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Resizing Images
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Image can resize a picture in several ways :
Scale - Scales the picture (up or down) to the desired size
Crop - Crops a picture
Tile - Repeats a picture the required number of times to fill new size
Extend - Extends a picture outwards by adding blank areas (3 types)
The resize control window contains several icons allowing each of the above
to be performed. In the centre of the window are icons grouped under the
label 'Size'. These icons allow the user to specify the size to resize to for
all but the 'crop' resize operation.
By selecting the 'Reset' icon the values in the 'Size' icons will be filled
with the size of the current picture, whilst 'Current' fills it with the size
at the current magnification.
If you enter a value in the icon marked 'Percentage' and select the 'Set'
icon the 'Size' icons will be filled with the size of the current picture
altered to that percentage (ie. 50 will make them half the size, 200 twice
the size).
To the right of the 'Set' icon are two small option icons marked 'x' and 'y'.
These control the adjusting of the size via the percentage option (above) and
the 'Percentage Slider' (below). When the 'x' option is ticked any adjustment
made via these two methods will affect the x size of the picture, and
the same applies to the 'y' option. By default both options are set, but by
switching off one of the options it is possible to alter just one of the
dimensions.
By selecting the icon marked 'Thumb' the size icons will be filled with
values to enable you to make a thumb nail picture. A thumb nail picture is a
smaller representation of a picture for use in, say, a cataloguing system.
This option takes the size of the picture and also two values from the
'Configuration' window (which define the max size for a thumb nail) and
produce the correct values that keep the same aspect ratio.
Scale
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The Scale operation performs a standard scaling operation. The operation
takes the whole picture and resizes it to fill the desired size. In Image
scaling uses a bilinear interpolation, which means that the rescaling will be
accurate - this means that if, say, you resize to twice the size you don't
just get alternate pixels being the same as the one before.
Crop
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The crop operation takes the portion of the picture currently visible in the
display window and makes a picture comprising of just that area. Thus you can
use the window resize and scroll bars in the display window to show the area
you require and simply select 'Crop'.
Tile
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The tile operation takes an input picture and produces an output (of the
desired size) which is the input picture repeated (like tiles) the number of
times necessary to fill the new size.
Extend
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There are three extend operations, each make an output picture larger than
the input, placing blank (black) around the input to fill the added areas.
The three operations allow you to place the input picture in different
positions in the output :
Centre - Places the input in the centre of the output
Top & Left - Places the input in the top left corner of the output
Bottom & Right - Places the input in the bottom right corner of the output
Note: The Extend and Tile operations will complain if you attempt to use them
to reduce the size of a picture.
The 'Resize' Drag Icon
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At the bottom of the window is a slider icon. When you drag this icon the
percentage icon is updated (along with the size icons) accordingly. This
provides a simple way of working out the percentage you wish to scale a
picture by to get a specific output picture size.