Knowing how to resize images is as important as knowing how to crop them. Why? Well, in most cases, you might need to change the size of your images before sharing them online. Some websites and social media platforms have their own size requirements. If you don’t follow them, your images might not get uploaded or their quality might get noticeably worse.
These days, pretty much everybody knows about Canva. It’s an online image editor that can provide you with lots of creative freedom. It has an intuitive interface and an amazing selection of various templates and design elements. It’s a perfect choice for beginners, amateurs and professionals.
Before we get into why you’d want to resize your pictures, let’s talk about what image size actually is. Digital images produced by cameras and smartphones consist of pixels. In the world of photography, resolution is the number of pixels an image contains. Naturally, the higher the resolution the better the quality of a photo. But at the same time, if your image contains a lot of pixels, its file size will also be quite large; in case you don’t know what a file size is, it’s the amount of bytes your file takes up in your device’s memory.
The majority of people tend to think that if they need to resize an image in Photoshop without quality loss, they can only make it smaller. Reducing the size of an image is, indeed, easier, because all Photoshop needs to do is to remove a handful of pixels. This process is usually careful and precise, which is why the image quality is barely affected.