Stretching 4x6 to 8x10?

[Snurk71]

Have a question about editing a picture taken in 4x6 ratio to 8x10. The problem I'm having with the crop is that there are elements at the top and bottom of the image that I want to keep. And as near as I can tell, to go from 4x6 to 8x10 you have to cut the vertical (top or bottom). I'm not interested in borders on the sides.

Anyone have any tips or suggestions?

Thanks

[matthew_hull]

Have a question about editing a picture taken in 4x6 ratio to 8x10. The problem I'm having with the crop is that there are elements at the top and bottom of the image that I want to keep. And as near as I can tell, to go from 4x6 to 8x10 you have to cut the vertical (top or bottom). I'm not interested in borders on the sides.

Anyone have any tips or suggestions?

Thanks

Crop it any way that you like; whatever looks best to your eye. Then use matte material to make it look good in the 8x10 frame that you mount it in. Remember to leave a 1/2-inch of dead space, even whitespace, for the matte material to cover securely.

If you aren't going to print it, if it's just for the web, then don't worry about aspect ratios -- crop it as you see fit. Whatever you do, don't "stretch" the image, because it will *look* stretched.

-- Matthew

[MarkBarbieri]

If you post it, people might have more creative suggestions. Sometimes you can stretch a portion of a photo that has nothing with context. Other times you can clone in an additional section.

[Snurk71]

If you post it, people might have more creative suggestions. Sometimes you can stretch a portion of a photo that has nothing with context. Other times you can clone in an additional section.

The picture is of a child at the beach (helping a friend out). I can't do the matte border because she already 16x20 canvas printed her other child without the matte and she's going for matching pictures. Actually, she already printed the second child after cropping w/o realizing she was going to have white borders on the sides. So one w/o a border and one with will look out of place.

I thought about cloning the sky or sand at the upper ends of the image. I wasn't sure how well that would look in the end. I didn't think about stretching the sky/sand sections. That might work too.

Thanks for the ideas to try out.

[manning]

The picture is of a child at the beach (helping a friend out). I can't do the matte border because she already 16x20 canvas printed her other child without the matte and she's going for matching pictures. Actually, she already printed the second child after cropping w/o realizing she was going to have white borders on the sides. So one w/o a border and one with will look out of place.

I thought about cloning the sky or sand at the upper ends of the image. I wasn't sure how well that would look in the end. I didn't think about stretching the sky/sand sections. That might work too.

Thanks for the ideas to try out.


Go ahead and try cloning.

A suggestion. If you are going to play with the picture save the changes in TIFF

Everytime you save in JPEG you will lose pixels and degrade the picture.

[photo_chick]

Why not print 8x12 and get a custom frame, or make a frame. My local craft store will cut the glass for me for free (I have to buy the 10x13 glass but they make the cuts for free) and assembling together a frame is fairly simple.

[handicap18]

Make it an 8x12. You wont lose anything by croping. Only thing is you might have to make your own matte for it.

If you have a Michaels store near you you can pick up a 12x16" frame for a very good price with one of their weekly 40% or 50% of coupons. This size works well for an 8x12 picture (I have about 10 of them hanging around the house) giving a nice 2" matte border.

I used to have a local camera store nearby that sold mattes for an 8x12 print in a 16x18" frame, but they went out of business.

I also have a few 11x14" frames and I found matte's to fit an 8x12 print. In this regard you could just cut an 8x10" picture matte to 8x12" (I believe it would actually be 11 1/2", so you'd cut about 3/4" on each end. The mattes for this at Michaels are about $4 and you can get 11x14" frames for about $10 or less with coupons or sales.

[Andrew Bichard]

editing a picture taken in 4x6 ratio to 8x10. The problem I'm having with the crop is that there are elements at the top and bottom of the image that I want to keep. And as near as I can tell, to go from 4x6 to 8x10 you have to cut the vertical (top or bottom).

4x6 = 8x12. to crop 8x12 to 8x10 you will have to reduce width, not height ... therefore no problem

Andrew

[photo_chick]

4x6 = 8x12. to crop 8x12 to 8x10 you will have to reduce width, not height ... therefore no problem

Andrew

unless the op is talking about a portrait orientation not landscape, which is what it sounds like.