Posted on 07/15/2006 9:51:15 AM PDT by rudy45
I have a JPG image of my daughter. When I send it to be printed as a 4 x 6 photo, her head is too big (I want distance from chin to top of head to be 1", for passport purposes).
How can I get a smaller head on the finished 4x6 photo? Should the photo service be able to do it?
I tried the following idea, but ran into problems: - inserted the photo image into PowerPoint. - put a rectangle frame around the image - grouped the image and the rectangle, copied both and pasted both into Paint.
My idea was to create a new image, consisting of the original image plus the border. When both print on the final 4x6 photo, of course, the image of my daughter will be smaller (think of it as reverse cropping).
The problem is that when I paste both images (or even just the photo image alone) the image becomes horribly distorted/degraded. What is going on?
How can I get a smaller head on the photo? Thanks.
You will need to use a photo editing program for resizing if you want to have decent results. You can use that program for adding the border too.
You could go to a professional photographer and say you want a picture for a passport. They will take a picture and print it to the right size.
Image Resizer
This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click.
I have a feeling you're doing more than this though. So, maybe it'll help someone!
This is a pretty good freeware view/edit package. It'll allow you to resize, crop, etc. to your heart's content.
http://www.irfanview.com/
Thanks everyone. I forgot a convenient feature of PowerPoint: the ability to save objects as native images. In other words, that new image, with the rectangle border around the original photo image is itself savable as JPG. I think all I have to do now is tell the photo people that I DO want the border to print. The effect, therefore, is to "shrink" the image, including the head.
THe question remains: when I copy an image from PowerPoint into Paint, the image deteriorates markedly. What's going on? Thanks.
If you PM me, you can send the image and I'll do it for you, assuming that the original is good quality.
http://www.pbase.com/tsiya/root
http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/
Picasa automatically fits your pictures perfectly onto the expensive paper used by your home printer. It’s finally easy to print wallets, 4×6, 5×7, full pages, more sizes and even (hallelujah!) more than one picture on a page.
Sounds like you need a head shrinker. LOL
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