Resizing to enlarge your subject

Ok. So I took a picture for my wife's sister's church group. I will spare the details.....it's a large group in front of the church on the steps.
My wife wants the people more visible and closer up....I tried, failed. Well, I failed to keep it a common print size that does not need a custom frame made.
What is the best way to crop an image and then have it "resized" or more visible, closer looking?
I am somewhat familiar w/ CS5. ty!

In CS5, use the crop tool. Set the width and height to the print size you are looking to output. Set the DPI to 300 (good for print) and crop out the area you want to print.

1000arms wrote in post #12430034
You can add canvas to your cropped image to make it a standard print size.

i think this is what I have run into.........how do add canvas exactly>?

Image -> Canvas Size

Bill, I think you make this issue out to be more complex than it truly is!

Let us assume your camera is a 50D with 4752x3168 pixels, and let us also assume that the group fits within about 3000 pixels of the 4752, and you want to print at 8x10 final size. Using the crop tool, simply crop off about 1600 pixels off the long dimension leaving 3152 pixels, and the cropping tool maintains the aspect ratio for 8x10 and trims the short dimension to 2522 pixels...3152x2522 crop prints perfectly to 8x10

The pixel count does not matter per se, as we have different model dSLRs with each having a different pixel count, and they all print nicely to both 4x6 and 8x12, straight out of the camera with no alterations to anything. If we want 8x10 instead, we simply need to alter the aspect ratio of the height:width dimensions suitably., using the cropping tool.

Set the width, height, and resolution to whatever print size you want, and then it will constrain the crop proportions to those dimensions no matter how much of the image you are cropping.
FYI, the picture dimensions out of the camera should already be equivalent to 6x4 or 12x8 print size. You should only need to click the "Front Image" Button and it will constrain the crop proportions to those dimensions.

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