Resizing Photo: I need help. Photo below brought to me by women whose friend who just lost this horse after 14 years. She wants to get photo of head printed 1 and 1/4 inch high by 1...

sbesaw Loc: Boston

I need help. Photo below brought to me by women whose friend who just lost this horse after 14 years. She wants to get photo of head printed 1 and 1/4 inch high by 1 inch wide to fit into small keychain frame. I have PSE 11, PS CE5 and a Canon Pro9500 so all the equipment to get this done and print 1 1/4" X 1" photo on 4 x 6 paper. I just don't know how to resize photo, any ideas or explicit directions

Brendan Loc: Cornwall

your printer software should doe this. go to preferences and dissect 6x4 into 24 pics. only thing it would have to be a really good top printer to get a good detailed photo that small.

sbesaw Loc: Boston

Brendan wrote:

your printer software should doe this. go to preferences and dissect 6x4 into 24 pics. only thing it would have to be a really good top printer to get a good detailed photo that small.

Have Canon Pro 9500, pretty good printer.Need a little more detail. If I have Picture up in PS what preferences do I go to, System, Printer, PS????

sbesaw Loc: Boston

Thanks for help. Got it done.

Gill747

thought I would give it a try

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

sbesaw wrote:

I need help. Photo below brought to me by women whose friend who just lost this horse after 14 years. She wants to get photo of head printed 1 and 1/4 inch high by 1 inch wide to fit into small keychain frame. I have PSE 11, PS CE5 and a Canon Pro9500 so all the equipment to get this done and print 1 1/4" X 1" photo on 4 x 6 paper. I just don't know how to resize photo, any ideas or explicit directions

So it will be a small photo on 4X6 paper with lots of border?

sbesaw Loc: Boston

jerryc41 wrote:

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I cheated it by using original photo then specifying 9prints to a page on 5x7 paper then trimming it a little. It only printed one to a page but was very close to size i needed. Used PS print menu. Still have no idea How to size to print at 1 1/4" x 1".

Gill747

if you right click the photo you can download it. it's size is 1.25x1 @ 300 dpi

sbesaw Loc: Boston

Gill747 wrote:

if you right click the photo you can download it. it's size is 1.25x1 @ 300 dpi

Really appreciate that but would appreciate even more learning how to do it. Can you point me to a tutorial?

sbesaw Loc: Boston

Gill747 wrote:

if you right click the photo you can download it. it's size is 1.25x1 @ 300 dpi

I printed it to 4x6 paper, expecting as Jerry indicated a 1 1/4 x 1" picture in the middle of a 4x6 page. I got a 4x6 picture. There must be printer commands to restrict to a 1 1/4 x 1" pic

Tea8 Loc: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.

In Elements you can go to up to the top and go to Image. When the menu drops down go to Resize. There will be another menu pop up with Canvas Size and Image Size. Click Image size and this will bring up a box. You will have a pop up that gives you pixel dimensions and document size. You can edit either one. In your case you should do the document size part and let it resize the pixel part when you do. Most likely you will want to uncheck the constrain proportions to get in the size you want. Then once you have everything entered just hit ok and it will resize it for you and will be in the size you need. I hope this helps, I have PSE 8 so I don't know if any of the menus or anything are different in PSE 11.

sbesaw Loc: Boston

Tea8 wrote:

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Tea8, Thanks, this is great and I will try it out tonight. I am relatively sure 11 will perform as 8 in this exercise. Even though I solved this for my immediate need with a trial and error work around I want to learn how to do it correctly.

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Tea8 Loc: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.

sbesaw wrote:

Tea8, Thanks, this is great and I will try it out tonight. I am relatively sure 11 will perform as 8 in this exercise. Even though I solved this for my immediate need with a trial and error work around I want to learn how to do it correctly.

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No problem. I probably wouldn't know how to do it myself if I hadn't had things cropped out in the past when I went to print. So now I resize everything to the size I'm printing when I send it out.(Although I got some better quality paper and I kind of like how my little Kodak printer is printing off some of the pics. So I might have to consider printing my own stuff from now on.)

babegoodman

Tea8 wrote:

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Hi Tea8 I could be completely wrong here but wouldn't unchecking constrain proportions either give an image of the horse ready for the knackers yard, or one that ate all the hay,depending if up or downsizing the image/canvas size. I thought the idea of keeping it ticked would keep the image proportioned and not distorted a bit like when you free transform using the pull/push handles at the corners of your image area? Again I could be wrong

Tea8 Loc: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.

babegoodman wrote:

Hi Tea8 I could be completely wrong here but wouldn't unchecking constrain proportions either give an image of the horse ready for the knackers yard, or one that ate all the hay,depending if up or downsizing the image/canvas size. I thought the idea of keeping it ticked would keep the image proportioned and not distorted a bit like when you free transform using the pull/push handles at the corners of your image area? Again I could be wrong

Hmm you bring up a good point I forgot about how it would distort the image because that is not the normal length of how they go together. Normally I resize by pixels and usually only do 4x6 which comes out fine when I do the inches for printing. In this case what could be done would be to resize and set one side to the size needed and then having the contrain proportions box checked let it do the other. Then when that's done you could go back and use the crop tool and take off that extra that is on one side of the image. With the pic the OP posted it wouldn't take too much away from the image to take off a little on the right side where there is just background stuff(unless having that stuff in the background was important for the client). Thanks for bringing that up and having me double check that.