Cropping a old photo

Hi all,
Not 100% if I am in the right group or not but hopefully someone can help.

This is probably a very very easy thing to do for someone experienced with different photoshop etc.

Basically I have a old newspaper cutting from 1968. I need to get the photograph of the football team from the top of the page. When I scan in the paper it comes to relativity good quality. However the photo is not a standard photo size.

I want to resize it to 7×5 but if I try crop it I lose out on a good bit of the picture. What I did was make a plain gray background sheet (that was 7×5) in word and then copied the image onto it so as to make it the standard size, and the leftover parts were just background. However I was not able to save this as a .jpg. I have MS Paint, Adobe Photoshop Elements and a trial version of Coral PSP.

Hope this makes sense.
All help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Niall.

Niall 84 wrote:

Hi all,
Not 100% if I am in the right group or not but hopefully someone can help.

This is probably a very very easy thing to do for someone experienced with different photoshop etc.

Basically I have a old newspaper cutting from 1968. I need to get the photograph of the football team from the top of the page. When I scan in the paper it comes to relativity good quality. However the photo is not a standard photo size.

I want to resize it to 7×5 but if I try crop it I lose out on a good bit of the picture. What I did was make a plain gray background sheet (that was 7×5) in word and then copied the image onto it so as to make it the standard size, and the leftover parts were just background. However I was not able to save this as a .jpg. I have MS Paint, Adobe Photoshop Elements and a trial version of Coral PSP.

Hope this makes sense.
All help would be greatly appreciated.

I can’t see the picture to know exactly what you need or want to do, so I give you 2 basic options. Also, I don’t use Photoshop Element to know where the option locates, but

– Selecting the CROP TOOL then set to whatever standard size you wish, then just select the erea you want to crop. Since you set the specific RATIO then Photoshop will maintain the exact RATIO.

– Creating a new canvas with the RATIO you want, then drag & drop the photo to it, then fill the emptied space. How to fill the emptied space will depend on your photoshop skill

However I was not able to save this as a .jpg.

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:10:20 -0600, Joel wrote:

Niall 84 wrote:

Hi all,
Not 100% if I am in the right group or not but hopefully someone can help.

This is probably a very very easy thing to do for someone experienced with different photoshop etc.

Basically I have a old newspaper cutting from 1968. I need to get the photograph of the football team from the top of the page. When I scan in the paper it comes to relativity good quality. However the photo is not a standard photo size.

I want to resize it to 7×5 but if I try crop it I lose out on a good bit of the picture. What I did was make a plain gray background sheet (that was 7×5) in word and then copied the image onto it so as to make it the standard size, and the leftover parts were just background. However I was not able to save this as a .jpg. I have MS Paint, Adobe Photoshop Elements and a trial version of Coral PSP.

Hope this makes sense.
All help would be greatly appreciated.

I can’t see the picture to know exactly what you need or want to do, so I give you 2 basic options. Also, I don’t use Photoshop Element to know where the option locates, but

– Selecting the CROP TOOL then set to whatever standard size you wish, then just select the erea you want to crop. Since you set the specific RATIO then Photoshop will maintain the exact RATIO.

– Creating a new canvas with the RATIO you want, then drag & drop the photo to it, then fill the emptied space. How to fill the emptied space will depend on your photoshop skill

There is no difference between the full Photoshop and Elements in this respect.

Thanks very much,

That worked grand, much appreciated.

Niall.