graphics sizer - NAC (almost)

[Huw Powell]

> I have some jpegs of Audis (and other stuff, and that's the mandatory 
> Audi content) which I need to resize to inch dimensions instead of x by 
> x pixels.

OK... we are totally off topic here, but whatever.

Computer based images are always x by y pixels, it's the only way 
computers work.  Almost any decent image software an "print" an image to 
fit a sheet of paper.

I would imagine your publisher would simply welcome a nice, hi-res copy 
of the image, and they will size it to fit.

That said, why not ask "them" what resolution they want?  let's say they 
say 300 dpi.  Then a, say, 4 x 6 "print" would need to be 1200 x 1800 
pixels.

Now, to the serious.  You should not be working in "jpg", which is a 
terminally lossy format for this work.  You should keep your files in 
BMP or TIF, or some other lossless format.  The files might be huge by 
comparison, but that is because there is no fudging or interpolating 
going on, your image is your image, hard and fast.

jpg is great for the web, where an image that is 800 wide stresses 
peoples monitors.  Compare that to the "4 x 6" print size at 300 dpi above.

I hope this helps somewhat.  Feel free to pmail me with questions.  I 
have no idea what I am talking about, as usual.

I own piles of dirt.

> I need them to 
> be so many inches by so many inches, they are going into a paper 
> publication (something called a "book" - remember them?) not into a web 
> page as HTML.
> 
> I have and have found several image resizers on the net, but the product 
> is always an x by x pixel image, not a physical size.

-- 
Huw Powell

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