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Dolls N DreamsI'm about to pull my hair out, I know I'm doing something wrong.............I need this picture of Cooper 170 x 170 pixels........
when I try to do it, he looks distorted and out of shape............... 
I have checked every option, constrain proportions etc, and what is the difference of image size and canvas size..........I'm drowning here....LOL thx
here is the picture I'm trying to size down....
Hi there
The problem is that the image is longer than it is wide and you want a perfectly square image. This means that you are going to either lose part of the face or end up with blank bands either side of the image. If you started with a larger image and then cropped it, you need to go back to the original and crop it into a square shape. It should then be fairly straight forward to resize it. It is Image > Image size you want. Ensure that Constrain proportions is ticked.
Regards
Sue
PennsylvaniaIt's a question of aspect ratio. (The ratio of width to height.)
Your original image, as posted in the picture thread, is 473 pixels wide and 700 pixels tall. The aspect ratio is 1:1.48.
No matter what size, if you want to keep the picture from looking "stretched out," you have to obey the 1:1.48 aspect ratio. If you want the image to be 170 pixels tall, it will have to be 115 pixels wide. (170÷1.48=114.8 then round up to 115.) If you want the image to be 170 pixels wide it will have to be 252 pixels tall. (170x1.48=251.6 then round up to 252.)
If the picture must be 170 pixels tall and 170 pixels wide, you are going to have to crop the picture instead of resize it.
Using Photoshop, get your crop tool. (It looks like a picture frame.)
In the Option Bar at the top of the screen, a few boxes will appear. (Width, Height & Resolution.)
Type in: Width=170. Height=170. Resolution=72.
Now, drag over the picture with your crop tool. A square will appear.
Drag the edges of that square so that it frames the picture the way you want it then hit [Return].
The picture will be cropped and simultaneously resized to 170 pixels tall and 170 pixels wide and it won't be "streched" or "squashed."
If you don't put any numbers into the option bar, the cropping tool can be any size you want, based on how you drag it.
If you put numbers into the option bar, the cropping tool will hold you to the aspect ratio you enter. Photoshop does the math for you and makes the cropping box obey the aspect ratio. All you have to do is frame the picture the way you like.
There is a "clear" button on the option bar if you don't like the settings in the entry boxes.
The little "double arrow" button between the boxes is a "flip aspect ratio" button which exchanges the height and width numbers with just one click. (In other words, it will turn a "tall, skinny" rectangle into a "short, wide" one or vice versa.)
It's as easy as that! :)
(Cooper @ 170x170)
Creative Design Studio (RKR4CDS)Randy - as always, you gave perfectly clear, useable information!!
I rarely use Crop-to-a-particular-size, but I've copied off your set just as a backup and put it into my PS manual.
Thank You!!
(Do you happen to know anything about Blogger/Blogspot?? I'm about to request info on that!)
Dolls N DreamsIt's a question of aspect ratio. (The ratio of width to height.)
Your original image, as posted in the picture thread, is 473 pixels wide and 700 pixels tall. The aspect ratio is 1:1.48.
No matter what size, if you want to keep the picture from looking "stretched out," you have to obey the 1:1.48 aspect ratio. If you want the image to be 170 pixels tall, it will have to be 115 pixels wide. (170÷1.48=114.8 then round up to 115.) If you want the image to be 170 pixels wide it will have to be 252 pixels tall. (170x1.48=251.6 then round up to 252.)
If the picture must be 170 pixels tall and 170 pixels wide, you are going to have to crop the picture instead of resize it.
Using Photoshop, get your crop tool. (It looks like a picture frame.)
In the Option Bar at the top of the screen, a few boxes will appear. (Width, Height & Resolution.)
Type in: Width=170. Height=170. Resolution=72.
Now, drag over the picture with your crop tool. A square will appear.
Drag the edges of that square so that it frames the picture the way you want it then hit [Return].
The picture will be cropped and simultaneously resized to 170 pixels tall and 170 pixels wide and it won't be "streched" or "squashed."If you don't put any numbers into the option bar, the cropping tool can be any size you want, based on how you drag it.
If you put numbers into the option bar, the cropping tool will hold you to the aspect ratio you enter. Photoshop does the math for you and makes the cropping box obey the aspect ratio. All you have to do is frame the picture the way you like.There is a "clear" button on the option bar if you don't like the settings in the entry boxes.
The little "double arrow" button between the boxes is a "flip aspect ratio" button which exchanges the height and width numbers with just one click. (In other words, it will turn a "tall, skinny" rectangle into a "short, wide" one or vice versa.)
It's as easy as that! :)
http://www.teddy-talk.com/upload/2010/C … 70x170.jpg
(Cooper @ 170x170)
OH THANK YOU so much ....you are a life saver, thanks for teaching me that... :hug: :hug: :hug:
Dolls N DreamsHere is why I needed the picture.....................
http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clic … -cooper400
THANKS!
PennsylvaniaCropping is one of the things I do most often.
Right now, I am in the middle of a project for a client. I was given an archival box of 150 Kodachrome slides. I have to scan them to the computer, color balance them, retouch all the defects then crop/resize them to the desired settings. Every picture needs to be 1,500 pixels wide and 1,000 pixels tall but, when scanned, they are not guaranteed to be any particular size.
So, what I do it scan them a bit larger than I need them, edit them and crop them down to size. That way I don't lose any image quality. It's easier to scale an image to a smaller size than it is to make it larger.
I'm nearly done with the project. I have 125 out of 150 slides done. I'll probably have them ready to deliver tomorrow.
But, since I was already in the middle of cropping a whole bunch of pictures, I already had the software running. It only took about 30 seconds to do.
Dolls N DreamsWell thank you again, and for the lesson 
