Useless as a chocolate fireguard

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 7:24 pm

Good evening
Once again I come before you to beg that you may furnish me with wisdom.
Here it is:
I would like to change my avatar
I find an image I like on google and then I have no idea how to resize it
I have a friend who would normally do it for me but I'd like to know how myself whilst at the same time being very, very lazy
Are there any good imagey-type programmes I can use to reduce a piccie down to 100x100 without it assuming I just want the corner of the thing like an orphaned jigsaw piece?
My thanks in advance

SothThe69th · Post by **SothThe69th** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 7:26 pm

In most image editting programs theres a resize option. In Paintshop Pro, I know that you can choose the exact amount of pixels to resize it to, the percentage, and the type of method for resizing.

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 7:35 pm

I'm using 'Imaging for Windows' and 'Paint' and I can't seem to find that option on either?

SothThe69th · Post by **SothThe69th** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 7:41 pm

I place little faith in either of them having it, as they're both rather basic programs.

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 7:46 pm

So it would seem, I'll go and see if I can get a copy Paintshop Pro
Thanks for your help

amlthrawn · Post by **amlthrawn** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 8:04 pm

Jansoft used to have a great freeware program called formati that I frequently use to do basic resizing and image conversion.

Jansoft. THe only problem is that most of the links to the program are dead...

It's hard to find now, and I don't know why. You might google for it. If you can't find it, I think I may have the install app laying around my hard drive somewhere. PM me if you want it. It's freeware, so there's no problem sharing.

Shadow_2982 · Post by **Shadow_2982** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 9:31 pm

god buy photoshop 7

Post by **Martin Blank** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 9:44 pm

Some people can't afford Photoshop, and it's extreme overkill for a simple image resize, anyway. There are dozens of small utilities out there that can do image resizing.

I imagine some of these might do the trick.

TopCat · Post by **TopCat** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 10:34 pm

If you have microsoft office, even office 97 has this thing you only get if you do custom install, it's called Microsoft Image Editor. It has some nice features, but you can't do anything like draw circles or whatever you can with paint, so it's a good thing for images (with its blur, resize, sharpen, stuff) but not for drawing (like in paint)

- Tipped out by TopCat

Skorpion · Post by **Skorpion** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 11:13 pm

Totally OT, but meh.

A chocolate fireguard is more useful than you think. You can eat it.

Webphisher · Post by **Webphisher** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 8:20 am

I'll go you one easier, shoot me the pic and what you want it resized to, and Ill resize it for you.

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 10:05 am

Thanks Webphisher, but I've downloaded XnView which I am going to play about with for a while and see if I canfigure it out
Cheers for your help all

FireAza · Post by **FireAza** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 11:16 am

Martin: Who ever said anything about affording it? *grin*

Post by **Martin Blank** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 5:12 pm

You know better, Aza.

Newgy · Post by **Newgy** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 10:33 pm

Isn't there a free 'trial' version of PSP? As far as i can recall it is only supposed to last for 30 days, but it doesn't stop you from continuing to use it...

EDIT: try the download page on the JASC website

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