Help With Image Sizing

[pixel_chick]

Hi, everyone. I know its been a whule, but I have a question for you. I want to learn how ro take an image that is one size (small), and make it another size (larger), without stretching the image out of proportion. For example, I want to take the image below and increase the size to 940x240 pixels, or continue the background with the clouds to

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Okay...

[charliemc]

If you try to resize it directly to 940 x 240, then it will be 'screwed up' -- there's no way around it. If you want the width to be 940, then the height needs to be 476. What you can do is then crop it down from 476 to 240, of course.

The other problem is that while is fairly easy to resize smaller, it's hard to resize larger. The image becomes very pixelated, because you're taking the pixels and spacing them apart!

What you can try is using Edge Preserving Smooth on the original image. Then Unsharp Mask. Then do the resize. It won't be perfect, but it will be better than a resize without doing that!

Messing around with your original image, for example, I came up with the following. Obviously I couldn't get the flowing paint aspect, which is disappointing...

Does it have to be 940 in width? If so, why not resize the height to 240 (which will make the width 474), then put it on a solid color or gradient that's 240 x 940? (Just a thought!)

Anyway, let me know how it goes!

Good luck.

==CharlieMC, assistant moderator

Re: Okay...

[pixel_chick]

That is great! I'm going to give it a try myself and see how it works. Thanks a lot!