Help with printing

[sue cara]

Let me just preface this with...I am very new to this: I have some photos that were taken in landscape mode. I want to change the orientation so I can print them out in portrait mode for picture frames. What are the steps that I would need to take to achieve this..? Thanks for your help.

[Beth Haney]

I'm assuming you realize some cropping is going to have to be done in order to change the orientation, right? OK. Let's say your current image is 5 in wide and 7 inches high. Select your Rectangular Marquee tool, and then in the Option Bar, choose Fixed Size, and set the dimensions to (example) 4 in wide and 6 in high. Click on the picture, and you will get a 4 X 6 area surrounding by the famous "marching ants." Set your mouse down anywhere within the selection and move it around until it's encircling the area you want to keep. Once it's where you want it, go to Image>Crop. That will give you a 4 X 6 portrait image.

If you have a 5 X 7 landscape and want to make it into a 5 X 7 portrait, that will take more fiddling and may also result in the need for even more of the original image to be cropped out. To do that, you need to go to Image>Resize>Image Size and continue to decrease the image resolution (still with resampling off if at all possible) until the side that had measured 5 inches goes to something slightly in excess of 7 inches. The width will also expand proportionately. Once you have your new image in the larger size, use the method described above for cropping but with 5 and 7 used in the Option Bar.

And always remember first to make sure you're using a non-lossy format like TIFF or PSD for any editing and also to always work on a copy of your original!

Good luck, and if this didn't answer your question fully, feel free to repost.

[Juergen D]

Sue,

It depends on what exactly you are trying to print (image size, paper size).
But one thing you can certainly do, is to rotate an image by 90 degrees and
that way print it *sideways*. After rotating go File>Print Preview and see
how the image fits on your paper.

Juergen

[Juergen D]

Sue,

You do the rotation by going to Image>Rotate>90 degrees left (or right).

Juergen

[Beth Haney]

Juergen - after I posted my epistle, I realized she could have meant something as straightforward as how to rotate an image. I'm glad you came back with those instructions. :)

[Juergen D]

Beth,

Now I can admit it: I never read your instructions until after I posted. I
was on the newsreader and had overlooked your post. When I realized that I
hadn't duplicated something you had written, I just let it stand... :)

Juergen

[R. Burr Rutland]

Sue, you have good advice from Beth and Juergen. I often shoot portraits of individuals in landscape, because I control the camera more securely in horizontal vice vertical. Then to print in erect position, I rotate, easy. But if you crop and resize, be aware that some image distortion can occur, like squeezing the face to narrow shape. As long as you work with copy of the original, you can fix the copy by Undo and rework until it looks right. Save the altered image as a copy with different name before anything else is done. I lost a night's work by not doing the Save before trying to Print! Burr

[sue cara]

Hi All,
Thanks for all the responses....just to clarify, I don't just simply want to rotate it (that much I was able to figure out...:-). As it is a portrait on a person, I want to be able to print it in vertical mode. Thanks for all the advice. I will give it a try this evening and hopefully I will succeed.
Thanks again,
Sue

[Peter Duniho]

"Beth Haney" <member@adobeforums.com> wrote in message
news:2ccd8019.3@webx.la2eafNXanI...

> Juergen - after I posted my epistle, I realized she could have
> meant something as straightforward as how to rotate an image.

It was great of Juergen to add the comment he did, but I think you read the
original post correctly, since she specifically says that she wants to
display the photos in portrait frames (which I take to mean a frame oriented
in the portrait direction, since many frames can be displayed either way).

I think your epistle was probably very helpful to her, especially the second
paragraph (the first seems to deal with just cropping a portrait image to a
smaller portrait image, which isn't what she's trying to do, I think).

Pete