Resizing An Ugly Car Picture

 In this post I will be displaying how to resize/resample a picture in photoshop. This is important because in order to get the highest quality picture you must make sure the pixels per inch matches your purpose (the screen or if you will be printing). If you simply drag the corners in indesign it will distort your image.

Here is the original image I used:

This is a good example to use because it has some detail you need to be able to read (the lettering) but it isn't too complex where any way you tried to fix it wouldn't do the trick.

The photo above is a resampled version of the original, with a resolution of 72 pixels per inch, and the width linked to the length, changing the width to 5 (the image is a square). I used the bicubic smoother to make the details more prominent.

The last picture is literally a square inch, with 72 pixels per inch. It is reduced from the original size. I linked the height and width and made the width 1 inch.

As you can see, size makes a huge difference!! It changes the quality of the picture. Be careful of going too large or small!