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- Resizing Images
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- Image can resize a picture in several ways :
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- Scale - Scales the picture (up or down) to the desired size
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- Crop - Crops a picture
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- Tile - Repeats a picture the required number of times to fill new size
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- Extend - Extends a picture outwards by adding blank areas (3 types)
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- The resize control window contains several icons allowing each of the above
- to be performed. In the centre of the window are icons grouped under the
- label 'Size'. These icons allow the user to specify the size to resize to for
- all but the 'crop' resize operation.
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- By selecting the 'Reset' icon the values in the 'Size' icons will be filled
- with the size of the current picture, whilst 'Current' fills it with the size
- at the current magnification.
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- If you enter a value in the icon marked 'Percentage' and select the 'Set'
- icon the 'Size' icons will be filled with the size of the current picture
- altered to that percentage (ie. 50 will make them half the size, 200 twice
- the size).
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- To the right of the 'Set' icon are two small option icons marked 'x' and 'y'.
- These control the adjusting of the size via the percentage option (above) and
- the 'Percentage Slider' (below). When the 'x' option is ticked any adjustment
- made via these two methods will affect the x size of the picture, and
- the same applies to the 'y' option. By default both options are set, but by
- switching off one of the options it is possible to alter just one of the
- dimensions.
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- By selecting the icon marked 'Thumb' the size icons will be filled with
- values to enable you to make a thumb nail picture. A thumb nail picture is a
- smaller representation of a picture for use in, say, a cataloguing system.
- This option takes the size of the picture and also two values from the
- 'Configuration' window (which define the max size for a thumb nail) and
- produce the correct values that keep the same aspect ratio.
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- Scale
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- The Scale operation performs a standard scaling operation. The operation
- takes the whole picture and resizes it to fill the desired size. In Image
- scaling uses a bilinear interpolation, which means that the rescaling will be
- accurate - this means that if, say, you resize to twice the size you don't
- just get alternate pixels being the same as the one before.
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- Crop
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- The crop operation takes the portion of the picture currently visible in the
- display window and makes a picture comprising of just that area. Thus you can
- use the window resize and scroll bars in the display window to show the area
- you require and simply select 'Crop'.
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- Tile
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- The tile operation takes an input picture and produces an output (of the
- desired size) which is the input picture repeated (like tiles) the number of
- times necessary to fill the new size.
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- Extend
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- There are three extend operations, each make an output picture larger than
- the input, placing blank (black) around the input to fill the added areas.
- The three operations allow you to place the input picture in different
- positions in the output :
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- Centre - Places the input in the centre of the output
- Top & Left - Places the input in the top left corner of the output
- Bottom & Right - Places the input in the bottom right corner of the output
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- Note: The Extend and Tile operations will complain if you attempt to use them
- to reduce the size of a picture.
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- The 'Resize' Drag Icon
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- At the bottom of the window is a slider icon. When you drag this icon the
- percentage icon is updated (along with the size icons) accordingly. This
- provides a simple way of working out the percentage you wish to scale a
- picture by to get a specific output picture size.
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