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Photoshop image resizing for portrait images?
Ok, I am fairly new to Photoshop and in the past on FCP have simply imported my photos and scaled them accordingly. However, for this project I wanted to do it right so I resized them to 720×480 @ 300dpi for pan/scan purposes. My landscape images look great once I imported them except for my portrait sized and a few square images with no aspect ratio. Besides rotating these images (to be wider than tall) or constraining the proportions, is there another way to keep the images from having that stretched look when they are portrait?
Thanks.
Morris
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you can always leave some black space around them on the left and right, and just scale them to fit the top and bottom of frame.
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Thanks. That’s what I’ve decided to do. But since they are .psd files I’m having to render them but its no big deal.
Later.
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If you import a square pixel image into FCP at 720 x 534, you will notice that under the Motion tab>Distort it will automatically place a value of -12.5. It don’t know how FCP is calculating that number, but that is the number you want.
Import any image that is square, odd shaped or larger (eg. 1024 x 768) and apply the value of -12.5 under Motion tab>Distort and your image should appear at the correct pixel aspect ratio for video.
The reason tutorials and tips suggest creating square pixel images at 720 x 534 in Photoshop and resizing them to 720 x 480 (for DV) to import into FCP is that Photoshop has better bicubic sub-pixel calculating than FCP. But sometimes you want to pan and scan an image at say, 1024 x 768 or larger.
HTH,
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