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Gotta cut a portrait down to size

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imported_Ziggy

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mmk, this is in photoshop. I have an portrait that is 6 in high by 6.319 in wide. I want it to be 6 in high by 4 in wide. I figure I need to cut 167 pixels off horizontaly to get it to the right size. How do I do this in photoshop?

Thanks!
 
you can blow it up to be 4 inches wide and have the height change proportionally, then make a new image with 6 in by 4 in and paste the old image into it. Then you can center it however you wish.

im sure theres an easier way to do it but im a huge photoshop noob and this way serves my purposes
 
well, when the width is 4, the hight is ~ 3.7 in. I think I just can cut some pixels off a side and have it the right ratio to be 4 wide by 6 high.
 
Originally posted by: Ziggy
well, when the width is 4, the hight is ~ 3.7 in. I think I just can cut some pixels off a side and have it the right ratio to be 4 wide by 6 high.
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if you're doing it proportionally how can the height end up smaller than the width. you're not doing the proportions right
 
basically you want to crop the picture? If you try to resize it, you'll get messed up ratios (things will be squised) because you're trying to squeeze 6" of info into 4" resizing the canvas does something similar to cropping, but you can't choose whre it changes the canvas from.
 
Originally posted by: Ziggy
When I resize the canvas, it leaves blank strips on the top and bottom. Way around this?
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I just did the exact procedure on 3 different images on Photoshop 6.0, perfectly fine.

Just post the pic or send it to me.
 
Originally posted by: TechnoKid
basically you want to crop the picture? If you try to resize it, you'll get messed up ratios (things will be squised) because you're trying to squeeze 6" of info into 4" resizing the canvas does something similar to cropping, but you can't choose whre it changes the canvas from.
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Yes, you can. It's called anchoring.
 
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