Basic Resizing Tutorial
This is a very basic resizing tutorial for those wanting to enlarge work for print. Enlarging should be done PRIOR TO any other processing of your image.
This contains no gaussian blur layers, no processing tips – just how to resize your images, with very simple and non-technical information.
It does explain (in the simplest terms) the differences between file sizes and image size, and how to change the resolution.
Those already using a method to enlarge their photos won’t get much out of this, but those just learning might find it helpful
The tutorial is in a downloadable .pdf format and includes screenshots with the instructions, to make it even easier to follow.
Basic Image Enlargement in Photoshop
Thanks goes to Shaida Parveen for the image used during the making of the tutorial.
George Lenz
thanks for this… it’s very helpful
PhotogeniquE IPA
brilliant – thank you!
yolanda
Thank you, this is sooo helpful :-)
blamo
real good tip thanks
MattTworkowski
Thanks Gracey :-)
cherokee
A star
genevievem
excellent tutorial, I resize all the time but this explains the process really well and hopefully will help me do the job better.
Spazzy
IT’S GREAT…for photoshop users. The rest of us need some good basic rules of thumb that will get us through this minus Photoshop. Does no one else ever use Irfanview, GIMP, etc?
georgieboy98
May I suggest another way of increasing the size to enable you to make, say, an A3 print without pixellation. Again it is using Photoshop’s Image Size dialog and increasing it by 110% repeatedly until you get the pixel count that you want. I have made an action for this because it really works and I have never seen an explanation as to why this should be! Some of my photos have been too small to get a card, or laminated print, but a few clicks and bingo!! Peter
Statik66 15 days ago
yeah i have that gimp thing and it doesnt even come close to anything like what it shows here.i dont think that gimp is worth a crap.every time i input a set size and hit o.k. or whatever to save it,the numbers change to some off the wall calculations.i have the dimensions of what i need,but when i put them in they change and fucks everything up.