: St. Louis USA

The best way is to print it to a smaller size than you won't have to worry about cropping out Information, best of luck

jamesl Loc: Pennsylvania

evan_moor wrote:

Hello,

I have a photo that was not taken by me and it is in what I think to be really large format (5472 x 3648 pixels). I have never been good with sizing and ratios with photography and I have a very old copy of Photoshop 7 and would like to make it into a 5x7 portrait.

Can someone explain to me how to achieve this and keep the perspective the same?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

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It won't make a 5x7 without cropping. Open the photo in Photoshop, get your crop tool and set it for a 5x7 aspect ratio oriented vertically. Adjust the crop by the corners until it includes the entire picture horizontally (or as much of the shot as you want to keep horizontally), then click in the middle of the picture and shift it up or down to get what you want to keep vertically and hit enter. You should be good to go then. If you find you can't fit all you want to keep vertically, you will need to drag the crop rectangle at the corners and resize as much as you need to in order to include what you want vertically, then click in the middle and shift the picture left or right to get the part you want horizontally. If you can't get all you want included with this procedure you will have to sacrifice some to get as close to ideal as you can or fit in one direction and stretch the picture and allow it to distort in order to fit.