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FIGURE 10-3
A scanned photo prior to resizing
FIGURE 10-4
A photo in which the height dimension has been increased
in greater proportion to the width dimension
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FIGURE 10-5
A photo in which the width dimension has been increased in greater
proportion to the height dimension
Some programs, such as PhotoDeluxe and even Microsoft Word, have a utility
that I find preferable for resizing photos without the risk of distortion. This feature
allows you simply to double-click on the photo and reset all its dimensions at once by
specifying the new size as a percentage of the original size. For example, a 50 percent
size would mean you reduce all the dimensions by half. A specification of 200 percent
means you double the size of the scanned photo. A Microsoft Word dialog box for
resizing images with this type of utility is shown in Figure 10-6.
The resizing feature is particularly useful when you’re working with
templates. It allows you to manually resize a photo until it fits perfectly
within the cutout area of a template, as shown in Figure 10-7.
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FIGURE 10-6
A resizing utility that allows you to exercise accurate control over
photo dimensions
Width
resizing
control

Height
resizing
control
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FIGURE 10-7
This photo needs to be resized to fit the greeting card template.
Resizing
boundary box
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Altering the Angle and Inverting Your Subjects
Some of the most frequent editing tasks you perform might involve repositioning or
inverting your photos. Fortunately, virtually all image-editing programs come with
tools and utilities for straightening crooked shots or making your photo subjects face a
different direction.
Straightening a Crooked Shot
In the excitement of getting a good shot, it’s not uncommon to forget to hold your
camera level. Fortunately most image-editing programs (and even some scanner
software) comes with tools that allow you to reposition your photos. When used with
the cropping tool, rotating a photo can be just the right remedy for a crooked shot.
Consider the photo in Figure 10-8. It’s a great shot, but crooked. It looks like that
computer is about to slide off the desk into the subject’s lap! Using PhotoSuite 4, I
carefully rotated the photo about 5 degrees to the left, as shown in Figure 10-9. Then
I used my cropping tool to trim the photo so that it retained its original shape and
dimensions. The finished result—rotated and cropped—appears in Figure 10-10.
FIGURE 10-8

This is a nice shot, but crooked.
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