Posted: 1/2/2009 10:56:51 AM EDT
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Could someone please help me figure out how to shrink this picture???
Thanks in advance, obviously my pic-fu is damn weak today. 
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| I use Photoshop. I usually make the canvas size 800x600 and then I set the selection rectangle to be 80x60. I can incrementally reduce the image size until the section I want is in the rectangle and crop the image. I sharpen it up a bit and then do the save for web to get the best compressed image. |
The best I can get is this. Used ImageReady, sliced it to vertically and horizontally into 8 sections since original pic had 640 x 480 dimension, which is 8/6 proportion, trimmed the rest and re-sized it to 80 x 60 pixels and sharpened it a little. Your pic looks much better. Somehow I must find time to study ImageReady and Photoshop. It is impossible to figure out the program without instruction book. |
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That's pretty good.
The trick is the selection rectangle. If you set it to fixed size it works best. You do the reverse and can set it to 800x600 and click the image to see the size of the selection and enlarge the image to fit the look you want. The enlargement looks bad on screen, but you will be reducing the dimensions anyway and the loss of quality will disappear. It would be a whole lot easier if the avatar size was 100x100. 
I believe I may have a Photoshop training book or CD laying around here that I can send you. If I have it in PDF I'll upload it for you. I'll have to dig around. |
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