Resizing Images

[shaneaust]

Last week, I lucked out one night and got some reasonably good shots of Saturn with my Kodak C340 digital camera.

I used PaintShop Pro to tart them up a bit, but I am having difficulties in getting Saturn larger in the pics! It came out fairly small in the pics, but by zooming in and modifying them, they looked much better, with more detail in Saturn. But the Zoom function is not permament, I found...

Can anyone suggest how I can get the planet's image to **stay** larger?

TIA

Mick

[Doug]

Have you tried 'save as' instead of 'save'? I don't have PSpro, but it might ignore image size changes unless you specify a new file name, though using the same file name should work too but it is not good practice to overwrite original data.

HNY
Doug

[shaneaust]

Hi Doug and tyhanks for the suggestion - I tried it with no luck...there must be something I'm missing, cuz I'm fairly familiar with PSP and similar apps...frustrating.

HNY to you as well! Stay safe tonight.

[stephenmcnelley]

If it is available to you, punch the image through Force Vision picture editing software, the complete version re-pixelises the shot/shots upon resize and makes them cool again if you provide them in .JPG mode, and preserves them.

[Gama]

I use photoshop CS2, there should be in the the "Image" menu another menu called "Image Size".
Select this and the change from "Pixels" to "%" then change 100% size to 200% or more. This should do it.
Im not sure if your version has these menus, but i assume similarities..

[rogerg]

You want to look for some sort of menu option like "Image Size", "Resample", "Resize", "Stretch/Scew" or the like. Zoom typically refers to just the current view of the image, not the actual image size on disk, as you have found.

I haven't used PaintShop Pro to be able to provide any specifics, only PhotoShop, which is as Gama has said.

Roger.

[Kal]

If you are on a windows machine you can use microsoft paint. Open the image, select the 'image' tab at top and select 'stretch/skew'. With that tool you can stretch to 200% or whatever value you put in. Save the file and you are done.

Perhaps do this first then use paintshop pro to spruce them up a bit next.

[shaneaust]

Many thanks, Andrew! That did the trick.

Mick