Resizing a photograph for print (aspect ratio)

Hi, I am hoping someone can help me with something that seems like it should be very simple, but I can't seem to figure out.
When I import my pictures from my DSLR into Bridge and then open in Photoshop the image size is varies, but typical size is 16"x22" and I want to be able to print the full image as an 8"x10" without cropping or loosing any parts of the image. Is there a way to do this? When I try to simply decrease the image size, the measurements never come out to 8"x10", sometimes it actually gets larger and not smaller. I have even tried resizing the canvas and that makes it worse.
Ideally once I get this figured out i would like to try to make it an action so that I can prepare multiple photographs at the same time.
Thanks :-)

Increase the ppi.
Use this formula:
inches X ppi = pixels
Knowning any two of the above values will give you the third.
So 1200 px / 300 ppi = 4"
1200 px / 72 ppi = 16.66"
Luckily Photoshop will do the work for you.
Image>Image Size Unselecting the box for resampling will fix the pixels so they do not change therefore no adding or subtracting pixels.
By editing the physical size the ppi will change - editing the ppi will change the physical size. Try it out, you will see they are tied together, one goes up the other must go down.

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Resizing a photo for printing

I am trying to resize a photo for printing to a 8x10 as it still crops off the top and bottom when printing. I took this with my D3100. How can I do this? I have tried printing several times.

Your image does not fit the 8x10 format - so it will always crop - probably not what you wanted to hear. But a couple of solutions for you:
Print the image on a larger paper so that it will fit, you will end up with a border - but will fit or
Resize the image in Photoshop - Image/Size to something like 9" high, that will automatically reduce the width of your image, but you will still end up with a border, but the whole image wil be there
Hope this helps, and maybe next time you can frame the image in camera to ensure your subject fits in a 4x5 ratio (leave a bunch of headroom at top and bottom)
Mike

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Is there a free program to resize images and not keep the original aspect ratio?
I need to resize loads of images to 100x100 pixels and have tried Image well and IResize yet they do not seem to have an option to not keep the original aspect ratio.
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Here is a little tip if you want to resize your camera images for a slide show.
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Doug.

Doug,
I agree that Actions are the way to go in PS. Mine also change the Color Bit Depth Mode to 8-bit, as I am almost always working in 16-bit, when I process my Camera RAW files. Not sure about the included PS Actions, but in PS CS2, I have just written several that do all the pre-processing, and then do a Automate>Batch for entire folders of these images. I also will keep the files in PSD format, when I do the final Save_As.
This ARTICLE covers most of my operations, using your workflow.
Nice to know that PS installs with Actions that can do most of this. I never saw them in CS/CS2, but maybe just did not look, or perhaps Adobe has added them in CS3/CS4. Nice to know.
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Resizing et moving Components with aspect ratio constraint

hi all
i m creating a GUI application and i need to manipulate components in an internal fram .
thoose components must be moved and resized with the mousse with the constraint of aspect ratio keep
thx for your help

real thxno problem morfus
Don't know whether you've come up with anything, but I got bored and implemented it. Resizeable has been changed so now you can set an aspect ratio on it, either an angle or x and y lengths
package tjacobs.ui;
import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Cursor;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseMotionListener;
//For testing
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
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* Makes a component resizeable. Does not work if there's a layout manager
* messing with things<p>
* <code>
* usage:
*                Component c = ...
*                new Resizeable(c);
*                parent.add(c);
* </code>
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     int fix_pt_y = -1;
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|--------------------------------|
| component on canvas            |
|--------------------------------|
| |--------------------------| |
| | centered child renderer | |
| |--------------------------| |
| |                          | |
| |                          | |
| |                          | |
| |--------------------------| |
|--------------------------------|
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Matt

