I keep reading posts where someone says they would make their image larger or smaller, but they don't know how. Instead of typing the same information over and over, I've decided to make this thread instead.
This can be done easily with free or inexpensive software.
If you have a PC, go to www.irfanview.com and download irfanview. It is free, and it is such a powerful software that I am amazed that it doesn't have a price tag. Load your image, and you can do many things with it, including cropping and resizing. Irfanview is the only PC based graphic software that I think is superior to its counterpart on the Mac. Everyone who has a PC and works with images should have it. The strange name is because the author of the software is named Irfan.
If you have a Mac, get the $35 shareware program GraphicConverter, available for download from many places, including the author's website, www.lemkesoft.com . Again, you can many things with your graphic besides resize it, but if this is all you need to do, it is easy to accomplish. You can also change the filetype from, say, a memory hogging .bmp to a streamline .jpg or .gif.
Be sure to rename your file when you save it if you want to keep both the original and the new image. Watch out with GraphicCpnverter, because if you have an area in the graphic selected, it will save JUST that area and overwrite your original file. Of course, this is often exactly what you want to do.
Although I think people should pay their shareware fees if they use software any length of time, I know lots of people who have had GraphicConverter forever and never paid it. Thorsten Lemke has very graciously not disabled ANY features in the download version, and has been upgrading it for years and years. I've manipulated graphics with GraphicConverter and people swore that the product was photoshopped.
I'll be glad to answer any questions anyone has about either software.
Good luck!



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