

Instead, simply type in the desired width in the box as a pixel count:

A 50% reduction produces a width that’s 647px. More interestingly, you can change the specific pixel count to a percentage, in case that’s more how your mind works:Īs soon as I type in “50″ on the height percentage, the width in pixels is instantly changed. Now you’ll be presented with a fairly large and complex dialog box, but in fact you only need to pay attention to the top segment, as shown here:Īt this point you can indeed enter a specific pixel count for the width or height (if you don’t have the lock bar between the measurements, btw, there’s a checkbox on the page labelled “Proportional”.

To shrink or reduce the image to a specific size - I’ll use a specific width of 600px, choose “Scale…” from the menu: Launch the freshly downloaded GraphicConverter, open the image file, and you’ll see something like this:Ī nice colorful picture, but it’s too darn big. That’s a bit less than 50% of the current size. Let’s say we need to reduce it to no more than 600px wide. To start, grab a copy from Lemkesoft’s Web site.Īs you can see in the “More Info” area, this image is 1294×862. Wholeheartedly recommend GraphicConverter as it’s the program I’ve used to edit graphics for After that, you’ll want to pay the few dollars and get a license. It’s shareware, so you can grab it and use it for free for a limitedĪmount of time. Photograph or other graphical image’s size on the Mac by demonstrating the great sharewareĪpplication GraphicConverter. Shown in a size that’s 500 pixels across, the image is really 5x what it needs to be, and shouldīe reduced so that it’s (far) faster for users to load.īut, as you say, how do you do that? Today I’m going to show you how to reduce a picture,

That’s 2500 pixels across, and it definitely will be scaled so people can see it. Of the site in sizes no more than 500 pixels across. Those that are greater than HDTV resolution, even when they’re going to be displayed as part There are a number of online sites that will let you upload ridiculously large image files, even
