From vertical to horizontal?

[ChrisJN]

First, pardon my English, not my first language...

I got a problem with some photos I have been taken. There is this webpage in my country who is having a photo-competition. And I feel I have a good chance to win... all the photos are taken with an iphone 3Gs, and they still look, if I should say it myself, superb. Problem is that this webpage for some reason can't show photos which are not taken horizontal... this is really frustrating.

So my question is if there is a program out there I can use to turn my vertical pictures horizontal without cutting the picture too much?

I have an older iMac with iphoto 09

Thanks

Chris

 

[Meister]

You can rotate photos in preview.

 

[ChrisJN]

You can rotate photos in preview.

If I open a picture in iphoto and rotate it, the people on the photo will rotate with it ofcause.. and that is a no go. I need to somehow... turn it horizontal without the picture itself rotate

 

[Meister]

If I open a picture in iphoto and rotate it, the people on the photo will rotate with it ofcause.. and that is a no go. I need to somehow... turn it horizontal without the picture itself rotate

Then you will just have to crop it.

 

[ChrisJN]

Then you will just have to crop it.

Thanks. Just too bad I can't do much more about it... the best it can do is a 4x6, and then I lose most of the idea with the photo since it's taken pretty "up close". Any way I can zoom out and to get more of the picture?

 

[ChrisA]

.... is if there is a program out there I can use to turn my vertical pictures horizontal without cutting the picture too much?

I have an older iMac with iPhoto 09 ..

You have answered your own question. iPhoto will do this as well as any other.

The problem is one of logic and geometry. Assuming the image has been rotated so that "up is up" then the only way to make a vertical image horizontal is to crop (cut) it. The minimum crop would be to make it square.

Is square acceptable? If not check "unconstrained" in iPhoto and make it 10x9 or something.

 

[Meister]

The problem is one of logic and geometry.

These were the words I was looking for when I first read this post.

 

[mgipe]

How about letter boxing it? Increase the canvas size -- widen it so that you have a pleasing proportion, and fill the blank space on the side with an appropriate color. Or leave the sides transparent to let the web page background show through.

 

[mtbdudex]

How about letter boxing it? Increase the canvas size -- widen it so that you have a pleasing proportion, and fill the blank space on the side with an appropriate color. Or leave the sides transparent to let the web page background show through.

+1 I was going to post exactly this, seems your best option

 

[Meister]

How about letter boxing it? Increase the canvas size -- widen it so that you have a pleasing proportion, and fill the blank space on the side with an appropriate color. Or leave the sides transparent to let the web page background show through.

good idea! Why didnt I think of this.

 

[Mike4AU]

Find someone who has Photoshop CC or 2014 and ask them to use Content Aware Scale. That will do an excellent job of changing portrait mode to landscape mode.

Good luck.

Mike