On Tue, 15 May 2007 18:38:50 -0700, wrote:
Got another qustion. The photo that I am wanting to use as my business card, appears to be much bigger than the new document or sample template for creating business cards in Photoshop CS. Do it have to get the size of my photo to match the sample business card template? If so, how would I go about doing that? I would provide a screenshot to show you what I am looking at, but can’t paste it in here.
Hi Demille. Try this….you say that the photo is larger than the sample template that you want to use. First, open the sample template, then click on "Image"…..scroll down and click on "Image Size". This will tell you the exact size of the template. Write down the width, height, and resolution.
Now open the photo you want to use. Go to the tool bar and select the Crop Tool, or hit the letter "C" on the keyboard. You will see boxes at the top of the window where you need to fill in the Width, Height, and Resolution.(make sure you also select pixels/inch) Fill in those boxes with the information you wrote down from the sample template.
Now, hold the cursor at one corner of the photo and drag it diagonally to the other corner of the photo. This will show you exactly what will need to be cropped off in order to make the photo fit the sample template. You can move your selection by using the arrow keys. Once you have made your selection, just click on the check mark at the top right of the screen. If you don’t want to make that selection, just click on the circle with a line through it. Now all you have to do is to copy the cropped photo onto your sample template.
I hope this helps.
Talker
