scaleing and importing photo files

[Floh Peters]

If you are working in 640*480 in Media 100 (you only should work in 640*480 when working with the old Vincent hardware and not with P6000) you need to scale your image to 640*480 in Photoshop as well. They should import correctly into Media 100 then.

[Bill Page]

Thanks for the reply.
I do have the P6000 card, and am scaling to 640*480 (or visverca depending on the file width) and it imports as a postage stamp size…
Maybe I’m not describing this cleary, but do you have time to walk me thru it?
Bill P

[Floh Peters]

Problem is that probably quite a bit has changed in the file import since V5.5. But if you are sure that your image is 640 pixels wide and 480 pixels high, it should import correctly into Media 100. Maybe you can post a screenshot of your import settings here?

[Bill Page]

Floh:
MY editing computer is not connected to the internet….let me go back and check my rescaling….just maybe I was not doing this at the right size (what was I thinking), as embarrassing as this will be (it has been a couple years since I needed to scale)….
It will be a few of days before I am in front of my editing computer again, but I will let you know….
Thank you for taking this time….

Bill P

[Bill Page]

Flh: I am back….
on this computer I have the files I rescaled….scaling 640w x 480h to a vertical photo file distorts it by enlongating and squashing it..and ideas on this?
Bill

[Floh Peters]

If the source image is not in an 4:3 aspect ratio, scaling to 640*480 will distort the image. Try scaling proportionally to 640*whatever or whatever*480, depending which scaling gives you the number on the “whatever” property that is larger than the expected value. Then crop to 640*480, e.g. by creating a rectangular selection with a fixed size of 640*480 and cropping everything outside the selection.

[Bill Page]

OK, I get that…Will try it and get back to you in a few days.
Thanks.
bill

[Bill Page]

Floh: are you there???? someone????
I made sure I was scaling digital photo files at 640wx480h…still the imported image is postage stamp size.
A few oddities:
-when I convert the tif file(it was scaled to 50% size,1226wx1752h pixels) to pic, but DO NOT RESCALE pixels, it imports almost the correct size, cutting off a bit of the top and bottom (as viesed in Boris).
-if I format to pic and resize pixels to 640×480, image is postage stamp size….

Any ideas? I’ve a lot of photos to import….

Thanks.
Bill

[Floh Peters]

Please send me one of your scaled files to floh (at) mac (dot) com. I will have a look

[Bill Page]

Floh: I emailed you two rescaled files….
Question: to rescale files in photoshop, should files be ‘IMPORTED’via the import window, and as anti-alisa pict file into photoshop? I have just been opening photoshop,and thru the OPEN window I opened the files (without IMPORT) to rescale.
Thanks.
Bill