: Website design - adjusting the size of picture I have a stock photo, it's original size is 5616 × 3744 px. I would like to change its size to be used for my web design in photoshop -

@Merenda852

If you want to avoid have to distort the image, you will have to crop it, at least partially. Since distorted images rarely look good, cropping is often unavoidable. You can reduce it to a minimum, though:


Use Image > Image Size...
(Alt+Ctrl/Option+I or right
Alt+I) to reduce the width of your image to 1600
pixels. Make sure 'constrain proportions' is checked to avoid
distortion.


You'll end up with an image 1600 pixels wide and 1067 pixels high.


Use the Crop tool (C) and type your desired dimensions in the two fields:





Drag around the crop box to cut off part of top and bottom of your picture.
Press Enter/Return or click the checkmark at the right side of the option bar to accept the crop.


If you think you're losing too much from the top and bottom, you might want to try and use Photoshop's photo editing tools (eg. content-aware move in 'Extend' modus) to add more content to the sides of your image before cropping. Good and convincing extension is hard, though.

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@Turnbaugh909

In this case if you don't want to crop an Image then you had to squeeze it from height.
by unchecking the constrain proportion in the Image size menu.

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