Examples of resized images

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I simply grabbed my digital camera and set it to take a picture at 1024x768 so that a real-life example of image resizing could be used.

The original image is 1024 x 768 and 215K in size.

original image

Now, we selected 760 maximum size at better quality - and the resized image is 760 x 570 and 49.2K file

Resized image

This time, we selected maximum size 400, and chose the greyscale filter (when we choose a filter, the quality is automatically set to best, regardless of selection) This gives us a 400 x 300 image that is only 12K in size.

Resized image with greyscale Filter

Finally, we selected 25% and the Sepia Filter, and we get a 256 x 192 image that is 6.7K in size.

Resized image with a Sepia Filter applied

When you Create an avatar your photo is not only resized, but cropped to a square.  As we don't know which part of your photo you want to keep, we make 3 different crops and you simply choose which one you want to use.  We selected 200 for the size.

Top or Left crop
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Centre crop
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Bottom or Right Crop
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Using the same Photo, we creaated an avatar 60 by 60 and choose only the centre cropped picture.

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