Change Pic from Portrait To Landscape 22 November 2022 at 6:38PM in Techie Stuff 9 replies 175 views

atlantis187

How do I change a portrait pic from portrait to landscape, I've tried a few things and all they do is flip the picture I need the actual pic changing to landscape mode.

flaneurs_lobster

Do you mean portrait mode for printing? Just change the printer settings in print preview.

If you mean editing the picture then you are limited by the original picture dimensions. You could crop it at the top and/or bottom to landscape proportions but that is likely to crop some of the portrait subject. 

What exactly are you trying to do with the image?

googler

You can either crop out top and bottom, or stretch the picture. Either way you lose something.

Neil_Jones

atlantis187 said:

How do I change a portrait pic from portrait to landscape, I've tried a few things and all they do is flip the picture I need the actual pic changing to landscape mode.

Well "flipping" is typically how it works..

You should be able to rotate the image as a whole, not just the picture bit.

If you just rotate the picture bit it will chop off a portion of the picture.

As above, if you're printing just print it and you'll have to physically rotate it yourself.

What are you trying to do exactly?

outtatune

If you mean that the image has the 'wrong' dimensions so it opens on its side, and want to permanently transpose the entire image, try Irfanview

https://www.irfanview.com/

If you open it in that, rotate it using the option in the image menu, then save as, it will save with the new rotation.

atlantis187

I have some jpg movie covers (artwork) which i'm going to attach to the mp4's to play on the firestick using mx player they only display landscape mode, so I need to change the picture from portrait to landscape. 

outtatune

You still haven't really explained what you want.

There is no such thing as 'landscape mode'. An image is either landscape or it's portrait. Is the image displaying the correct way up, but because it's portrait you're missing the tops, or have black bands to the side? Or is the image displaying on its side?

km1500

 The are two ways to change a picture from portrait to landscape:

1. rotate it 90 deg. Thus if the portrait picture is of a man standing up you will have a landscape picture of the man left to right lying down.

2. if you want the man to remain standing up then crop his legs off and head off until the picture measures landscape, or keep the whole man standing up and add filler each side until landscape mode is obtained.

Which method do you want?

atlantis187

method 2 
is there any software I can use to do this?

Neil_Jones

atlantis187 said:

method 2 
is there any software I can use to do this?

Any image editing software will let you chop somebody's legs off.  Even Paint which is part of Windows can do that.

All you're doing is just cropping the picture.