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How to use Piccyfix to change the resize of your photo or picture

Starting from the Home Page, upload your photo, choose either Rotate/Resize Only  or  Run All wizard Steps, and the final step before generating will allow you to do the resizing.

You can resize to either bigger or smaller than the original.

If there are any other wizard steps that you want to skip, just choose the 'Original' picture on that step. You will end up on the Generate page which generates your resized picture.

Resize Smaller Explanation

Resizing photos, pictures and images, and especially reducing them to make them smaller is the most used feature on Piccyfix. Here's why..

Most modern point-and-shoot digital cameras, and now even the cheap webcams and cell/mobile phones with built-in cameras take photos that are VERY big in size. Even webcams typically take 1.3 megapixel photos. (That's big!).

This is great for complex editing with professional (and expensive) photo editing software, but if you want just to publish these pictures on the web - either on a blog or MySpace, or Flickr, or some other community site, you've got problems. You will almost certainly have to resize them to make them smaller.

Even if you just wanted to print out these large pictures for putting into a photo frame or photo album, a lot of the detail will be simplified anyway just before printing, as the resolution of the digital pics is much bigger than your printer can handle. So no benefit from big pictures there either. And even viewing big pictures on your pc using photo viewer software will slow it down quite a lot - the images may take a while to load.

Most blogs or sites like MySpace.com do not allow you to upload pictures more than approx 500k in size. Your average digital image will be many times this size. So you need to reduce the image size (downsize it, or shrink it), without losing the quality.

The same problem happens for photos and pictures that you want to send to your friends via email. If you try to send a very large image (larger than 1MB) by email, sometimes the picture will arrive ok, sometimes it won't arrive, and sometimes you might get an email error, and sometimes not. So it's not very reliable. Even if it does arrive, your friends and family will be swearing at you as you freeze their email client for minutes on end as the image uploads.. slowly.. possibly finally crashing it at some point.

In short, Email just isn't very good at big pictures.

Unlike similar sites, Piccyfix allows you to upload your photos and pictures up to 8 Megapixels in size. That's big!! And then make them smaller or bigger to suit your needs.

Resizing - Setting exact pixel size, exact pixel width or exact pixel height.

Some sites sometimes insist that neither the image height nor width is longer than eg. 300 pixels wide. The common sizes mentioned above might not fit exactly, so instead of choosing a common size you can set the pixel size of the longest side.

In this example you would type 300, and the final image will have it's longest side set to 300 (be that the width or the height), and the other side will be resized automatically by Piccyfix so the proportions of the overal image are kept. ie. the image won't get 'stretched' height-wise or width-wise. In this way, you just need to supply the longest side, be that the photo height or the photo width.

If, after generating the final image it looks too big or too small, using the links at the top, you can resize the photo up or down again until you get it just right. Or choose the exact pixel size as described above.

Resize Bigger Explanation

Please be aware that when you resize a photo, image or picture to make it bigger, you will ALWAYS appear to lose picture quality. It will look more 'blocky' and pixellated. This will happen on this site or via any other site or photo imaging software.

This is because with smaller images, there just isn't enough detail in the photo to be picked out and used when the picture is made bigger. This is opposite to making a picture smaller, where detail can easily be taken out of the larger photo, and the smaller photo will be perfect.

The best advice here is to avoid making the picture too big in relation to it's original size, then the effect of the blockiness will be less.

You might also want to try the 'Sharpen' effect before reaching the resize page, which tries to remove some of the bluriness that will naturally happen by resizing the picture to make it bigger.

Resizing General Guidelines

Your digi camera can usually be configured to take smaller or bigger photos... if you can work out how. If you can, it's usually best to always take a bigger picture then resize downwards afterwards. The bigger the original image, the better quality the resized (smaller) image will be.

In short 'take big and resize smaller' rather than 'take small and resize bigger'. Photos that are resized to make them smaller ALWAYS look great. Photos that are resized to make them bigger RARELY look good.

Piccyfix will present a set of common image sizes for you to pick from, and will tell you (for each) the resized picture in pixels, width and height. These common sizes are exactly the size that the generated picture will be so there's no need to guess at the pixel size.. what you see is what you get.

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