How To Resize An Image For Uploading
We require that the photos you send are a maximum size of 2 megabytes or 1024 pixels each.
Shrinkpictures allows you to resize your photo image online simply click on the link below and follow the onpage instructions.
Alternatively you can use freely available image editing software and follow the instructions below.
If you have any difficulty then please contact our technical team who will be happy to help you.
- Picasa is a free google software editing and organisational software program which is very easy to use. Download picasa from here or the the mac version here
- Paint is a default, basic, image editor that comes as part of the Windows operating system. While it’s convenient, the quality of pictures scaled in Paint won’t be very good.
- Photoshop is a high-end graphics editing program with many functions. Photoshop isn’t needed for the purposes of this project; it produces high-quality images with a minimal loss of resolution, but is very expensive.
- Gimp is a free image editing program, which can produce high-quality graphics and has many of the same functions as Photoshop. Unlike Photoshop, however, Gimp is an open-source program available for download on the Web (www.gimp.org).
- Windows photo manager is another organisational program that allows basic photo editing.
Picasa
- Select your image and press “Export”.
- Click on “Image Size Options” and select the “Resize To” button.
- Adjust the slider. The number of pixels you select with the slider determines the length or height of the photo (whichever is longer). The other dimension is determined automatically.
- Select the desired image quality for your photo using the “Image Quality” drop-down menu. “Custom” will enable you to select your own value.
- Save.
Paint
- Open the file. (File > Open)
- Select “Stretch/Skew”, found on the image menu.
- Enter equal percentages in the boxes that say “100%”.
- Click “OK”.
- Click “File” and “Save As”
- Select an appropriate file type. Jpg works best for wikiHow articles.
- Save the image as a new file.
Photoshop
- Open the image in Photoshop by clicking on File > Open.
- Select the “image size” command by clicking on Image > Image Size.
- Select a new width or length for the image (measurements are in pixels); Photoshop will automatically scale the other measurement to match.
- Click “OK” to resize the image.
- Save the image as a new file.
GIMP
- Open the Photo by clicking on File > Open.
- Click on “Image”
- Select “Scale Image”
- Use the Up and Down arrows beside the pixel sizes to increase or decrease the image size.
- Alternatively, just select one of the axes and type in the number of pixels you want. The axes are linked, so the other box should adjust to the correct ratio when you hit “enter” or “ok”.
- Save the image as a new file.