testing. testing.

[King Sockmunkey]

Just wanted to see my new avatar. :D

justin-

[King Sockmunkey]

wow..........its kinda small. i cant even see it....

anybody know anyway to resize an image without making it all blurry?

[King Sockmunkey]

he...heh...i didn't know i was in the drawing table....guess i should post some art so as not to look quite so stupid...

Benji (http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/sockstudios/vwp?.dir=/sketches&.src=gr&.dnm=Benji.jpg&.view=t&.done=http%3a//photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/sockstudios/lst%3f%26.dir=/sketches%26.src=gr%26.view=t)

comments and crits are welcome.

[shavedwookie]

I cant really make out the new avatar....what is it? like my new one. BOO YEAH!

erm dunno how to resize it though. and i cant see the pic you posted either.


so do you think this thread is gonna be moved? who knows...... jesus does!

[Village_Mystic]

King Sockmunkey asks:
wow..........its kinda small. i cant even see it....

anybody know anyway to resize an image without making it all blurry?

OK. The final image is going to have one dimension that is 72 pixels.

That's about 1 inch on a lower res monitor and smaller on a high res monitor.

Scan or draw your original image at one dimension being 3 inches or less. AT A HIGH RESOLUTION SUCH AS 3X72 DPI (216 dpi) or up to 300 dpi.

Save image as a TIFF file and do all of your manipulation of the file as a TIFF file. I recommend that each changed file be saved under a different name that you can easily remember such as using lrg, med, sm in the file name or the DPI resoltion as part of the file name.

In your photo-editingprogram or scan program change the size and the resolution of the image at the same time.

If your image is layered flatten image. Also change colors to RGB if they are currently in CMYK or INDEXed.

Make a version that's 2 inches or 144 pixels wide (or high, this should be the largeest dimension) at the 144 DPI resolution. Save TIFF File.

From that version, make a version that is 1 inch or 72 dpi wide, save as tiff file.

With this tiff file save as GIF file. Alternately, if the image is a photograph you may now save as a jpg. If you have options to only us visible colors and discard unused colors, accept this option.

File will be less blurry -- or maybe even not blurry.

Here's an example of a photograph of me that I applied the process to.

original (actually already reduced from source jpg digital camera):
http://www.bestfriendsproductions.com/images/Rachel.jpg

reduced (and cropped):
http://www.bestfriendsproductions.com/images/Rachel72a.jpg

Good luck!