How To Resize Image In Photoshop

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Photoshop is a magnificent tool for graphic designers, web designers and digital media people. In this article our main focus is on Image Resizing in Photoshop.

Image resizing in Photoshop is an important function to learn because it is a common technique in digital media development. Image resizing in photoshop is use to make photos fit on web pages or print material.

Ok, now let's find out how to resize image in photoshop:

1. Open Adobe Photoshop and the photo you wish to resize.

2. Once you have your photo open navigate your mouse to the tool bar that runs along the top of the screen and click on "Image".

3. Once you click on "Image" from the tool bar, a drop down menu will appear. Select "Image Size" from the drop down menu. A window should popup with the images properties.

4. Initially, pay attention to "Pixel Dimensions" in the popup window. You can control the width and height values of the image in the popup window & can see a drop down menu for selecting "pixels" or "percent". Make sure a pixel is the unit selected in both the width ...
... and height fields.

5. Now suppose that the image you opened up at the start of this tutorial is very large, something like 2000 pixels wide by 1500 pixels in height and we want to resize the image to fit on a web page. Let's say that we want the image to take up about half the width of the web page. To accomplish this we would change the pixel width value from 2000 to 400 pixels. The image should not become distorted so make sure that "Constrain Proportions" option is checked hence the ratio between width and height is preserved.

6. Click "OK" and save the newly resized version of the image. Task Completed!

Hey! You just resized your first photo using Image resizing in photoshop. Remember Practice makes one perfect, so don't be afraid to try new things and experiment.

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