![]() With the vision of legacy support strategy and the delights of creative insights, my mission is to deliver a sophisticated next generation technology designed especially for the field of performing arts. I bring 20+ years of global broad-based arts consulting experience to the table to help clients break the cycle of choosing one-size-fits-none solutions and instead, deliver options allowing them to get ahead of the tech curve instead of trying to catch up by going slower. In addition to my consulting business, I'm also the Principal of Venture Industries Online but don’t let that title fool you into thinking I'm just a tech geek. *New to Smart Objects? No worries, they are easy to use and you’ll love them. Feel free to post questions in the comments. The template uses a landscape aspect ratio image at 1200 pixels wide by 628 pixels high, which is the current Facebook share image size, but you can tweak as desired. It is set to white (#FFFFFF) but you can unlock and adjust to any desired color. The Background Overlay layer is optional but if you’re using the opacity for the blurred background layer, it provides the ability to set a dark or light tone to the image.There’s a bonus layer to use for images that are square aspect ratio! Make that layer visible, hide the portrait layer, then add it using the exact same process as #2.Open it in a new tab, paste the image, size as desired, then save. The original image is also inserted using a Smart Object layer.The entire layer is set to 50% opacity, you can modify that as desired.The default setting uses a “soft light” blend mode and 100% opacity. The color overlay can be modified by double clicking the “Color Overlay” effect.You can edit the default setting for the blur effect by double clicking or right clicking the Gaussian Blur smart filter and selecting “edit.”. ![]() The background layer is set up as a Smart Object*, open it in a new tab and insert the portrait image then resize until it fills the full width.Today’s model is Taggart, who is on falcon-watch from his perch in my office. Here’s how you can use the free Photoshop template to start converting those portrait images. Apply blur and optional opacity and color overlays to the background layer.Use a copy of the source image as the background but enlarge it to cover the full width of the landscape layout.Insert the original portrait image into the center of the new landscape image.Fortunately, there is one option that can make life a bit easier: the enlarged blurred background from source approach. We’ve all been there: you need images in landscape aspect ratio for digital content but all of your source files are in portrait.įor the most part, trying to convert a portrait image to landscape involves some serious photo editing skills and you can simply forget it if the image includes too much background detail or the subject bleeds to either edge.
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