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Want to put an O&M (cropped) pic as my avy, but it's too big. I used Photoshop to crop it to what I want, but now don't know how to shrink it a bit.[/img]

I don't know Photoshop anymore, but I suspect you're looking to scale the image down (bold to point out verb that is probably used).

Tailsthefox: Hmm... I hope PS hasn't changed too much since 5.0 LE that what I said doesn't make sense. If it hasn't, then this ought to help:

The Cropping Tool allows you to set a target size. With the Cropping Tool selected, go to the Navigator pane, select the Cropping Options tab, and check Fixed Target Size. It will lock the aspect ratio to that of your target as well.

If you have already cropped the image as desired, you can resize the entire image to fit. Select on the menu bar "Image" -> "Image Size", make sure "Resample Image" checkbox is checked, and change the length/width to the desired size (96-120 pixels to a side ought to work just fine). Press OK, and the image will be reduced.

Save the results as a new file, and you're done.

Want to put an O&M (cropped) pic as my avy, but it's too big. I used Photoshop to crop it to what I want, but now don't know how to shrink it a bit.[/img]

Image -> Image Size (Alt+Ctrl+I)
Pixels
127 x 127 (Replace 127 with whatever. I usually have my avitars set to 100 x 100.)

If constrain proporsions is off, your crop is not a square, and will have to enter the smallest number as 127 (like in a 200 x 300 image, change the 200 to 127) and then crop properly [or do (Alt+Ctrl+C) and then make it 127 x 127 there]. If you don't constrain proportions and you force it to be 127 x 127 and it's not a square, stretching will occur, and I HATE STRETCHING SO DON'T DO IT FOR MY SAKE PLZ~!1!

OH! Another thing to do is if you want a square image and not using the Fixed Target Size option on the cropping tool, hold down the SHIFT key and only use the corner resize handles to force the cropper to remain square, THEN use the Image Size option after you crop it.

OH! Another thing to do is if you want a square image and not using the Fixed Target Size option on the cropping tool, hold down the SHIFT key and only use the corner resize handles to force the cropper to remain square, THEN use the Image Size option after you crop it.

This works for any marquee-type tool. Even circle ones for perfect circles.

Call me what you will, but Ive found sucky 'ol
-MS PAINT- to be very handy for scaling images down under "stretch/skew"

"stretch/skew"

Ick

Call me what you will, but Ive found sucky 'ol
-MS PAINT- to be very handy for scaling images down under "stretch/skew"

It loses a lot of detail, though, thanks to its nearest-neighbour sampling..

nearest-neighbour sampling..

Ick

For day to day use, yeah .....ick.

BUT, it did a nice job for my avatar. Oh well.

Ugh. I tried to Scale it, but still couldn't make it work. If I send the pic to someone, could they do it for me, and send it back?

Ugh. I tried to Scale it, but still couldn't make it work. If I send the pic to someone, could they do it for me, and send it back?

Yes...

Just post it up on ehre and someone will do it.

Okay, I'm trying to do that....errr....but I don't know how. (I'm extremely computer illiterate!) I have it save in "My Pictures"....

Oh. Youm could use Imageshack.us or Photobucket.com

I suppose you could E-mail it to someone. My e-mail is

SageTourmaline@hotmail.com