How to Stretch a Picture With Photoshop

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"Adobe Photoshop is a registered trademark of Adobe systems incorporated. I'm in no way affiliated with Adobe. Hi I'm Steve Anthony, I'm a photographer and digital retouching artist here in New York City. In this clip we are going to talk about how to stretch a picture in photoshop. There are a couple of ways to make your picture larger. The simplest way is to go into your image fly out, select image size and enter the dimensions of the size that you like the picture to be. Lets say you'd like it to be twelve eighty by eight hundred. Enter those numbers and the picture will magically be transformed to that size. Now the risk that you run when you use that method, make it a hundred percent size again. Is that you when you take a small image and make it larger in Photoshop you can run the risk of adding digital information, pixelization that you don't want. The best way to avoid that is to incrementally increase the size of your image. And what I mean by that is that you simply take, you change, you go into the image size fly out, instead of using pixels use a percent. And change the percent to a hundred and ten percent and if you select constrain an image, constrain proportions then you only need to do it to one box and it will automatically do it to the other one. Then select ok. And your picture is now then percent larger but for some reason we still don't know why frankly but this is a little trick that photoshop power users have discovered over the years. But now you've made the picture ten percent larger and have not introduced any pixelization or any digital artifacts. In fact you can keep doing this as many times as you need to until the picture is the size that you want it to be. And you will not be distorting any of the pixels. Those are two ways to do it. There is yet another way, go to image. I'm sorry go to select all, edit cut, edit paste, the image will now be, I'm going to shrink it on the screen just so, zoom out so you can see what I'm doing. Now it's been pasted as a new layer, you can go to transform, scale, hold down the shift key to keep it relative to itself and stretch the size of the picture. This way you can isolate a certain portion of the picture, it's really cropping I suppose, but maintaining the exact size of your you know your canvas size. Hit enter when you've done what you wanted to do. That can be a risky method because it can also add some, some digital artifacts and some pixelation. But it's an option. This is Steve Anthony and this has been how to stretch a picture in Photoshop."