How do you resize a shot to make it fully fit the thumbnail?
I normally resize to 1500 across or 2000, just depends on what gets it below 3mb but it doesn't fit the thumbnail obviously.
I've seen people resizing images to fit a thumbnail fully so know it can be done but I'm missing it somehow.
Can someone explain really simply how to make an image completely fit a thumbnail. Thanks :)
The optimum full image size on PP is 1080 pixels wide and whatever then follows in your resizing software to maintain the image's ratio vertically... It -the vertical- can be anything you like (AFAIK).
Thumbnails on PP must be square, so unless your full image is also square you'll not be able to crop your thumbnail to show the full image.
1. The thumbnails are square, so to make them fit exactly the image must also be square, otherwise, you need to crop it to the way you prefer in the thumbnail edit process.
Or
2. You need an editing program that can crop the image square.
As said above, to fit a square thumbnail the original image also needs to be square, but is that actually what you meant? Are you talking about a thumbnail that's a zoomed in part of the original image?
If you really want to make an image fully fit a Pp thumbnail you have to make it square.
Most images start life as rectangles, either in portrait or landscape orientation. To make them square you have to change the shape. Which will either involve cropping top/bottom or sides (depending whether it's portrait or landscape originally), from a rectangular image, or adding blank areas to the top /bottom or sides. It's not difficult to do in something like Photoshop.
But I wonder if it's what you mean?
When I post something once I've uploaded the (rectangular) image I slide the little 'walking ants' square frame within the rectangular boundaries of the original image. Which gives me the best (well best IMO) square window within my original image shape.
I think of resizing as something completely different to changing the shape. In terms of your 3Mb target, I suspect that you'd be best off going for 1080 wide instead of tweaking the dimensions so the upload is ♥Mb. I think at 1080 width, the site says it doesn't change the image quality on display, whereas any other width will be modified by the output process (someone might want to comment as to whether what I'm saying here is accurate)
Image needs to be 1080 square as maximum dimension or any lesser providing it's square. Alternatively shoot how you like and use thumbnail crop to provide desired effect, though once clicked the full image will be revealed. Which ever method you choose it's always better to resize any upload first to 1080 width, whether square, landscape or portrait orientation. It will be well below 3mb.
ADWsPhotos said
If you really want to make an image fully fit a Pp thumbnail you have to make it square.
Most images start life as rectangles, either in portrait or landscape orientation. To make them square you have to change the shape. Which will either involve cropping top/bottom or sides (depending whether it's portrait or landscape originally), from a rectangular image, or adding blank areas to the top /bottom or sides. It's not difficult to do in something like Photoshop.
But I wonder if it's what you mean?
When I post something once I've uploaded the (rectangular) image I slide the little 'walking ants' square frame within the rectangular boundaries of the original image. Which gives me the best (well best IMO) square window within my original image shape.
I think of resizing as something completely different to changing the shape. In terms of your 3Mb target, I suspect that you'd be best off going for 1080 wide instead of tweaking the dimensions so the upload is ♥Mb. I think at 1080 width, the site says it doesn't change the image quality on display, whereas any other width will be modified by the output process (someone might want to comment as to whether what I'm saying here is accurate)
That's entirely correct. There's no way you can hit the 3MB limit in my experience, my JPGs are less than 500kB.