February 7, 2010

How to resize and crop image in windows 7

In my site, you might find some wallpapers are just too large for your desktop or their size just doesn't fit into your screen because you have a wide screen or vertical screen. No matter whatever reason you want to resize or crop your image. In windows 7, the easiest way you can do to edit your wallpaper is as follow:

1. Right click the image you want to edit, and select edit:
2. After that, you will be in windows 7 "Paint" by default. Then select resize, you can resize according to percentage or by pixel. Depend on your preferences, i usually do it in pixel mode.
3. Assume you edit in pixel, change the horizontal pixel count to match your screen resolution
Screen resolution sample: 1024 x 768 , 1280x800, 1600x1200 and so on. (bolded = horizontal width pixel)
4. That's all for resize part. If the image still doesn't fit in your screen. You will need to crop it. Same as above instruction. Open your image to edit in windows 7 pain. Then left click and hold it on the point indicate as below at the edge. Drag the point and you can crop the part of image which is excess.
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1 comments:

Dilliprasad said...

I'm on the fence about this, while more customization is good, I have a feeling this is a "in-progress" update, it just feels incomplete and half-way there.
We use badge layout for apps on design approvals (visual projects), so the image being displayed is important. Old layout "feels like" it had larger images,
maybe because the images were cropped more loosely so it's easier to tell which project it was at quick glance. Now the image is cropped closer, making it
harder to scan thru at quick glance. I find myself needing to click into the project more often than usual. Which makes the whole user experience less
efficient.
I have a couple suggestions that might make it work better:
1. Increase the height of the window the cover image is being displayed.
2. Let us to choose which image to be displayed as "cover" (like how Pinterest handles cover images of each board, was hoping for this for a long time)
3. Let us adjust which part of the image to show and how tight or loose the crop is (with a fixed window, let us move the image around and maybe enlarge or
shrink it to control what shows thru the window. Pinterest does a limited form of this, which is very useful in making the cover image relevant)
4. Allow Cover Image to be ordered in different hierarchy (currently every element can be ordered differently except the Cover Image, it seems to be stuck
in the 2nd spot, would like the option to set it on another spot in the layout. This one seems like an easy fix, since you guys allow that for every other
element already)

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