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resize a picture using Paint

Follow steps in this article to practise.

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Paint is a graphic software that is bundled in windows. Although Paint is not so versatile as photoshop, it needs no license software.

Steps of resize a photo using Paint

Step 1 : Select a photo to resize

Follow steps No 1, 2, 3 (Start -->Accessories-->Paint)

Menu of your Paint may different from this picture because of different version. However, you can use this as a guideline.

Click File and Open to select a picture file.
Step no 4 and 5.



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Step 2 : Resize command

Click Resize (step no 6) to resize a picture



Step 3 : Specific target size

Click Maintain aspect ratio to keep ratio of horizontal length and vertical length. Specify horizontal length and let Paint calculate vertical length or vice versa.

There are 2 methods to spectify target size :-

Method 1 : Percentage (%)
The original size is 100 %
Specify what percentage the target size is. For example target size is 50%. The resized picture is a half of the original picture.

If horizontal length is reduced 50%, vertical length is also reduced 50% to maintain aspect ratio. So specify 50 of Horizontal then Paint calculate 50 of Vertical.



Method 2 : Pixels
Specify target pixels of vertical length or horizontal length.
Original horizontal length is 1,620 pixels and vertical length is 1,080 pixels.
Specify target horizontal length as 700 pixels then vertical length is calculated as 466 pixels to maintain aspect ratio.



Step 4 : Save resized picture

Click File and Save as
to save a resized picture (step no 7 and 8)

save to a different file name to make sure that the original file is not overwritten.

Follow steps in this article to practise.

Click here to download picture for practice.

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