Resizing Images

[Michael74]

Yes. Always do what your mother tells you to do. She loves you, and will take care of you.

 

[Explorer55]

I usually use a program called, "Irfanview" for photo resizing and editing.

 

[th1b.taylor]

I usually use a program called, "Irfanview" for photo resizing and editing.

I used Irfanview years ago but loving Photography I need something that would do no less than what can be done in the lab with film. Today, friends and Church Family Scan torn pics and email the file to me ad I completely restore and enlarge them and return the file for them to have professionally printed.

My favorite was a Deacon's grandfather and another man seated oon the crest of a mountain in North Carolina, playing cards with an unlabeled, long necked, clear bottle of clear liquid setting between that they, obviously were partaking of. It was on a 3.5x5 inch piece of Bak-o-Lite that had broken in half and over the years had lost about a quarter of an inch missing from each of the broken edges missing as well as about a third of the right B

The OP question has nothing to do with "some on these forums". Nothing.

You are new here and not very wise. After you come to learn
bottom missing. I restored it and bew it so it could be printed as large as 20x30" and ran off an 8x10 to give to his wife when I returned the original, the disk with the file and thhe 8x10 for hs birthday. She paid me fifty and 75 to a printer and gave him the whole lot, save the original for his birthday.

My second favorite was a 5x7" from the mid thirties of the nineteen hundreds of an old Pick-up Truck with eight Kids inside the bed with dad leaning on the tail gate. The infant in that one had had half of it's face cut off and it was and old B&W with the scroll work printed on the over-sized edges. I rebuilt the baby's face by Point to Point Selection, flipped it horizontally and I believe I rotated it about 7.5 degrees and moved it into place. when all of the Layer Work was finished I merged then and save it as a B&W. then i told the owner it would great in color if she could tell me which person had what color garment on. I Point by Point selected after bowing the image by 1300% and I painted
each arm, leg, face and garment while selected to prevent bleed over and painted the truck bright ref. The own did not have as nickel to her name but I printed it in both Color and B&W and when she saw the color 8x10 she cried and told me some silly nonsense and said her little sister would inherit the B&W.

I did all of my PhotoShop work with the Free GIMP Program but if you operate windoze make dead certian you download the package and any tools only from the official site. Running Open source of windows is frowned upon by windows nerds and many of the windoze versions are routinely infected but not on any of the Linux Group.

 

[Explorer55]

I have Gimp here on my Ubuntu computer but have yet to explore it to any degree. I'll have to play with it sometime to get used to it being I am migrating as much as possible away from Windoze.

 

[jay55]

No thanks. I asked my mom about it and she said that there wasn't any need for me to get one so as always... mother knows best.

I was going to suggest emailing the picture to yourself because many email services (eg. Gmail) will ask you if you would like it to reduce the size before sending. But, if you don't have email I guess this isn't an option.

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

I was going to suggest emailing the picture to yourself because many email services (eg. Gmail) will ask you if you would like it to reduce the size before sending. But, if you don't have email I guess this isn't an option.

I do have a Gmail account, I just don't have a fake email address that I could use. But this issue was solved a long time ago so we're all good.

 

[th1b.taylor]

I have Gimp here on my Ubuntu computer but have yet to explore it to any degree. I'll have to play with it sometime to get used to it being I am migrating as much as possible away from Windoze.

I also use Ubuntu, one on my laptop with the Gnome Desk Top and the other and on my Tower I use the Unity Desk Top. The first thing you'll want to do is to pick a task and before you begin it, download a few How To pdfs, It will make learning GIMP a snap. I still cannot use PhtoShop whe I run into it on other people's units thar I'm repairing or setting up but it took less than a month to handle all of the basic operations without checking with the How To files. Gimp, like PS will bend a curve with four different curves o the same pic and recover those lost pics because they are to light or two dark. I have even done on where I knew the subjects, Sister-in-law and her daughter taken with a cell at, maybe a 15 degree angle with her daughter furtherest away. Mom was perfectly exposed but over 70% of the daughter, vertically was to dark beginning toward her right and progressively growing darker. It was a terrible picture ad it took me a full two days and nights of blowing the Pixel Count so I could select portions or regions of her body and bend the main curve on it to bring the light level up on ju8st her, leaving the back ground alone. They both display the result on their FB Pages.

I believe the most useful and easy to use tools found under Colors/Curves. I find it interesting to play with the Red, the Blue, and the Green Curves to enrich the colors ajd te Curve tat pops up wen opened will cause the shade to change. And to smoothly blow a file opened with GIMP select on the tool bar, Image/Scale Image. Play with it, if you've made the jump to GNU Software you will love the Intuitive UI of GIMP.