Re: Suggestions for Resizing Photo software.

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:50:44 +0000, Dudley Hanks wrote:

>>> that I put in at 8" height but the best composition is 8" x 10.86''
>>> and I need to compress the width to 8 x 10 for the frame. Thanks in
>>> advance. Will
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> 
> The way I read your post, you want to "compress" only the width.  Am I
> correct?
> 
> From my experience, that isn't the best way to approach framing a shot
> like that.  Compressing only one direction will skew the perspective of
> the whole image and leave it looking slightly exaggerated in one
> direction.
> 
> Perhaps a better approach would be to simply crop 0.43" from each side
> of the long dimension.  That would bring it down to 10" without messing
> up the aspect ratio.
> 
> Good Luck,
> Dudley

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