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how do you resize photos
Cassie wrote:
Hi' all. Could someone please tell me how to resize photographs. My friend was sent a few photos via email and they are all large raging from 576KB & some a bit smaller but not much, and she asked me how to resize them. I'm not very familiar with photos and I have only enlarged them in the past I think, it's been a while since I did it. Also I am not very computer savvy just know a little bit more than my friend. She didn't have any software so I downloaded "Irfanview" on her computer and she wanted 6x4 inches but no matter what I did I couldn't get 6x4inches it kept jumping back to a different number, I managed to get 7x5 but not sure how I did it now. My friend has the starter program of Adobe photo shop and found 6x4 but it would not print on her Hewlett Packard. I had a practise on my computer with Grandview as I have a photo in my pictures that is 576KB but I don't understand the pixel measurements which is 1188x1848 for that size. I either ended up with a tiny photo or a large one. I have Canon software as well but again the pixels and cm have me confused, not sure what the equivalent is and even if I did it jumps back to what it wants. I would appreciate any advice and sorry to sound so dumb. Regards, Cassie Just Google for jpg resizer.exe aand let this little program do it for you. |
how do you resize photos
"ASAAR" wrote in message
... On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:29:24 GMT, Roy G wrote: I took the question to be more about how to get the pictures properly printed on 4" x 6" paper than to actually do image resizing. And so . . . When you select File - Print from IrfanView's menu, you get a Print Preview window that allows you to specify the print size without making any changes to the image file. Set the "Units" to cm or inches, then select the Custom radio button. Make sure that the Aspect Ratio box is checked, and then play with values for Width and Height or the image might undergo some bizarre stretching. Beneath the preview window IrfanView shows the "Resulting image size on paper" in both cm and inches. Unless the image size already has a 4x6 aspect ratio you'll either have uneven white margins or no margins, but with some truncation of the image. It's probably easier to work with copies of the images, where you'd be free to crop, rotate, spindle and mutilate. :) Hi. I have never really used Irfanview for anything other than Batch renaming, and have not done that for ages, so I was not aware just how comprehensive its printing Dialogue was. I was, and still am a little concerned that the image will have been compressed and saved several times and could be on the verge of showing Jpeg Artifacts, hence my attempt at getting the poster to change physical dimensions via PPI, rather than Interpolate. But I think you have certainly solved her problem, with your very precise instructions. Roy G |
how do you resize photos
Cassie wrote: Hi' all. Could someone please tell me how to resize photographs. My friend was sent a few photos via email and they are all large raging from 576KB & some a bit smaller but not much, and she asked me how to resize them. I'm not very familiar with photos and I have only enlarged them in the past I think, it's been a while since I did it. Also I am not very computer savvy just know a little bit more than my friend. She didn't have any software so I downloaded "Irfanview" on her computer and she wanted 6x4 inches but no matter what I did I couldn't get 6x4inches it kept jumping back to a different number, I managed to get 7x5 but not sure how I did it now. My friend has the starter program of Adobe photo shop and found 6x4 but it would not print on her Hewlett Packard. I had a practise on my computer with Grandview as I have a photo in my pictures that is 576KB but I don't understand the pixel measurements which is 1188x1848 for that size. I either ended up with a tiny photo or a large one. I have Canon software as well but again the pixels and cm have me confused, not sure what the equivalent is and even if I did it jumps back to what it wants. I would appreciate any advice and sorry to sound so dumb. Regards, This is indeed one of the more complicated issues in digital photography. The problem is that there are three common definitions of 'size' in digital photography. The first is file size- the number of bits required to store the image. I don't think this is that important to you in your present problem. Second, the size in pixels is important. All popular image formats use a rectangular grid of pixels, so many columns wide by so many rows high. Thus a 640 x 480 image has 640 columns by 480 rows of pixels. Third there is the 'physical size' when an image is PRINTED. Relating these second and third definitions is the parameter of pixels per inch. If we had a 600 pixel by 400 pixel image and printed it as a 6 x 4 inch print, that would be 100 pixels per inch. Note that the physical size AND the ppi only have meaning when we are printing the image. Most good photo editors allow you to change physical size (in preparation for printing), the ppi, and the total number of pixels. Which type of 'resize' you want to do when is indeed something you have to learn to do. If you have the manual for whatever editing software you are using, read/study carefully all information on resizing. Cassie |
how do you resize photos
Since the operative word is photos, plural. Consider batch processing.
