Square image size

Written by Steve Patterson.

In this Photoshop tutorial, we're going to look at how to easily crop a photo to whatever frame size you need.

A common question we receive has to do with resizing photos. Specifically, how do you resize a photo to a standard frame size like 5x7", 8x10" or 11x14" without distorting the photo and making everyone in it appear tall and thin or short and fat?

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Here's an example of the problem.

I take many of my photos with a Canon Digital Rebel XT, which is an 8MP camera. Here's a photo I took with it last winter:

The original photo.

Now, let's say I want to print this photo as an 8x10" so I can frame it.

Square size photoshop inches

Since the photo was taken with an 8MP camera, getting a professional quality 8x10" print from it shouldn't be a problem. Let's look at the pixel dimensions of this image so we can see exactly what size it is. I'm going to open Photoshop's Image Size dialog box by going up to the Image menu at the top of the s

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