How do you resize pictures without affecting the quality of the picture...e.g. if I wanted to resize my avatar to a bigger size, how can I do that?
To be honest, I'm not familiar with resizing images to make them larger, while retaining quality, I know how to do it, but from what I understand, making a small image larger without it going all blurry is pretty much impossible. This is because when you make a picture bigger, you're stretching the pixels (the little square dots that make up a photo or picture) and this is what leaves that blur effect. Anyway, to make an image (such as an avatar) bigger in Photoshop, all you do is go into Image > Image Size and enter in the new size of the image you want. To make an image bigger that you are using on another graphic (such as a cut on a signature), you just go to Edit > Free Transform, and while holding down shift, you can make the image as small or as large as you want.
<div class="quote_poster">NTC187 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">To be honest, I'm not familiar with resizing images to make them larger, while retaining quality, I know how to do it, but from what I understand, making a small image larger without it going all blurry is pretty much impossible. This is because when you make a picture bigger, you're stretching the pixels (the little square dots that make up a photo or picture) and this is what leaves that blur effect. Anyway, to make an image (such as an avatar) bigger in Photoshop, all you do is go into Image > Image Size and enter in the new size of the image you want. To make an image bigger that you are using on another graphic (such as a cut on a signature), you just go to Edit > Free Transform, and while holding down shift, you can make the image as small or as large as you want.</div> Thanks, I will try that.
How come sometimes when I'm resizing a picture to make it smaller for say like an avatar sometimes the quality gets messed up? I thought it only got blurrier when you upsize it.
This depends, what program are you using? I'm going to assume Paint (based on what I know about you), and to answer your question, well I'm not too familiar with Paint, but it may be because you are shifting the image out of its original proportions. For example, as I told hustler, in Photoshop, if you hold 'Shift' while using the 'Free Transform' feature, it sizes the image down, while keeping it in proportion, so say if the image is 76x53, you can size it down pressing 'Shift', and get it to say 56x33, so as you can see there, it takes a clean 20px off both the height and width, keeping the image in proportion. Now what if you have that image, and dont press shift, then you could end up with somthing like for example 64x20, which would obviously constrew the image somewhat. Do you understand what I'm saying? If thats not the case, then it could just be that Paint doesnt handle resizing images very well.
Yeah, I guess paint just sucks because I took a perfectly square piece out of a picture (measured it on paint and it was 150x150) and tried to make it an avatar by downsizing it to 80x80 but the image quality screwed up.
Very easy, just bring up a new layer, and grab the pen tool, on size 1, and just draw up a border such as the one I did for your sig. Just make sure the Border is the top layer on the image.
<div class="quote_poster">NTC187 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Very easy, just bring up a new layer, and grab the pen tool, on size 1, and just draw up a border such as the one I did for your sig. Just make sure the Border is the top layer on the image.</div> Thanks, I'm a total photshop n00b.
What do you guys(refering to Trench, NTC, and all the Graphic Team) use to create your graphics. Do you use photoshop? and if so what kind(If theres different kinds)and how much does it cost. And what do you think is a good Photoediting program for under 200$? Thanks
I use photoshop CS2. Easily over $200.00 A great program on a budget that is user friendly is Paint Shop Pro. Google it. I know there is tons of info on it. I think its around $199.00
I tried cropping an image so the audience won't appear in the image but whenever I crop it the pic turns small and so does the sig. What am I doing wrong?
<div class="quote_poster">CPaulDWade#3 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">What do you guys(refering to Trench, NTC, and all the Graphic Team) use to create your graphics. Do you use photoshop? and if so what kind(If theres different kinds)and how much does it cost. And what do you think is a good Photoediting program for under 200$? Thanks</div> I also use Photoshop CS2. <div class="quote_poster">Carter Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I tried cropping an image so the audience won't appear in the image but whenever I crop it the pic turns small and so does the sig. What am I doing wrong?</div> I'm not sure what you're saying here, can you please explain it a bit better for me?
I had a pic of Vince Carter and wanted to delete the background of the audience and have the pic of VC only How would I do that?
I just use the marquee tool to erase large portions of the photo I want to cut, then I just use the erase and the zoom function around the edges of the person or object I want to cut out.
Sportsline (you can erase a part of the link where it says _lower and change it to dimensions such as 800x600) and Yahoo Sports are great sources.
^Thanks, and where is a good place to get good non sports related ones? Also, i tried putting up a new sig, and it says the remote file is too large, how do i change the file to be smaller?Do i have to save it differently? Also how do you download new fonts?
