Cropping a landscape to a portrait

Hi, I have a landscape photo I would like to crop into a portrait with the 4x6 dimensions, obviously iPhoto knows what a landscape and portrait photo is so I have no option to crop it the way I want unless doing it with no lock on but then how do I know i've got the right 4x6 dimensions.
Any help here on this?
Cheers

It is a two step selection process - select the 4x6 constraint then go to the constraint again and you can now choose landscape or portrait
LN

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