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By and © Jacqueline Sheppet 2004
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One of the things we do a lot when making layouts with our software is resizing. We resize our photos to fit and elements to make sure they look in proportion to the overall page. Resizing is straight forward in PhotoImpact and quite easy to do. The only tricky part is ensuring that when an item is resized, it is resized with the correct proportions, in other words if you start with an element that is square, for example, after resizing you end up with a square – just a bigger one.
You resize in PhotoImpact using the Transform Tool [Q].
The lock button is an important thing to notice when resizing. By keeping the lock closed, you are essentially locking the height and width ratio of your object. This means you can resize without any fear of distortion.
Click on the object you want to resize. A resizing box appears around it. Move your cursor to the corner of the box and you'll find the cursor changes to a double headed arrow facing diagonally.
Drag the corner of the box until the object is resized and release. You can both reduce and enlarge the object's size in this fashion.
Another way to enlarge or reduce is to enter the pixel width or height in the resizing boxes to the right of the lock button. This is particularly useful if you have a specific size in mind. At 300 dpi, 1 inch is 300 pixels.
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