Resizing Your Work
(according to the world of Victoria... aka ReaderOfTales@aol.com)

Please understand that I wrote this tutorial for a wonderful friend of mine, Evelyn. I was feeling silly that morning & she loves me enough to allow it. LOL So, I'm letting some of that good mood stay in the tutorial.

1. Have your image or tube or whatever open. (Well, now that was a "duh!", wasn't it? Sorry. I'm amusing myself this morning. I hope you don't mind too much.)

2. Go to Image/Resize (or Shift+S) 

3. You will have a new box pop up that looks like this:

    Notice that you have 3 choices on how to resize. #1 is by number of pixels. #2 is by percentage. #3 is by actual physical size. (I use #3 for photos. hehe) 

4. Side note - I keep the box at #4 checked unless I am working with trying to resize a layer. If you UNcheck it, you will only resize the active layer.

5. Back to the point here. <grin> I generally use a combination of #1 & #2. Let's say, for example, that your image is 400X400. Open the resize, select "pixels" (#1) & type in "350." This is what you'll see in the resize box.

    #2 & #3 have changed to reflect what you typed in at #1. For me, this is acceptable because #2 is over 80. I've noticed that if you resize too much at one time, you can't clean it up. (I'm getting there, I promise. lol) Click "OK." (If it was less than 80, I would put 80 into #2, do step 6 and then come back to this step.  Repeat steps #5 & #6 until you finally get the size you are after.)

6. Now, your result is a bit fuzzier than it was. We're going to fix that right now. <grin> Go to Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen.

Voila! Now your image is clear & sharp again.

    Final note... do NOT resize lower than 80%. Some tutorials tell you to resize at 75%. I don't happen to find that that gives me an acceptable sharpness when I'm done. You can do it all at once but your image won't regain it's clarity properly when you sharpen. It's better to do it in more than one resize if necessary. 
But that's the key... resize, then always sharpen.

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09/29/03