Converting Landscape to Portrait orientation

Fred Kingston

Senior Member
In post processing... I have images in 'normal' orientation... I'd guess you could call it 'landscape' orientation. The result of viewing/taking the image with the camera in normal viewing position.

If I constrain cropping to a 4"X6" aspect... I'd like to change the orientation to 'portrait'... actually a 6"X4" orientation..

Of course, it won't work because there are no pixels on the top/bottom...

Is there a way to change the orientation by re-sampling or something????

I'm using LR/PS...

Of course, the correct thing to do would have been to change the orientation of the camera when the image was created...but that didn't happen...
 

Eyelight

Senior Member
Can you post an example photo?

Using PS change the canvas size and add canvas either top, bottom or both and then merge more photo into the empty canvas.

You would need to have something to fill the top and/or bottom where the empty canvas is created.
 

Fred Kingston

Senior Member
lillybwsepia.jpg


This would be the original layout....

lily.jpg

And this would be cropped photo... which I just realized is not a good example because there's not black frame to illustrate the borders
 

STM

Senior Member
I don't mean to be sounding overly simplistic, but why not just take the image with the camera held vertically?
 

Fred Kingston

Senior Member
Yes... I acknowledged that as the simple way... Unfortunately, the image is as it exists...the flower is now dead... Just trying to salvage what I have to meet a specific framing request...
 

Eyelight

Senior Member
Let me know if you prefer this not stay in the thread and I will remove, but something like this. Not as clean as it could be, but just a trial example.

- cropped off the border
- added canvas top and bottom
- sampled the black and filled the bottom canavs
- used the clone tool to extend the flower stem down and the back material along the folds
- cropped it to 4 x 6
- added the copyright in white just so it would be there

lillybwsepia_Eye.jpg
 

Blacktop

Senior Member
Let me know if you prefer this not stay in the thread and I will remove, but something like this. Not as clean as it could be, but just a trial example.

- cropped off the border
- added canvas top and bottom
- sampled the black and filled the bottom canavs
- used the clone tool to extend the flower stem down and the back material along the folds
- cropped it to 4 x 6
- added the copyright in white just so it would be there

View attachment 98245

That looks fantastic.
 

WayneF

Senior Member
In post processing... I have images in 'normal' orientation... I'd guess you could call it 'landscape' orientation. The result of viewing/taking the image with the camera in normal viewing position.

If I constrain cropping to a 4"X6" aspect... I'd like to change the orientation to 'portrait'... actually a 6"X4" orientation..

Of course, it won't work because there are no pixels on the top/bottom...

Is there a way to change the orientation by re-sampling or something????

I'm using LR/PS...

Of course, the correct thing to do would have been to change the orientation of the camera when the image was created...but that didn't happen...



I take it you specifically do not want to rotate the image? But instead actually prefer to crop the image, and fill in the missing part?

Otherwise...

I don't know what menus Lightroom offers, maybe that is the issue? But in a general editor, such as Photoshop...

Just simply rotate image 90 degrees, CW or CCW as applicable. PS menu Image - Image Rotation. This does not crop though, it simply rotates.

If printing, just specify Portrait or Landscape as applicable in print driver properties. This rotates it (usual reason is to fit landscape on the portrait paper).

If a JPG file that you want to correct orientation, free programs like Irfanview offers lossless rotation (does not do JPG compression again, so it does not add more JPG artifacts).
 
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