: Resizing an image to an exact pixel proportion without getting a squeezing distortion Here's the issue: I'm trying to upload a drawing of mine onto Society6, they require the image to be specific

@Sarah814

First:

You have to make sure your image is within the Society6 desired ratio.
The distortion depends on the initial ratio of the image. To scale the image to 3300px/5100px means the original image has to been in the scale ratio of approximately 0.6471*(Divide the Width by the Height and then Round off to about 4 decimal places)*.


This means if your actual/initial width is maybe 800px, the height
should be around (800/0.6471) which is approximately 1236px. As long as
the initial scale is not within that ratio, then you have to crop the
image to scale before you transform it.


Second:

To Resize/Transform the Image, Open you ratio-scaled image with Photoshop
Navigate to the Image sizing through the Image Menu option through Image > Image Size >

From the Image Size dialog window that show up, Change the Width to 3300px and make sure Constrain to proportion link is active(light shade of blue). That way the Height will automatically become 5100px (Or close depending on the rounding off you made when cropping your original image).

Summary:



I got a sample avatar 256px by 256px(On the Right), with a ration of 1. With a width of 256px, the height has to be (256/0.647) = 395.6111px ~ 395.6px.
I then Created a new File and placed my image into it(On the Left) with (256px by 395.6px)
Resizing the width to 3300px (Center) gives me a width approximately around 5100px. Thus a distortion less Scaling if you round off well.


Note: However like you notice, Croping will chop off some parts of the image or bring unecessary white space/empty pixels as you notice above. For that case you can do a content aware scale as +ACEkin advises, to get the main content of your drawing "in focus" before cropping.

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@Speyer780

If you want it to be the exact same size and without distortions, well, not all of the photo will be able to appear, I mean, it may be cropped a bit on the edges. You start with Ctrl+T to transform. Hold Shift while you're resizing. When you're done you click enter, and make sure the images fills the whole artboard. Then you add the whole thing a clipping mask with the same size that they gave you. It's probably the only way. Cropping may work too.

Note: It should be 3300 px wide by 5100 high, which obviously means it will be a kinda HD portrait picture, so I think it's better to use a portrait picture instead of a landscape one.

I hope this helped :)

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