How to resize a personal picture to fit a specific

size
By: Vivek Diora

Pictures are almost everywhere, weather it is clip art from Microsoft’s collection or a
snap shot of an amazing landscape. Digital images come in all sizes and the
requirements for sharing these works of art on certain mediums can be limiting.
Adobe Photoshop CS4 is an image editing software that can help immensely to
solve this problem. As English 202 students, we must keep a Personal Blog, which is
to be personalized. We will focus specifically on how to resize a banner for your
blog.

What you need:

- A picture to resize

- Computer with Adobe Photoshop CS4

Instructions:
1. Open up Adobe Photoshop CS4. The main boot up screen is shown in Figure
1.

Figure 1: Start up screen of Adobe Photoshop CS4

Note: If using Penn State University Computer, complete step 1 by the following
additional steps.

 Click StartAll ProgramsDigital ImagingAdobe Photoshop CS4Adobe

Photoshop CS4

2. Click on File  New on the top left hand corner.

3. In the pop-up window, choose pixels as the unit, and 905 x 170 as shown in
Figure 2. Choose 300 pixels/inch in the Resolution option. Press OK when done.

Figure 2: New window prompt. 905x 170 pixels

4. There should be a white banner like canvas. As shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: New 905x 170 pixel canvas

5. Click on File  Open on the top left hand corner, and open your chosen
image.

6. Click on the Move tool, located on the left hand toolbar, first tool that looks
like a cursor. Shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4: Selection of the move tool.

7. Drag the opened image tab out into the middle of the screen and release, as
shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5: Dragging the opened image layer out of the

tabs.

8. Your screen should look like Figure 6.

Figure 6: Screenshot of dragged layer

9. Click with the cursor on the middle of your personal image and drag your
image into the white banner canvas, and release. Drag the image tab back
into the tabs title bar (opposite of Step 5) or exit out of it.

10.The image is now in the new canvas. Click on Edit Free transform, or
keyboard shortcut CTRL+T.

NOTE: Holding down Shift while resizing will keep the image aspect
ratio, and keep the image from being distorted.

11.The image can now be resized and rotated to get the desired part of the
picture in the banner canvas. The image used in this example is being
rotated in Figure 7.

 To rotate or resize: Click on any of the small boxes located on the

perimeter of the image.

 To move image: Click on the image and drag in the desired direction of
movement.

Figure 3: New 905x 170 pixel canvas

Figure 7: Image being rotated to fit into banner canvas

12.When finished, hit ENTER.

13.Click on File  Save As. Name your new file, and make sure to click on JPEG
or desired format in the format drop down menu, as shown in Figure 8.

Figure 8: “Save As” Window

14. Congratulations! You have successfully resized an image to
share on a Personal Blog.