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Creating more white space in a picture

February 19, 2009 · by Jan Schultink
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Many stock images lack sufficient white space for text. Stretching an image distorts the proportions.

A trick to get around this problem:

  1. Copy the image
  2. Crop a small strip at the top of the image
  3. Flip the strip
  4. Stretch the strip only

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4 comments

Freddie Daniells2009-02-19 22:40:00
Great tip - had never though of that but it is so obvious. Great site you have here. Enjoying it a lot. Keep up the good work.
Jan Schultink2009-02-20 06:12:00
Thank you for all the encouragement.

Brian, I know that short videos or example SlideShare presentations are a better way to bring out these tutorial posts, but the time to prepare them is an issue.

I hope that readers will post questions in the comments if they are not sure for example how to crop and flip images.
Brian2009-02-20 05:25:00
Great tip. I love "slide hacks" posts like this one and the one you did about filling auto-shapes with images. Keep them coming. In this case, I think a very short video would make this technique more clear.
marnix2009-02-20 07:55:00
great tips Jan,

many thanks

marnix