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So ive been playing around with my digital camera a little bit and i have taken a couple of nice shots that i would like to use as my desktop background. I have a 22" monitor (1680 x 1050 ) and the pics i have taken are at the max resolution the camera will do ( 2595 x 1944 ) and i wish to resize the picture to 1680 x 1050 without altering the image at all. Is there software that will do this that is freely available?

this is one of the pics i have taken btw, i love the colours. (just taken today in my garden)
http://i36.tinypic.com/qzon7d.jpg
er, when i upload the photo to tinypic its showing up as 1600 x 1200. great now im even more confused :)
 
I personally like Paint.net. It's a very good image editor for us regular joes who aren't hardcore photographers/image tweakers. I've been using it for a while now and it's good enough for me when I want to tweak a picture that I took. It can do alot of things, including changing the resolution....I don't think it has the capability to increase the resolution of an image but it can definitely reduce it.


http://www.paint.net/
 
One thing to keep in mind:
Your screen is widescreen and your picture is not. You are forced to make a decision between these three options:

1.) Resize to 1680 wide and crop the top and bottom until it's 1050 tall, or
2.) Resize to 1680 wide and squeeze/compress the top and bottom.
3.) Resize to 1050 tall and accept the fact that there will be black vertical stripes to the left and right of your wallpaper (which leaves black room for desktop icons if you want them off your picture).

Try it each way and pick your choice. Just remember to save a copy of the original (with a different file name) so that you can always go back and start again.
 
thanks a lot guys :) ill try out all the programs mentioned. and swingdjted, i think i will resize to 1050 tall so i have some blank space for icons
 
I was at work where I couldn't see the image (because of filters) when I last posted but see it now. That is some nice macro work - what gear and settings did you use for that picture?
 
Paint.NET FTW. I showed my fiance a few things with it and she loves it too now. Crazy it's less than a 2 meg download.
 
swingdjted said:
I was at work where I couldn't see the image (because of filters) when I last posted but see it now. That is some nice macro work - what gear and settings did you use for that picture?
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hey thanks man, i appreciate it a lot :D i actually dont know a lot about the camera, its a sony cybershot DSC-T3. 5.2 megapixel. All i did with it settings wise was make sure it was on the maximum resolution possible and hit the auto-macro button.

here are a few more pics ive taken. im actually getting into it quite a lot, its pretty cool to try and get some awesome pics

http://i33.tinypic.com/2i2skm.jpg
http://i37.tinypic.com/33k3jnr.jpg
http://i33.tinypic.com/2j0gn75.jpg
http://i33.tinypic.com/1zf057k.jpg

edit: ive just noticed a black spot on the tip of one of the purple flowers petals and its on all the pictures. woot! a dead pixel!!!!! oh well, not bad for a free camera :D
 
its all about the gimp

or if it is just image resize gnome nautilus has a great extension where you select all the images right-click choose re-size and set the new dimentions and it goes and does it
 
Windows Power Toys (free)...there is an "Image Resizer" that works well, right from the right click menu.
 
^It pisses me off - the powertoys don't work in Vista

Again, nice macro work.

On the topic of the dead pixel (or pixels), an extra step can fix that. Find any photo editor with "clone painting" and you'll be able to get rid of that spot. Some programs might have different names for it, but that's the term I'm familiar with.

You can use the same feature to repair old photos that have been scuffed, creased, or torn.
 
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