I need to find a simple way to adjust the aspect ratio of images that are submitted to my company's website. The design of the site is pretty punishing to any images that are not in 16:9. I just use the Photoshop crop tool to do this, but most other users either don't have a key or wouldn't know how to do this. I need to find a simple way to teach to users how to do this.
Can anyone recommend an alternative to Photoshop that has the ability to add margins to achieve a 16:9 aspect ratio?
If someone does not have Photoshop you can simply download https://www.gimp.org/ or http://www.getpaint.net/index.html which are free.
If someone does not how to do it, you have two options. They should not do it or learn how to do it.
Let us asume there are a ton of images to crop. In this case efficient is not the same as right.
Why? Because sometimes you need to make a decision on what part you need to crop, you need to refame.
But if you need to do that on a thousand images and you do not care much about the framing, you can use another free program like IrfanView and use the batch option. http://www.irfanview.com/
File > Batch conversion rename > Advanced > Crop.
But beware! If you do not know how to use it you can simply scr** a thousand images at the same time! Work on a copy of the images on a new folder.
One aditional thing. You are worried about the aspect ratio, but it is more important the size, so ask what size and compression the site will need.
