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Published: 2006-06-18 22:23:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 5426; Favourites: 64; Downloads: 405
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Okay... so I've been noticing--especially when running my recent contest-- that some people don't seem to know how to resize images. A common misconception, I think, it that people believe they don't have a program capable of handling resizing. Well since MOST people have MS Paint (Mac users don't, but I'm Macs are a little more graphics savvy so you probably know you can use your art programs to resize images anyways) then most people do have a program. Even if they're not running photoshop or something like that.When I had somebody tell me that they didn't have a resizing program, I asked if they had MS Paint. Then they told me that it doesn't work as well.. so that's when I decided to make this tutorial. Hopefully it'll be helpful to some of you!
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Do you know how I can make pics bigger without loosing good quality because I can't figure out how to do that, so if you can please help me out.
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I'm afraid you can't. Not unless you're using vector graphics... Images with pixels are called "raster" graphics. Since they are made of a bunch of tiny dots, it's okay to down size them, because the pixels only get more compact, tighter.. if you blow them up, though, the pixels get large and their borders get fuzzy. That's why you lose quality when you make them bigger. There are certain things you can do to a raster image after you blow it up that can kind of make the quality a little better like using combinations of sharpen filters in photoshop, but the quality will not be as good as the original. You may be able to find tutorials on a good way to fix the quality of a blown-up image somewhere, though. Anyway, Vector graphics don't use pixels, they use "paths" which is basically a boundary which the program fills with a color. You can resize the boundary, therefore, and the color will still just fill to the edges of it so the quality of the color's edges will always look the same. Programs like Flash, Illustrator and CorelDRAW use vectors. But you can't turn raster art or photographs into vector without "drawing" over it in a vector program.. or using some fancy software, but I'm not sure if anything like that exists. Anyway, hope that helps, let me know if you have any other questions :]
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It took me forever to find the right tutorial-...it was you.
THANK YOUUUU.!!!!
SO MUCH.
Now I can do my room meme~~~ =^^=
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Thank you! Now I can hodl this link in my pocket and give it out at will to thsoe in need!
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Yay, now maybe the people I watch will utilize this!! Cause it's always HUUUUUUUUUUGEEEEEEE and eats my screen. And I'm still disappointed that I can't make things bigger in MSPaint without it going all mleah...
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OH MY. Thank you SO MUCH for making this. Now my pictures wont come out crappy when I try to resize them. 
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Nice tutorial. I appreciate it, not because I need help resizing images, but because you shine some light on MS Paint. 
Good job.
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I agree. I use MS Paint as my primary program by choice. It's a mighty program in many ways. Kudos to the tutorial creator for showing love to my favorite program.
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... I can'T believe I actually learned something about mspaint! o_o wow.
thank you!
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hehe, you're welcome! 
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Heehee 
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There is people that cant figure this out? wow im not as stupid as i though :scocked:
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Ah yes...the amount of times it gets annoying trying to see a full-sized image that's such a stupidly large size...and re-sizing is so easy, even - like you state here, if you don't have a fancy program to do the job. 
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shweet, glad it helps :3
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i kwno That...i wanted ot knwo how to make small images BIG withotu allt he pixel-y-ness
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the short answer would be you can't. Not unless it's a vector image.
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yah, and paint doesn't handle that.
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Actually you don't have to go back and change the file type, just change it when you save it, it saves alot of time that way.
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I think it depends on what you're working with in the first place. I didn't have the option of saving the file as anything other than a BMP the first time.
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Usually most computers do.
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Funny.. 'cause I tried it on a few other computers today and it still didn't work.
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I do it at school and at home, I can do it on just about any comp I try, I don't know why it doesn't work for you.
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well, like I said, I believe it has something to do with what you start with. 
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To check, What are you talking about exactly?
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lol. If you use the rectangular marquee tool to drag a box around the portion of the image you want to cut out, then go to "Edit" >> "Copy To..." and save the file. You can only save as one of 4 varieties of BMP.
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Oh that's probably why.
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Is that not what you were talking about? Because that was the only other time I "saved" it in the tutorial aside from when I went back to change the file type.
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I was talking about something else.
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Changing the file type when you save.
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right, but that was covered in the tutorial... =\
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Kewl... now if you could show me how to color with MS paint without killin the pic, then I'd be REALLY impressed ^_^
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that would be ironic XD I never use MS Paint, I just figure it out for you guys 
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Ooo! I didn't know that! That's pretty awesome! ^_^
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Thats very helpful to people who don't know how to resize on MS paint ^o^ I already did, but hey! I like reading these things xD
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Yay! Hehe, yah, everyone loves tutorials.. even me. They're fun to look at for some reason. I think it's the pictures
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Oh my God do I feel like one of the stupidest persons on this planet.
Of course, why didn't I think of that?! 8D
Thankyouthankyouthankyou! XD
I will get started with a-resizin' now. O_O
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