If you see the Elliptical Marquee Tool instead, press Shift-M to cycle to the Rectangular Marquee Tool. Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool from the Tool Bar or use the keyboard shortcut M. Now that the Photoshop document is ready, it’s time to get down to the actual work of expanding the background. When you’ve got everything looking good, press Enter. Make any other adjustments to the crop you want, like straightening the image as I’ve done. To extend it, all you need to do is grab one of the handles on the side and drag it out past the edge of the image.Īdjust the crop by clicking any where inside the crop area and dragging so that the image is roughly centered. Make sure the 3 comes first otherwise you’ll end up with a portrait crop.īy default, Photoshop will keep the crop area confined to your image like it is below. If you haven’t used it before, check out our in-depth article on it.

Grab the Crop Tool from the Tool Bar or press C on your keyboard. This is also the time to straighten the image if it’s crooked like this one is. The first thing you’ll want to do is to re-crop it so it’s in the right aspect ratio. Open the image you’re using in Photoshop. We also have an eight part guide to Photoshop for beginners. If you haven’t checked out our article on Photoshop Layers, you should do so before continuing. We’re going to take this portrait image from the dance troupe H.E.L.L’s show, the others are hell also, and turn it into a landscape image, since it has a relatively plain back and grey background.Īs always, the more familiar you are with Photoshop’s tools, the easier you will find this article to follow along. Find your printer in the Devices and Printers window and right-click the icon with your mouse. Open the Control Panel and then the Devices and Printers option. Access the printer settings by following the steps below. You can also change the between Landscape and Portrait mode within the printer settings. It also won’t work if the subject is cut off by the edges of the image.Ĭhange mode in printer settings. If there’s anything too complex or recognizable in the background, then this technique will cause more problems than are easily fixable.

It works best where the background is reasonably plain or abstract. This trick is quick and easy, but it’s not perfect. Let’s look at my favorite technique to do it.

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