Easiest way to create 4:3 or 16:9 picture aspect ratio

john.williams93 wrote on 10/6/2016, 3:01 PM

Does anyone know how to create 4:3 or 16:9 picture aspect ratio Photo Manager, Paint and Photoshop don't give me that simple option. I'm clueless lol

ps I found a ratio calculator that told me that 16:9 = 1280 by 960 pixels so changed it to that and dragged it onto my templated project and still the head is cut off slightly. I don't get it, is this a fault with Photostory, why can it not adjust the picture itself?

Photostory Delux 2016

Step by step instructions please.

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johnebaker wrote on 10/6/2016, 6:14 PM

See this video I have created.

Clck the Youtube option in the player window for best quality

HTH

John EB

john.williams93 wrote on 10/9/2016, 1:55 PM

Thanks, I've just bought Photo Manager as I thought it would be more compatible with Photostory. I did the cropping before, but really need to resize the aspect ration for the original whole picture. Either way it didn't seem to fit in with the photostory Deluxe slideshow template

johnebaker wrote on 10/9/2016, 3:05 PM

. . . . to resize the aspect ratio . . . .

If you do that and the scene includes people they may not be very happy with you .

Resizing one AR to another ends up either making, buildings, people etc , tall and skinny or short and fat.

The only way is to crop to maintain the correct proportions within the image.

The only other option is to letterbox (black bars top and bottom) or pillarbox (black bars left and right) the image, depending on its AR and whether portrait or landscape, to fit all the image into a different AR project.

HTH

John EB

john.williams93 wrote on 10/9/2016, 3:16 PM

Thanks great. I have an idea, it's to put the photo onto a Christmas wallpaper where the photo is smaller than the wallpaer leaving a Chrismas frame it's a Christmas video. That way I can crop the whole thing whithout losing part of the photo.