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Horizontal and vertical images

Horizontal and vertical images - Photoshop Tutorial

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Horizontal and vertical images

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- [Instructor] There's another factor, in addition to aspect ratio, that you really want to consider, especially as a photographer looking to make sales, and that's the horizontal or vertical orientation. Sometimes we get attached in the field, we tend to shoot more verticals or more horizontals. There's usually a style associated with a photographer. But consciously, I really encourage you to photograph subjects both ways. Now, we're looking here, this is an image I took recently of the EMP in Seattle, a Frank Gehry building, and this is a horizontal, right? So if I were to print this, I can do, for example, a 20 by 30, it'd be 30 inches across and 20 inches tall, right? So this is, this would really fill a space, let's say over a couch. Now, let's move on to this image which is a vertical. It's a very similar image, some of the elements of the building are the same in both, certainly a different feel to this, and this has height to it. So I could a 20 by 30 where it's 30 inches tall…

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