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Sizing Pictures

Jul 11, 2004 11:58AM PDT

Can anyone direct me to info that can help me to re-size pictures the sizes that I want. For instand making a charm size picture from a digital photo or a scanned one? Making a charm is something I want to do, but I'm resizing pictures all the time and they never come out in the sizes that I want.

It's not necessarily the quality...it's the size.

I have Paint Shop Pro (my preference)...and Photoshop. I also use ACDsee to view and make some changes all the time.

None of them give me the size I expect. Even if I tell it what size I want to be in no uncertain terms!

Can anyone help me make all these corrolations to get the sizes I want?

Thanks...Deb

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Re: Sizing Pictures
Jul 11, 2004 12:03PM PDT

A little math can go a long way here.

Find out how many Dots Per Inch the printer printing at.

Then for instance, at 720 DPI, make some picture exactly 720 DOTS wide. Print it at 1 to 1 with what application allows that and see if it comes out 1 inch wide.

Bob

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Re: Sizing Pictures
Jul 12, 2004 4:43AM PDT

I highly recommend IrfanView.

You can specify the exact size you want, for printing or for just converting to be saved as an image.

You can specify the dpi (dots per inch) at the same time.
When you resize you can specify dimensions in pixels (the dots), centimeters, or inches.

Lots of options.
You can also "batch" convert images, where you specify what images you want converted with a common selection of changes on all those selected images.

Check it out. It is free. It does so much more than the very little I have already mentioned.