"How to" Guideline series is coordinated by Helen Mongan-Rallis of the Education Department at the University of Minnesota Duluth. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions to improve these guidelines please me at e-mail hrallis@d.umn.edu.

Guidelines for Resizr Image Editing

Purpose of Resizr: Cross platform, online editing of images. Enables you to resize an image and then provides options for saving the resized image, sending to a phone via text message, emailing the mage, and getting the codes to share the image on the web.

Basic steps:

1. Acquire your image (e.g. download from a digital camera, or scan)
2. Go to Resizr.com
3. Select and upload the image::
• Step 1: click on the "browse" button: navigate to where you have saved the original image on your computer, and select the image.
• Step 2: Once you have selected the image, click on the "upload image" button.
  
  
4. Resize image for email or displaying on a web page:
   1. Cropping image: Click on the button next to the word "free" --> then click on the border that appears around the image and drag the borders, as needed, to select only that part of the image that you want to keep
   2. Resize the image by clicking and sliding the black and yellow slider bar (tip: for displaying an image on a web page or in PowerPoint, your image should between 72-93 pixels, sp slide the slider so that your image is less than 150 pixels, as show in the screen shot below.
   3. Select the quality of the image: for an image to be displayed on a web page, low is fine.
   4. When you are satisfied with the size of the resized image, click on the "resize my image" button. (Note: I have not included the step to rotate the image, but if your image needs to be rotated, click on the appropriate button from the rotating options).
   
   
   
   
5. Saving your resized image: Once you have resized the image following the above steps, your resized image will be displayed. To save it, right click (Windows) or holding down the apple key and then click on the picture (Mac) --> then from the drop down menu, choose "save target as" or "save image as" and save the resized image to your computer (rename it so that you know it is the resized image and not the original one).
   
   
   
   
6. Your image is now ready for you to use (e.g. for inserting on a web page or attaching to an email).

See also: Resizing images (explains why to resize and gives links to other options for resizing applications)

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