how to make 4x6 horizontal pic into 4x6 vertical pic?

[piclover]

Can anybody give me a tip? I keep trying and trying but get the same result. There isn't enough pic to make vertical. Does that make sense?

[Rusty]

Think about it... how can you possibly make a side that's 4" suddenly be 6"? :) You can't do that.

Now think about "form" - yes, you can do this.

You have something that's 4x6 and that's an aspect ratio of 1.50 (6/4=1.5)
If you want to make what's now your short side (4) become the longest side, then the new short side must become 2.67 (4/2.6667=1.5)

Set your crop tool to those numbers...

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1aXxWNrqucHNAGNBzCCB5VurYEcCl1_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1aXxWNrqucHNAGNBzCCB5VurYEcCl1)

When you send this to your printer, it doesn't matter what numbers you assign as "size". The printer doesn't know or care. As long as this looks like a 4x6 (it has an aspect ratio of 1.50), and if you tell the printer to use 4x6 paper ...then, you will get a 4x6 print (even if Elements thinks it's 4x2.67)

Rusty

PS - obviously, you have to crop part of your image away. Or... add canvas; that's another subject :)

[piclover]

Oh Rusty! *banging head against the wall* You are so right. :) Actually, I have heard the ratios discussed so often but have never fully understood it until you put it that way. I knew there had to be a way to get the outcome without somehow magically adding inches. Thank you, thank you!

[Rusty]

You are welcome...

...and, how do you think I figured out "aspect ratios"? By asking the same kind of questions you just asked -- and some nice person on this forum explained it to me :)

Stick around. You will be answering Qs before you know it.

Rusty