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A portrait is a painting, photo, or sculpture of a person. (usually just the head and shoulders) However there are paintings considered to be portraits that show you the full body. Portraits will also normally tell you something about the person, whether it be in the medium used, the body language of the person or an object in the picture

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Portrait orientation is about whether the portrait subject will be pictured the long way, like in the vertical position, or whether the subject will be shown with the canvas or paper in a horizontal position (the subject of the portrait won't necessarily by lying down, but just that the portrait surface would be in the horizontal position)

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Commonly, in computer printing, portrait orientationinfers that the left side of the printed page is 11-1/2 inches long. It's opposite is landscape orientation, which infers that the left side of the page is 8-1/2 inches long.

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Landscape means orientating the canvas so it is wider than it is tall. Portrait means orientating the canvas so it is taller than it is wide.

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Portrait view is generally used to refer to a rectangular shape that is taller than it is wide. Landscape view is referring to a rectangle that is wider than it is tall.

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