How do I resize a picture?

jamoor · 30 Nov 2014 at 20:32

I have some high resolution pictures that I want to resize to fit on a printout that's 125mmx65mm.

Essentially I want to shrink the picture and crop it down to that size, Can I do this without photoshop? I am running osx.

Thanks.

callummance · 30 Nov 2014 at 21:27

You could try using GIMP, been a while since I used it personally though...

_lecro_ · 30 Nov 2014 at 21:33

jamoor said:
, Can I do this without photoshop? I am running osx.

Yes you can do that in PS

you could just post it here and someone will do it for you

jamoor · 1 Dec 2014 at 00:21

_lecro_ said:
Yes you can do that in PS

you could just post it here and someone will do it for you

I could, but its something I want to do semi regularly, so I'd rather learn something :eek:

GravyMonster · 1 Dec 2014 at 08:03

My usual method (may be a better way, I'm no PS guru)

1. Create a new image of the desired size, make sure you set dpi to at least 300.
2. Paste image in and resize/crop as required.
3. Save
4. ?????
5. Profit.

AHarvey · 1 Dec 2014 at 09:44

OP says WITHOUT photoshop..

tom_e · 1 Dec 2014 at 09:47

Use GIMP it's not quite as polished as PS but it'll do that without issue.

cotton31 · 1 Dec 2014 at 10:25

Is this on a Windows machine? If you have Office, you can do this with Office Picture Manager.

Probably won't be as good a quality as Photoshop/GIMP, but it might suit your needs?

Edit: A bit more involved alternative is to use the Command Line and ImageMagick - this link gives an idea of how to resize a source image.

You could probably create a script to do this regularly if required.

AHarvey · 1 Dec 2014 at 10:40

cotton31 said:
Is this on a Windows machine? If you have Office, you can do this with Office Picture Manager.

Probably won't be as good a quality as Photoshop/GIMP, but it might suit your needs?

Edit: A bit more involved alternative is to use the Command Line and ImageMagick - this link gives an idea of how to resize a source image.

You could probably create a script to do this regularly if required.

he's using OSX, says in the first post

GravyMonster · 1 Dec 2014 at 11:12

AHarvey said:
OP says WITHOUT photoshop..

Not sure if this was aimed at me, but nothing in my instructions is PS specific. They work for GIMP as well as any other program. Hell, you could do it in Paint if it allowed you to set print DPI properly.

cotton31 · 1 Dec 2014 at 14:15

AHarvey said:
he's using OSX, says in the first post

Haha I'll blame it on it being Monday!

In that case, OP can use Preview. Under the Tools menu, choose Adjust Size.

Have a look at Automator too - you can create a workflow to do this automatically.

Also, ImageMagick point still applies as there's an OS X binary for it.