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I have many very old photos scanned onto my computer.
The length/breadth ratios of these photos varies by a very great amount.
I want to reformat these in Photoshop so that they will all print completely into a 4" x 6" postcard print.
It does not matter if a large border is introduced on to the print, just so long as it fits completely into the 4" x 6" space.
Commercial photo printers tend to truncate edges of photos that do fit completely into the 4" x 6" space, and this is no good because some descriptions therefore are chopped off.
I have tried to do all this by using the Photoshop "Canvas Size" facility to make a space of 4" x 6" and then using the Select and Transform to scale to the canvas borders.
This works, but there is a proportionate increase in file size to unacceptable levels.
Is there some better way to do this, say by using a 4/6 ratio so that pPhotoshop does it automatically?
Please help, Peter.
The length/breadth ratios of these photos varies by a very great amount.
I want to reformat these in Photoshop so that they will all print completely into a 4" x 6" postcard print.
It does not matter if a large border is introduced on to the print, just so long as it fits completely into the 4" x 6" space.
Commercial photo printers tend to truncate edges of photos that do fit completely into the 4" x 6" space, and this is no good because some descriptions therefore are chopped off.
I have tried to do all this by using the Photoshop "Canvas Size" facility to make a space of 4" x 6" and then using the Select and Transform to scale to the canvas borders.
This works, but there is a proportionate increase in file size to unacceptable levels.
Is there some better way to do this, say by using a 4/6 ratio so that pPhotoshop does it automatically?
Please help, Peter.
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