Image Resize

Every image is measured by its width and height in pixels. A digital camera takes pictures at specific dimensions, i.e., 800x600 or 1024x768.  These are similar to the screen dimension of your monitor. You can resize an image to any dimension, but the quality may change drastically depending on the settings. You can also resize a selection.

To resize an image or selection:

  1. Do one of the following:

  2. Do one of the following:

  3. Click the Resampling filter drop-down arrow and select a filter.  Lanczos is the default filter.

  4. Click OK.

Recommendations

To maintain the best image quality when resizing, reduce an image 33% or 50%, while maintaining the aspect ratio.

Do not resize repeatedly. Only resize an image once.  Each image resize places the pixels of an image in a slightly different orientation to each other and repeated resizing may change the overall color and appearance of the image.

It is recommend that you do not increase the size of an image.  Increasing the size of an image makes the pixelation of the image more apparent to the user.

Metafiles

A metafile or Vector image file is associated with drawing programs. The unique quality of a metafile is that it can be resized without increasing the file size. FotoCanvas saves all files as Raster images.