September 11th, 2001
Never to
forgive,
Never to
forget!
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How To Resize The Image:
You should already have XnView downloaded and installed. If not then go to the XnView homepage download and install it. Now you need to browse to where the picture is on your computer that you want to resize. XnView has a standard type Windows browser tree so you should be able to navigate around without any problem. 
Once you have found the picture you want to resize highlight it in the window that contains the file information (name, size etc) and either double click or right click and choose 'Open'. You should notice that the screen now appears different. On the menu at the top select 'Image' and scroll down to 'Resize' and click. 
Once you click on the 'Resize' you should see a window that appears something like what you see below. Notice the red arrows I have added? Two of the arrows point to the width and height of the image 
and the other one points to the checkbox for 'Keep Ratio'.
Make sure the "Keep Ratio" is checked if you don't want the picture to distort when you resize it. Alternatively you can get out a pencil and scratch paper and figure out the maximum pixel percentage reduction from the larger of the width or height (but not both) and then take the same amount off the inverse of the one you did the calculation on. Actually it is much easier to just make sure the "Keep Ratio" is checked. Most pictures are wider than they are taller, unless someone turned the camera sideways, so you will probably want to adjust the width value. If you have the "Keep Ratio" checked you will notice that when you change the 'width' value then the 'height' value also changes. This is a good thing. For this example I am going to change the size of the image from the original 2048x1536 down to 200x150. I only need to change the width value to 200, the height value will change automatically. |