changing photos to approx 16:9

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Jul 27, 2005
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I’m seeking any advice/ suggetsions/ etc
for the most efficient way to change digital images from 1280 x 960 to approx a 16:9 format.
I understand the cropping technique but it does take much of the image view away, of course.
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Kingdom
Jul 27, 2005
"Wolf" wrote in
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I’m seeking any advice/ suggetsions/ etc
for the most efficient way to change digital images from 1280 x 960 to approx a 16:9 format.
I understand the cropping technique but it does take much of the image view away, of course.

You can either keep the width ie 960 OR the new hight, you can’t have both unless you except the distorsions or live with images borders however a small vertical increse in size is usualy unnoticable.

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Jul 30, 2005
Kingdom wrote:

"Wolf" wrote in
news:VuAFe.63755$:

I’m seeking any advice/ suggetsions/ etc
for the most efficient way to change digital images from 1280 x 960 to approx a 16:9 format.
I understand the cropping technique but it does take much of the image view away, of course.

You can either keep the width ie 960 OR the new hight, you can’t have both unless you except the distorsions or live with images borders however a small vertical increse in size is usualy unnoticable.

16:9 is defined by pixel aspect ratio. In PAL the picture size is 720×576 but the pixel aspect ratio is 1,422. So, you have to do a simple math. Picture width in 16×9 square pixels is 1024 (720 x 1,4222). So what you do is: You resize your image to 1024 width with constraint proportions. It´ll give you 1024 x 768. Then you´ll have to crop the image in height to 576. Now you have 1024 x 576. You now resize the image WITHOUT constraint proportions to 720 x 576. You can now check the image with "Image -> Pixel Aspect Ratio" command.

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