Day 1 Clarification

[editor]

Here's a good question from day 1, and my answer:

Hello,

I have a question about a point made in lesson one of *Portrait
Retouching with Photoshop Elements.

At the end of the lesson, he showed how to reduce the width of the photo
by about 2%. But he didnt say WHY I would want to do that. Can you let
me know?

Thanks!

Dave


Hi Dave,
Good point - I should have mentioned how this just "slims & trims" people a little. Just like they say TV cameras add 10 pounds, many people feel they look "bigger" in photos, so this is a way to address that.

Dave Cross

[bwolford]

TV production staffs do the same thing by building the set with the doors slightly wider than normal so people standing in or next to them look thinner.

Wives do it by making their husbands eat bigger portions.

This little trick is played throughtout our every day life and we don't even know it.

Brice
"Actively slimming all of my photos right now"

[Dorrie H.]

Brice,

There's also Liquify in PSE. :lol: :lol:

Dorrie

[GaryK]

Dorrie

Been playing with that one have you??????? :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Wendy]

You can, of course, do it the opposite way and make them fatter :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:


Wendy

[GaryK]

Is there an easy way to rearrange ..I just want mine moved around. :lol: :lol:

[Wendy]

Gary ...

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


Wendy

[Dorrie H.]

I'm not confessing to anything....

I'll leave it up to your imagination....I know you all have one. :D

Dorrie

[Jill]

OK... I don't know why this continues to confuse me... image size, how and what to change it to. But, here's what I do when I first open my image (or these are my settings).

The image size is: around 23.4M, the doc size is 48.7 x 32.4 at 72 res. I only change the resolution to 300 and it downsizes the width & height. I do NOT have checked "Scale Styles, Constrain Prop & Resample Image, Bicubic. In order to work closely, with a lot of pixels, am I doing this right??

Any help would be appreciated!

[willpresley]

Jill one way of doing this is to turn off resample and then change the width or heigth (only one) to the size you desire -- the pixels will jump from 72 to about 300 plus or minus a few dozen. This way you can get the approximate size you want and the crop off the extra bits to make the picture fit the size you want.

[GaryK]

Jill

Seems about right.. I don't get what you are having trouble with? Sorry.

If you don't resample, you can think of it kind of like Play doh. You can have a nice dense square say 1"x 1" (300 dpi) or a bigger less dense square 3"x 3" (100 dpi) still the same amount of playdoh just spread out more.

I know the math isn't right :lol: :lol: just an example. :wink:

[Jill]

Thanks, Will & Gary!

Gary, I think I'm making it harder than it is and I like your example.

Will, I love your suggestion.

This board is the best in getting answers FAST!

[GaryK]

Jill

I think part of the problem most people have with this, is that you can zoom in and out on the screen as well as change size. On the screen this looks like the same thing, and with screen resolutions lower than print, it is hard to tell the difference.