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Using Paint - need to re-size image in inches
Can anyone explain how to accomplish this seemingly basic edit?
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Digital images are defined by pixel count and aspect ratio...
inches don't really mean much except when you are using
a printing template or cropping.....then the dialog may show
4x6, 5x7, 8x10, etc. but not in Paint.
Windows 7 - Crop A Photo Using Paint
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Crop-a-picture-using-Paint
If you use Windows Live Photo Gallery to crop your photo...
you will have Proportion Choices of 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, etc.
How to Crop Photos by Using Windows Live Photo Gallery
Update - try this;
I just resized a photo to 1 x 1 with paint. Open in paint, click on toolbar Image; attributes,
and switch to inches. Then you can estimate how far to reduce image by (either plugging in the size, or, I did it by reducing the size by % (image; resize)
144 x 144 pixels at 96 dpi
Ironically, photo I was tasked with providing was a "1-1/2" X 1-1/2" head shot photo" for an ID badge.
I'll let them know that they should specify pixels, or cubits in the future.
