How To Resize Pictures

julie · 11-02-2006, 02:11 AM

ah, another tutorial for me. fun fun. this one is a lil different though. now, we get alot of picture threads showing off something and most of the time, the pics are huge. luckly, theres a easy way to make them fully viewable for those people with smaller screen resolution

Step 1:

Open the picture in MSPAINT. im using this pic i find of a nissan skyline as an example. its at 1024x768 resolution, which is too big to be viewable on a web forum

Step 2:

Now click on IMAGE and then STRETCH/SKEW

Step 3:

Now youll get this menu. it scales based on a percentage, so enter a smaller number for both values. keep it equal though. i like to start w/ 50 in both values

Step 4:

now u got all this space around the image... what to do?

julie · 11-02-2006, 02:12 AM

Step 5:

use the mouse arrow to "grab" these tiny gray boxes on the bottom and right of the image and bring it up to the edge of the pic

Step 6:

now your image is nice and small and ready for display on pspmod.com or any other forum. ive notice that really images get distorted with this method, so i reccomend changing the setting on your camera to medium detail or so. the detail stays the same, the pics res just goes down. then when u resize it using this method, it wont distort. easy huh?

**original tutorial by julie @ pspmod.com. **

oh, and dont point out the irony of a resizing pic thread with huge pics. i already noticed

Sullivan · 11-02-2006, 02:20 AM

nice tut, but that skylnie great with the matching looks rims

PSP_Bro · 11-02-2006, 02:26 AM

you can also just choose the resize image button on imageshack.us when hosting the pictures

Sullivan · 11-02-2006, 02:28 AM

yeah thats what i do, and i beleive this is the first anything goes stickie..

jrmdb3 · 11-02-2006, 02:47 AM

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Originally Posted by chinese people

yeah thats what i do, and i beleive this is the first anything goes stickie..

Ummm, theres likes 9.

Sullivan · 11-02-2006, 07:19 PM

ooo, i never even noticed those, and Anything goes is my most viewed forum.

lead2gold · 11-02-2006, 07:29 PM

is this really worth a sticky? a N00b on a stick will know how to shrink an image. There isn't a graphic program out there that doesn't offer this capability somewhere in it's menus/options.

I mean... if shrinking is your goal and mspaint.exe is for some reason your image editor... you can save yourself 4 steps off the above tutorial if you just use the "Attributes..." option (from the image drop down) instead of "Shrink/Skew"

But hey.. thats just my two cents...

julie · 11-02-2006, 08:52 PM

attributes doesnt scale the image. it just makes the pic smaller by cropping. what i did was provide a guide to show people how easy it is to resize pics without cropping,and this guide is intended for anyone who doesnt have additional image editing software on their comps

THC · 11-03-2006, 04:11 PM

NICE SKYLINE, what site did you get that from?

julie · 11-03-2006, 05:08 PM

i googled "nissan skyline" and went to google images

Dende00 · 11-21-2006, 02:49 PM

Good look Julie, It was simple, like you said. Nice Skyline, Elise, and nice new self pic.

julie · 11-21-2006, 07:43 PM

welcome back dende. u forgot to congradulate me on my new super moderator powers

Dende00 · 11-22-2006, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by julie

welcome back dende. u forgot to congradulate me on my new super moderator powers

Julie, congrats on your new awesome powers. A lot change since I been gone. You were like authority before on here. I gotta watch my tongue this time round. Thanx, for your kiss. I will save it fa lata when im down

WhizZ · 11-29-2006, 06:27 AM

I stick with photoshop, it's not so pixelrate thingy stuff, and much more easier than paint :X