How do you resize an image that is too large or too small?

There are three typical ways to change the size of an image.

1 If you click on the picture once, handles appear on the corners of the image.  They are usually square markers.  When you move your cursor over them it changes to a double arrow so that you may grab the corners and push or pull the image to change its size.

2.You could change the HTML code directly.  For an image HTML will read something like this:

<img src="ManComputer.jpg" height="200" width="200" alt="picture of man at computer with pie graph on screen, pencil and paper in hand">

If you change the numbers for the "height" and "width", the size of the picture displayed on the computer screen will change.  Bigger numbers will increase the size of the image; smaller numbers will decrease the size of the image.

3. If you have image manipulation software available, you can actually change the number of pixels in the picture.

• Open the image in your software (Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark Xpress, etc.)

• Follow the manual directions for changing image size.

• Save the image in its new form.

• Insert the image into your document, presentation, or web page, whatever you are working on.

• Save the project.

Authored by Lora K. Kaisler 2003