Tiny Faces of Fun

TagFest: Photoshop

Today my co-worker David came to me with an unusual personal request. He and a friend were working on a baby shower gift for his niece—a puzzle with pieces large enough to fit 1.5" diameter photos of the new baby's relatives. Some of the photos that David had were suitable but in others the faces were too large so he asked me help him re-size them so he could send them to his friend. At first I thought he needed me to scan the photos but luckily he had them all on a CD so I could just work electronically in Photoshop.

First, I had to determine at what size he would need to print out the photos at Walgreen's. We decided to do 4x6 prints at 256 dpi (that just happened to be what the first file was set at so we settled on that). I set each file to that resolution then gradually reduced the pixels until a 1.5" diameter circle fit snugly around the face. I then changed the canvas size to 4x6 which created a white border around the original photo. We burned them onto a new CD that he can take to get the prints to mail to his friend who's making the puzzle.

I sure hope they turned out okay. David told me he'd give me a photo of the final product.