Resizing Your Images In Elements

Most people need to resize there images and it always causes a lot of confusion so I'm going to try and make it a bit more simpler for you. Ok lets start right at the beginning, digital photos are made up of pixels which are the picture elements. Your camera will determine how many there are in your photo.

If you resize one of you images all you are doing is specifying a new print size which the pixel are spread over, you must remember your not changing the number of pixels in your image. That's the easy bit out of the way, and now this is the bit most people get confused about. If you resample an image in Elements you're adding or removing pixels.

Elements gives you both of these options and they can be found Image > Resize > Image Resize Dialog. If you do this and all you want to do is resize the

image just leave the Resample Image option disabled, like I said before all you are doing here is spreading you pixels over a greater or smaller area.

Some quick notes you should know in the Image Size dialog box. If you enable the resize image option in the Image Size dialog you can just alter the dimensions by the pixel count instead of the size. If your resample image is enabled you'll be presented with a list of resampling methods. I have found that Bicubic does give you the best results, but if your enlarging images make sure you use Bicubic Smoother.