I have a photo that I have cropped with a custom crop ratio that happens to be ever so slightly wider than it is tall (so landscape). I would like to use the framing module to pad this into a portrait-format photo that is 5:4. I can pad it up to square, but can’t figure out any way to get an aspect ratio of below 1. If I right-click and type 0.8, it goes to 1.0. If I right-click and type “5:4” or “4:5” they both turn into 1.25, which is a bit frustrating. Note I tried clicking the circular arrow in the crop module, but this didn’t do anything because I have a custom crop.
Is there any way for me to get a 5:4 framing ratio in my case? Thanks.
Am I missing something here? 5:4 is a standard ratio offered. 1:1 is square and if you want a rectangle you need greater than 1 so 0.8 just won’t work.
I feel really stupid. Yes, that works. It was on orientation auto, and I guess this was tied to the input image, so kept converting 4:5 to 5:4 to 1.25. When I set it to portrait as you suggest, it swapped things around so 4:5 and 5:4 were still converted to 1.25, but now obviously in portrait mode.
Thanks for your response. I misunderstood the problem at 5am in the morning. But realizing now what I can do with the framing module when preparing for printing I have included the framing module in my list of modules to work with. It could prove useful.
EDIT: I just explored the watermark module which I have never looked at before and combined with the framing module brings up some nice ways of not only framing an image but also including an artistic caption. I had always done this sort of stuff in GIMP before after editing in DT. This thread has been very helpful to me.
Of course, you can also simply change the orientation of the frame…