converting portrait images to landscape?

I received a Kodak 8x10 digital picture frame for Christmas. I have a
variety of images I am uploading into the frame from native digitals to ones
that were scanned to digital from photos. Most of the digital images were
in landscape mode and presented no problems during display, however some of
the ones scanned from photos are portrait and show up compressed. Is there
any way I can convert these portrait images to landscape so the images are
shown properly?

Thank you

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:26:06 -0500, "barry fleaman"
wrote:

I received a Kodak 8x10 digital picture frame for Christmas. I have a
variety of images I am uploading into the frame from native digitals to ones
that were scanned to digital from photos. Most of the digital images were
in landscape mode and presented no problems during display, however some of
the ones scanned from photos are portrait and show up compressed. Is there
any way I can convert these portrait images to landscape so the images are
shown properly?

You need to add to the image canvas so that the aspect ratio is correct.
Some image programs can easily do that, others not. You can always
create a new blank image with a black background (in landscape format)
and then paste the portrait image into it. The result will be a sort of
sideways letterbox format for your portrait mode images.
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

barry fleaman wrote:

I received a Kodak 8x10 digital picture frame for Christmas. I have a
variety of images I am uploading into the frame from native digitals to ones
that were scanned to digital from photos. Most of the digital images were
in landscape mode and presented no problems during display, however some of
the ones scanned from photos are portrait and show up compressed. Is there
any way I can convert these portrait images to landscape so the images are
shown properly?

I deal with that by starting with images with sufficient pixel
resolution to permit re-sizing without loss of quality. Find out what
your picture-frame pixel size is (mine is 800 x 480 @ 72 pixels/in) and
use a photo editor such as Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to crop an
appropriately sized piece out of the portrait image -- nnn x nnn pixels
@ 72 pixels/inch.

For that matter, I also crop landscape images in this fashion. If you
do not crop your images Kodak will do it for you, and you are likely to
prefer your own custom cropping over the frame's standard cropping.

Finally, tell everyone you know: Don't take photos in portrait mode if
you are not a professional photographer!

Davoud

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