♥ Tutorials > Photoshop > Image Resize ♥

Sometimes you work on an image for so long but alas! the size doesn't fit exactly like what you have imagine it to be. Other times you obtain images from your digital cameras but the file size is too big and might eat into your bandwidth.

No worries, because with photoshop's resizing tool, you can easily defeat these problems. This tutorial teaches you exactly how you can resize your images without distorting the original look of your images.

1. Adobe Photoshop
   This guide is written for Adobe Photoshop users, written base on Adobe Photoshop 7.

1. Change your image mode to RGB color by "Images > Mode > RGB color", make sure this is set especially for pixelled image.
   It is also best to select this option for other images.
   This prevents any image distortion when resizing.


2. This tutorial contains three main parts, click if you want to skip steps:
   • Resizing non-pixelled images
   • Resizing pixelled images
   • Tips

You can right click to save these images in your computer to follow through this tutorial.

But please bear in mind these pictures belong to me and you should not distribute them in anyway or claim it your own, which means you cannot put them in your websites too.

Follow these steps to resize an image.

1. Open the file in Photoshop.
   


2. Select Image > Image Size. There will be a pop up.
   
   


3. Make sure that the boxes for "Constrain Proportions" and Resample Image: Bicubic" is selected.
   Input the new size values in the highlighted box. In this case, I shrinked the image with respect to the width size, 200px. (If you want to enlarge a picture, key in a value that that is bigger than the original value.) Click "ok" to apply the changes.
   


4. You should able to see a change in the image size.
   

Follow these steps to resize an image.

1. Open the file in Photoshop.
   
   
2. Select Image > Image Size. There will be a pop up.
   
   
   
3. Make sure that the boxes for "Constrain Proportions" and Resample Image: Nearest Neighbor" is selected.
   Input the new size values in the highlighted box. In this case, I enlarged the image with respect to the width size, 400px. (If you want to shrink a picture, key in a value that that is smaller than the original value. However, shrinking of a pixel image might cause distortion.) Click "ok" to apply the changes.
   
   
4. You should able to see a change in the image size.
   
   
5. Troubleshooting: If you see this image instead,
   
   you might have forgotten to apply "Resample Image: Nearest Neighbor". Try step 2 again.

You should select "Resample Image > Bicubic" if you want to smooth edges especially when enlarging images.

Select "Resample Image > Nearest Neighbor" if you want to crisp lines and hard edges especially when enlarging pixelled images.