Editing my own wedding photos and need help!

Hello everyone,

I hope this is allowed to post here. I have been working on my own wedding photos and album for some time (we were married over 2 years ago). Long story short, my photographer was a drag and I ended up making my own album and editing my own photos. I'm now minutes away from ordering all of my photos and when they come in, I'll add them to my album and the saga will be complete.

I'm new to photoshop, so leave it to me to make a bonehead move like the one I did...

I NEED the following photo to be edited to fix a 5x5 slot:

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You can't do 5x5. I tried a 4x5 and it worked. Will that work for you?

I can send it to you as a 5x7....

About the only thing I can think of is to crop it in a square 5x5 size and then vignette it severely (let me know if you need more help on how to do this):

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Did the original photographer grant you the copyrights?

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #6223586
Did the original photographer grant you the copyrights?

yeah,,, thats a good point... maybe a little bit of pp befoer you print it too.. could use just a little..

benny

Hi, is this the kinfd of thing you mean? I copied your brothers-in-law to a new layer then moved them in closer, then gave it a square crop. This is just a very rough go taking me no more than 5 minutes, if iot is what you want I can have a better go at it, but i will need a better source image to start with idealy - do you have the RAW?

Thank you to everyone who responded! I was lucky to have found a verticle image of the same photo, so that crisis was avoided! :P

However, I am having issues with this photo:

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jgrussell wrote in post #6223557
About the only thing I can think of is to crop it in a square 5x5 size and then vignette it severely (let me know if you need more help on how to do this):

Can I ask how you did this? Is it something I can apply to my wedding cake photo (included in this thread)?

You might try this...first straighten the picture so the cake doesn't lean so much, add a few pixel-wide stroke, probably black, then paste the image into a new square image file with a white or ivory background. It looks fine this way, kind of like a matted version of what you have.

Kind of like this...

EmmyLou wrote in post #6237308
Can I ask how you did this? Is it something I can apply to my wedding cake photo (included in this thread)?

Yes and yes (see below). The directions for the cake are:

1. Use Image -> Rotate Canvas to straighten the cake to a vertical orientation. I used Arbitrary, 3.05, CCW.

2. Use Image -> Image Size to resize the image to the size you need in the largest of its dimensions (here 5" in height). Make sure to constrain proportions.

3. Use Image -> Canvas Size to add enough black border so that the entire image is now the size you need (5x5"). Make sure you do NOT constrain proportions (you're making the image square now).

4. Use the Marquee Selection tool and change it (right click) to Elliptical. Change the feathering (at the top) to 10-25px (I used 25 for the cake). Using trial and error, select that portion of the image that you want to remain.

5. Using Select -> Inverse, invert the selection.

6. Now use your DELETE key and delete everything except the section you want to remain. You will get the vignetting around the section you chose as shown below.

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I know that's what they asked for, but ugh that wedding cake looks awful with that black vignette.

I'd try a white fadeout instead. The black makes it look depressing or like you're looking through a keyhole at it.

lulugus wrote in post #6248632
I know that's what they asked for, but ugh that wedding cake looks awful with that black vignette.

I'd try a white fadeout instead. The black makes it look depressing or like you're looking through a keyhole at it.

Do you know how I could do that?

Pretty much the same directions as above, except with white as your foreground color instead of black.