Picture squished.

Hi Guys, this is my first post on the forum. Can you give me a heads-up on this? Keep it simple.
If I save a JPG 5" x 8" book cover Photo from PHOTOS after making minor adjustments in EDIT and save to pictures, the picture saved appears as if in vertical format (squished) and not in horizontal format 5" x 8". If I want to transfer the said squished picture, sometimes it opens out to the correct horizontal format, sometimes not. Grrrrr! Any ideas?
Ideally I would like to save the edited picture to PDF but PHOTOS does not give that option.

Hello Stuzapem,

Welcome to the Forum!

I agree that PHOTOS does not provide a choice to export a picture into PDF format.

After successfully editing a picture in PHOTOS, I opened the result in Affinity Photo where I could export to PDF.

Looks to me like you may need an additional piece of software to accomplish your goal.

Perhaps someone else on this forum with more experience will chime in with another idea or process that will work.

Just a bit more info. I opened my book template in GIMP (good idea) using the Export As and used Select File Type (By extension) and chose PDF. It was saved in Pictures, and still, I found my book cover squished. Any ideas?

Hmm... Okay, you refer to the image as a. jpg file, however, how was it created?
Is it possible that there is some form of embedded format that is affecting the aspect ratio when the file is opened? (even in GIMP)

Hi Telepro21,
Thanks for getting back to me. The book cover was initially put together professionally and sent to me in PDF form. Much later and because of circumstances I needed to make minor adjustments to the cover (enhance and sharpen etc) and so imported it into GIMP as a PNG file. So far, so good until I came to EXPORT AS PDF. When I checked it out in pictures, it came out squished. All of the book cover originally in horizontal form turned out vertical. I am beginning to think you are right with your comment (Is it possible that there is some form of embedded format that is affecting the aspect ratio when the file is opened?) However, I am not clever enough to work that one out. Hey Ho.
I would have posted an image of the problem, but I thought it might be construed as advertising.