Beth – I still can’t move the boundary area around; I only create some weird lines. Any tips as how you make the area move?
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What you’re experiencing has nothing to do with the image having been
scanned. You’re running into the "aspect ratio" of the image. In this case, you’ve got a square image that you want to have become a rectangle. That can’t be done without significantly increasing the size of the original and then cropping out the excess. The fact it’s a scanned photo could work to your advantage, though, because it lets you control the resolution of the digital file.
First you have to increase the size of the original picture so that the
original becomes 6 inches square instead of 3. Once you’ve increased the overall size, you’re going to have to take off 2 inches either in width or height, depending on whether you want the picture 6 in wide and 4 high or vice versa. In other words, you have to make that original big enough to you can cut a 4 X 6 chunk out of it.
If I were doing this, I’d scan the 3 x 3 picture at a resolution of
600ppi. Then I would open it on my desktop, go to Image>Resize>Image Size and with NO checkmark by the Resample box, I would just change the resolution to 300ppi. Then I’d have a 6 x 6 image at 300ppi. (There’s nothing magical about this resolution, by the way, but it’s a good target and is easy to use for demonstration.) Once I had my 6 x 6 picture at 300ppi, I would choose the Rectangular Marquee tool, I’d change to Fixed Size in the Option Bar, set the width and height in inches, and then click on the image. That would give me a perfect 4 X 6 outline that I’d move around until I had selected the part of the image I wanted to keep. Then Image>Crop cuts it down.
Yes, you are going to lose some of your picture, but most have something
extraneous at the top, bottom, or sides that isn’t needed anyway. But, that’s the only way you’ll get a 4 x 6 picture from a 3 x 3 original.
Good luck. By the way, Chuck and Nancy were both doing fine with their
instructions, but you seemed to have not had enough detail to accomplish the task. I hope this helps.