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I have spent several weeks importing video footage from various types of DVDs (old, new, PAL, NTSC, 4:3 and 16:9), and have encountered just about every aspect ratio problem known to Mac. Along the way, I have discovered a few things by trial and error, and wanted to share them with any other poor souls out there who are dealing with similar issues.
Note that this does not, as far as I know, apply to camcorder footage.
Please respect all local laws regarding copying of DVDs!
Useful programs:
MacTheRipper (freeware)
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Amadeus II (freeware) for processing and converting sound files
iMovie HD
iDVD
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this time I set up my session/sequence to be for 1440x1080, transferred the media into the session. When I drag my first clip into the Canvas - the FCP pops up a window saying that the clip and the sequence don't match. I tell it to correct it - and it puts it back to the 1920x1080 - HDTV 1080i setting.
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I've had a Sony TRV-950E DV-cam since 2003. I've been shooting DV PAL in widescreen.
I just bought Elements 12 to edit my footage, and discovered that the pixel aspect ratio for D1/DV PAL Widescreen has been updated to 1.46 (old value 1.42).
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Unfortunately this is not correct for my footage! I've captured the video from my DV-cam (by firewire) and opened it in Premere and it is streched to be shown as 1050x576.
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I filmed a steady shot of a perfect circle and captured the video from the camera and opened it in Premiere. The pixel ascpect ratio 1.46 makes the display 1050x576.
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I have some HD scenes that I want to import (and downscale) into my SD project also, and I also have a lot of still pictures.
Unless I can change the setup i Elements to the correct ratio 1.42, these stills and sqare-pixel-video (HD) should ideally be streched from 1024x576 to 1050x576 to match (become equally stretched as) all the SD footage.
How do I solve this?
I just bought Elements 12 three days ago.
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Tom from Norway

Tom
After much thought and exploration and experimentation, I have come to the conclusion that there is no practical purpose for doing anything other than importing your media into the project and editing/exporting. I find no distortion in doing so, be it in the video samples that you posted or in still models that I created for the pixel aspect ratio 1.422 vs 1.4587 for D1/DV PAL Widescreen.
If you have not already, please read the following about the Adobe DV Widescreen Pixel Aspect Ratio change from 1.422 to 1.456.
Please start in the first link which gives some get subsequent links in it
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/673877
http://www.mikeafford.com/blog/2009/03/pal-d1-dv-widescreen-square-pixel-settings-in-after -effects-cs4-vs-cs3/
Also, you may find the following article on square and non square pixels of interest. It uses the PAL DV Widescreen 1.422 pixel aspect ratio in its discussion.
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/gerard_rick/pixel_madness.php
Aside from the explanation for the rights and wrongs of the matter, this is what I actually observed taking your PAL DV AVI Widescreen and PAL MPEG2.mpg Widescreen into the same Premiere Elements 12 Windows PAL DV Widescreen project. Along with your video files were still images that I created in Photoshop Elements 11 Full Editor:
1024 x 576 document with a red circle on Layer 2 of the Layers Palette
1050 x 576 document with a red circle on Layer 1 of the Layers Palette.
The red circles were superimposed in creation. The difference in the pixel dimensions between the two are evidenced by Layer 1 content peaking through on the left and right.
The gpsot readout for pixel aspect ratio for each of the videos was
a. Your PAL DV AVI 720 x 576 Widescreen = 1.422
b. Your PAL MPEG2.mpg 720 x 576 Widescreen = 1.422
Each of the Photoshop Elements documents (circles) saved as .psd files 1050 x 576 pixels.
When all were taken into Premiere Elements 12 project manually set for PAL DV Widescreen, they looked like the following, no display of distortion.......
PAL DV AVI Widescreen 720 x 576 (now the pixel aspect ratio in Premiere Elements Properties was shown as 1.4587, not the 1.422 seen in gspot before import)
PAL MPEG2.mpg Widescreen 720 x 576 (now the pixel aspect ratio in Premiere Elements 12 Properties was shown as 1.4587, not the 1.422 seen in gspot before import)
Edit Menu/Preferences/General with check mark next to "Default Scale to Frame Size" was in effect.
As for the red circles stills (1050 x 576 to equate to the square pixel version of 720 x 576 widescreen) did not distort when brought into the Premiere Elements 12 Edit area monitor which is established by the PAL DV Widescreen project preset with the pixel aspect ratio = 1.4587.
The jpg version of the Photoshop Elements document (.psd) 1050 x 576 pixels (square pixels) looked like:
And, when this Timeline was exported Publish+Share/Computer/AVI with the DV PAL Widescreen preset, there was no distortion in the export. It looked undistorted as it did before export.
So, unless I am overlooking a key point here, I cannot see a reason why you cannot use the video sources that you presented for sampling as weil as stills with the 1050 x 576 pixel dimensions.
The only time I see any distortion possibilities is if you use a player that does not recognize the 16:9 flag that stretches the 720 x 576 to 1050 x 576 for display after encoding.
Trying to convert Premiere Elements 12 which uses the 1.4587 pixel aspect ratio for PAL DV Widescreen into a Premiere Elements 7 which uses the 1.422 pixel aspect ratio for PAL DV Widescreen is up hill in spite of creative thinking on your side.
Please review and let me know if you are seeing another different from what I am reporting with the samples that you posted.
Thank you.
ATR

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