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If you want full control over the way your portrait-oriented photos are shown in your digital story, here are the steps I use when explaining cropping and showing them.<\/p>\n<p>In Photoshop&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>change background colour to Black (usually)<\/li>\n<li>Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool. When you click and drag out, you&#8217;ll notice the &#8216;marching ants&#8217; around your selection<\/li>\n<li>On the top Menu bar: Edit &gt; Copy<\/li>\n<li>Menu: File &gt; New &gt; Background colour (black)<\/li>\n<li>Menu: Edit &gt; Paste<\/li>\n<li>If you need to rotate your photo. Menu: Image &gt; Rotate Canvas &gt; Arbitrary<\/li>\n<li>Image &gt; Image Size &gt; Res=150 &gt; Height=576 (Constrain proportions)<\/li>\n<li>Image &gt; Canvas Size &gt; 768&#215;576<\/li>\n<li>Adjust levels and Sharpness<\/li>\n<li>Save as .tif.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I learned this back in 2001 from Joe Lambert, Nina Mullen and Daniel Meadows.\u00a0 By the way, while we&#8217;re on the subject of images, have a look at these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/wales\/audiovideo\/sites\/about\/pages\/photos.shtml\">ace photography tips by Carwyn Evans<\/a> on the Capture Wales site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showing landscape-oriented photos and still images in your digital story is straightforward. You just crop, constraining dimensions to 768 x 576 pixels, or whichever dimensions you use. But how do you crop and display portrait-oriented images in your story? 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