Whether you are using Arc Soft, or as I have used in the past Thumbs Plus, or as I am using now Roxio Easy Media Creator, batch processing will take a stack of files and convert them simutaneously. My wife uses Arc Soft which came with her Canon camera. She has her camera set to the highest resolution for archival purposes, but when she wanted to e-mail me a stack of files of our grandson at the aquarium, the file sizes were too large for my mailbox. Now she can batch process the entire folder of files and reduce the entire folder of files to 640 pixels by 480 pixels store them in a seperate file and retain her high resolution originals, send a whole mess of pictures of our grandchildren and everybody's happy. Converting a 4:3 aspect ratio image to a 2:3 aspect ratio 4" X 6" print requires cropping the top and/or the bottom. Unclicking your maintain proportions button (not recommended) results in disproportionate subjects. Circles becomes elongated elipses, squares become rectangles and your mother-in-laws tush becomes as wide as house, which you may or may not be able to use to your advantage. Another quick way to print, if you are using Windows XP, is to right click on the file and click print. Cassie wrote: Hi' all. Could someone please tell me how to resize photographs. My friend was sent a few photos via email and they are all large raging from 576KB & some a bit smaller but not much, and she asked me how to resize them. I'm not very familiar with photos and I have only enlarged them in the past I think, it's been a while since I did it. Also I am not very computer savvy just know a little bit more than my friend. She didn't have any software so I downloaded "Irfanview" on her computer and she wanted 6x4 inches but no matter what I did I couldn't get 6x4inches it kept jumping back to a different number, I managed to get 7x5 but not sure how I did it now. My friend has the starter program of Adobe photo shop and found 6x4 but it would not print on her Hewlett Packard. I had a practise on my computer with Grandview as I have a photo in my pictures that is 576KB but I don't understand the pixel measurements which is 1188x1848 for that size. I either ended up with a tiny photo or a large one. I have Canon software as well but again the pixels and cm have me confused, not sure what the equivalent is and even if I did it jumps back to what it wants. I would appreciate any advice and sorry to sound so dumb. Regards, Cassie |
how do you resize photos
Hi' Everyone,
Goodness me you have all given me so much information, thank you very very much. I have to print some of it out to sink in as I am new to all this technical stuff with photos (computers too for that matter). I will download that little jpeg resize.exe program and also thank you for telling me that I can put Arc Soft on my friends computer because I found a photo on my computer that is the same size as one of my friends grandchildren and just clicked print without resizing and it printed 6 x 4. However, things that work on my computer don't always work on hers for some reason. We are both fairly new to computers but I'm the one that has to ask the questions. I really appreciate all you time. Regards, Cassie. "silverthreads" wrote in message oups.com... Since the operative word is photos, plural. Consider batch processing. Whether you are using Arc Soft, or as I have used in the past Thumbs Plus, or as I am using now Roxio Easy Media Creator, batch processing will take a stack of files and convert them simutaneously. My wife uses Arc Soft which came with her Canon camera. She has her camera set to the highest resolution for archival purposes, but when she wanted to e-mail me a stack of files of our grandson at the aquarium, the file sizes were too large for my mailbox. Now she can batch process the entire folder of files and reduce the entire folder of files to 640 pixels by 480 pixels store them in a seperate file and retain her high resolution originals, send a whole mess of pictures of our grandchildren and everybody's happy. Converting a 4:3 aspect ratio image to a 2:3 aspect ratio 4" X 6" print requires cropping the top and/or the bottom. Unclicking your maintain proportions button (not recommended) results in disproportionate subjects. Circles becomes elongated elipses, squares become rectangles and your mother-in-laws tush becomes as wide as house, which you may or may not be able to use to your advantage. Another quick way to print, if you are using Windows XP, is to right click on the file and click print. Cassie wrote: Hi' all. Could someone please tell me how to resize photographs. My friend was sent a few photos via email and they are all large raging from 576KB & some a bit smaller but not much, and she asked me how to resize them. I'm not very familiar with photos and I have only enlarged them in the past I think, it's been a while since I did it. Also I am not very computer savvy just know a little bit more than my friend. She didn't have any software so I downloaded "Irfanview" on her computer and she wanted 6x4 inches but no matter what I did I couldn't get 6x4inches it kept jumping back to a different number, I managed to get 7x5 but not sure how I did it now. My friend has the starter program of Adobe photo shop and found 6x4 but it would not print on her Hewlett Packard. I had a practise on my computer with Grandview as I have a photo in my pictures that is 576KB but I don't understand the pixel measurements which is 1188x1848 for that size. I either ended up with a tiny photo or a large one. I have Canon software as well but again the pixels and cm have me confused, not sure what the equivalent is and even if I did it jumps back to what it wants. I would appreciate any advice and sorry to sound so dumb. Regards, Cassie |
how do you resize photos
In article , "Cassie" wrote:
Hi' all. Could someone please tell me how to resize photographs. My friend was sent a few photos via email and they are all large raging from 576KB & some a bit smaller but not much, and she asked me how to resize them. I'm not very familiar with photos and I have only enlarged them in the past I think, it's been a while since I did it. Also I am not very computer savvy just know a little bit more than my friend. She didn't have any software so I downloaded "Irfanview" on her computer and she wanted 6x4 inches but no matter what I did I couldn't get 6x4inches it kept jumping back to a different number, I managed to get 7x5 but not sure how I did it now. My friend has the starter program of Adobe photo shop and found 6x4 but it would not print on her Hewlett Packard. I had a practise on my computer with Grandview as I have a photo in my pictures that is 576KB but I don't understand the pixel measurements which is 1188x1848 for that size. I either ended up with a tiny photo or a large one. I have Canon software as well but again the pixels and cm have me confused, not sure what the equivalent is and even if I did it jumps back to what it wants. I would appreciate any advice and sorry to sound so dumb. Regards, Cassie There may be a Canon resizer. I have used Magic Image Resizer. It works resizing multiple files. There are programs specifically for email resizing, but may be too small for printing. greg |
how do you resize photos
Cassie,
Irfanview is the easiest to use. At the top toolbar choose Image/scroll down to resize. 2nd box on left choose button switch to "set new size". Choose inches in the button switch, choose 5x7...Also VERT IMPORTANT use this screen to resize photos into smaller files when emailing. If emailing to a website in order to have them printed, email only the original or the largest file you have. Remember that if you save the pix as a jpg and open and close it alot after editing it, you will lose some sharpness. Keep trying. There are no dumb questions GG |
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