You find the Resize Image Wizard (Resize Image Assistant on the Mac) on the Help menu on the Photoshop menu bar. When selected, the Wizard/Assistant dialog box appears and asks you questions about your intended use for the image. The wizard/assistant then guides you through the image-sizing process. If you happen to choose options that the wizard doesn’t like, you get a warning that your changes are likely to lower your image quality. You can then go back and try another setting.
The Resize Image Wizard is more for beginners and doesn’t offer quite the control that the Image Size dialog box does. In addition, you can’t see all your options on one screen and must continually go back and forth between screens when entering different values.
When you finish changing settings and choosing options, the wizard/assistant creates a new file called Resize Wizard_1 (Resize Assistant 1 on the Mac), leaving your original unharmed. Like any kind of wizard, this one is pretty savvy, but I recommend having a firm understanding of proper output resolution (see the beginning of this chapter for info on that topic) before you use the wizard/assistant. And actually with that firm understanding, you can do manually everything the wizard/assistant can do and more. Remember the old adage, knowledge is power.
Although using the Resize Image Wizard is fine, try to avoid using File➪Automate➪Fit Image. When I see a dialog box having to do with image sizing that only contains two text boxes, it’s an immediate red flag! This command resizes your file as close to your entered dimensions as possible, while maintaining the same proportions. But in order to do so, Photoshop enlarges or decreases your image while leaving the resolution the same. And if you’ve read earlier sections of this chapter, you know this is also called resampling — not a nice thing in image-editing circles.
The Resize Image Wizard is more for beginners and doesn’t offer quite the control that the Image Size dialog box does. In addition, you can’t see all your options on one screen and must continually go back and forth between screens when entering different values.
When you finish changing settings and choosing options, the wizard/assistant creates a new file called Resize Wizard_1 (Resize Assistant 1 on the Mac), leaving your original unharmed. Like any kind of wizard, this one is pretty savvy, but I recommend having a firm understanding of proper output resolution (see the beginning of this chapter for info on that topic) before you use the wizard/assistant. And actually with that firm understanding, you can do manually everything the wizard/assistant can do and more. Remember the old adage, knowledge is power.
Although using the Resize Image Wizard is fine, try to avoid using File➪Automate➪Fit Image. When I see a dialog box having to do with image sizing that only contains two text boxes, it’s an immediate red flag! This command resizes your file as close to your entered dimensions as possible, while maintaining the same proportions. But in order to do so, Photoshop enlarges or decreases your image while leaving the resolution the same. And if you’ve read earlier sections of this chapter, you know this is also called resampling — not a nice thing in image-editing circles.
Resizing Images with the Resize Image Wizard in Photoshop
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