Photoshop Tutorial: Cinematic Widescreen Cropping

In this tutorial I show you how to create a cinematic looking image by cropping your image to a cinemascope 2.35:1 aspect ratio commonly used by filmmakers. Not only that but I show you how to add the black bars for the letterbox effect and how you can make them the correct size so the whole image fits within the standard widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio, the standard for High Definition TV. So this tutorial will give you the most cinematic looking image.

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Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• cinemascope
• widescreen
• photoshop tutorial
• cropping
• letterbox
• cinematic
• CS5
• brodie butler

[blkguyjusttryn]

Excellent!

[cmedip]

Oh My God Thank You!!!!!!!!

[GulfCoastGirl5]

Excellent step by step instruction!  Thumbs way up :)

[NIKONGUY1960]

Great work. Thanks for taking the time to show exactly how to do this and not that speed through, kids on crack version.

Thanks, Mate!

[RobotSlaughterhouse]

Amazing tutorial:) Great quality, nice loud voice! Straight to the point! Great job! and Thanks!

[coffee82]

Nice tutorial Brodie! It always helps when you have a beautiful image to start with  ;)