Resizing photos

[MelBay]

I need to load some photos to my website and they must be 350 x 350. I have tried to use several different pieces of photo editing software and the end result of my trying to resize them repeatedly comes up at 350 x 281. 350 x 281 doesn't work, it skews the page. Gotta gotta gotta be 350 x 350.

Anyone know of any photo editing software that will do what I tell it?

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

I need to load some photos to my website and they must be 350 x 350. I have tried to use several different pieces of photo editing software and the end result of my trying to resize them repeatedly comes up at 350 x 281. 350 x 281 doesn't work, it skews the page. Gotta gotta gotta be 350 x 350.

Anyone know of any photo editing software that will do what I tell it?

With most resizing menu options there is an option to lock or unlock proportions during resizing. Almost always the default setting is to preserve proportions. With this option turned on, whenever you rescale one dimension, the other dimension is automatically rescaled proportionately.

There's usually a check box, or something similar, that will unlock the maintain proportions setting. If you find that setting and clear it, you should be good.

Note that if you do not maintain proportions when resizing, items in the photo will get skinnier or fatter after resizing. For example, in my avatar the face is skinnier than in the original photo. That happened when I resized to fit the dimension requirement with proportional resizing turned off.

If you don't want the images to distort, you should resize the photo so the minimum dimension is 350 pixels, then crop the photo to 350x350. Another way to do this is to first crop your photo so that it is square, then resize that square to 350 pixels on each side. You should get the same result either way.

 

[MelBay]

Thanks Steve, I appreciate it. I'm not finding a proportion setting, so I'm going to have a glass of wine, sleep on it, and try again tomorrow.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

Thanks Steve, I appreciate it. I'm not finding a proportion setting, so I'm going to have a glass of wine, sleep on it, and try again tomorrow.

Open the picture in Microsoft Paint (should be in your Accessories folder); it's a default Windows program.

Select "Resize". Clear the checkbox for "Maintain aspect ratio" and select the button for "Pixels" instead of "percentage". Enter the widths you want in pixels, and click "OK".

 

[PigsDad]

Do you really need the whole picture to be sized to a 350x350 pic? If not, I would first crop the picture to a square dimension. After that is done, then you can resize / resample it to 350x350. Doing this will not distort the image, which can ruin the picture, IMO.

Kurt

 

[caribbeansun]

Wouldn't it be easier to change the html that's forcing the resize of the image to 350 x 350?

You'll see
"<a href="example.gif"><img src="example.gif" alt="" width="350" height="350"></a>" (without the first and last quotes)

Just change the second one to 281.

I need to load some photos to my website and they must be 350 x 350. I have tried to use several different pieces of photo editing software and the end result of my trying to resize them repeatedly comes up at 350 x 281. 350 x 281 doesn't work, it skews the page. Gotta gotta gotta be 350 x 350.

Anyone know of any photo editing software that will do what I tell it?