* jenn golden [11-16-12 16:32]:

Hi - I am a bit of a newbie to this prog. And the issue I am having, is that I created a Magazine cover using my son's football pic. To make a long story short - I can create a fabulous 4x6, but when I try to send it out to blow up to an 8x10, it crops way too much of the cover... How do I save or edit the pic as an 8x10 so that I do not loose my added graphics and artwork? Please help! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

from 4x6 to 8x10 is different ratio and either you loose some picture or have blank space. 4x6 expands to 8x12 or 6.67x10 An option, save your additions to a layer and shrink the layer to the dimentions to fit the intended size and merge the layer to 8x10

without carnival mirror type distortion, there is no easy change from 4x6 to 8x10.

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Am 16.11.2012 22:30, schrieb jenn golden:

Hi - I am a bit of a newbie to this prog. And the issue I am having, is that I created a Magazine cover using my son's football pic. To make a long story short - I can create a fabulous 4x6, but when I try to send it out to blow up to an 8x10, it crops way too much of the cover... How do I save or edit the pic as an 8x10 so that I do not loose my added graphics and artwork? Please help! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Jenn

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Hello,

I know, this might be a little bit too much for someone new to the program, but one of the better ways to do it would be installing and using the liquid rescale-plugin
(http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/). It will scale the image instead of cropping it, so there won't be anything cut or borders added in. But other than the normal scale-tool, it tries to detect important parts of the image (like faces or text) and keeps their proportion the same.
Feel free to email me if you decide to do it this way and need some help.

bw, Tobl

I am assuming you're asking it this way too because you saved it as a flattened version of your work? I mean, if you have a version of it with all the layers as live text and added graphics still separate, you could just save or copy out another of the background pic and scale or resize to your wishes, and then re-add and size or position the text and/or graphics according to taste, right? Hoping you did save with layers intact somewhere. Daniel

On 11/16/12, Tobias Lunte wrote:

Am 16.11.2012 22:30, schrieb jenn golden:

Hi - I am a bit of a newbie to this prog. And the issue I am having, is that I created a Magazine cover using my son's football pic. To make a long story short - I can create a fabulous 4x6, but when I try to send it out to blow up to an 8x10, it crops way too much of the cover... How do I save or edit the pic as an 8x10 so that I do not loose my added graphics and artwork? Please help! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Jenn

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Hello,

I know, this might be a little bit too much for someone new to the program, but one of the better ways to do it would be installing and using the liquid rescale-plugin
(http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/). It will scale the image instead of cropping it, so there won't be anything cut or borders added in. But other than the normal scale-tool, it tries to detect important parts of the image (like faces or text) and keeps their proportion the same.
Feel free to email me if you decide to do it this way and need some help.

bw, Tobl