use XPE to resize a photo within Xtreme?

[YourMum]

Right click on a bitmap in the bitmap gallery and select XPE though, and the bitmap opens at the 'resized' size.

When I do this, all that happens is the XPE opens with the image in it. Clicking the tick leaves me where I was - no image inserted into the document.

[Daniel]

Yes, the same for me - the point I was making was that the size *is* recorded somewhere, even if not used in X1/Xtreme.

I think that rather than the problem being the resized image isn't inserted into the X drawing, it is that the Resize button should only be present when XPE is loaded as a standalone app because only then does it have any affect.

Why unresized bitmaps sometimes look poor in X1/Xtreme though - I don't know. They don't always seem to, but I don't know what tirggers them to sometimes and not others. I'm sure there is a pattern, perhaps based on filesize or available memory?

(We practically could continue this conversation by opening our windows and shouting - I'm just 5 miles from Watford)

[YourMum]

I thought it might have been something to do with the "smooth" options either globally (in options) or for the bitmap itself, but it apears that this option only applies when a bitmap is scaled UP, not down!

You must have a louder voice than I do My sis used to live in Ealing, so been round those parts a bit...

[Arlen_Albert]

I'm afraid to disappoint you all guys, but it seems to me that so-called 'Resize' that you've ment is nothing else than 'ZOOM'. It just zooms the picture so that you could see your edits better. Just to see but not to apply to it. If you want to resize your image perfectly than use PhotoZoom Professional application to perform S-Spline resizing algorithm upon your image. This IS the best known resizing algorithm today, I think. It works wonders... Uuuuuuhhhh

[gwpriester]

I'm afraid to disappoint you all guys, but it seems to me that so-called 'Resize' that you've ment is nothing else than 'ZOOM'. It just zooms the picture so that you could see your edits better. Just to see but not to apply to it. If you want to resize your image perfectly than use PhotoZoom Professional application to perform S-Spline resizing algorithm upon your image. This IS the best known resizing algorithm today, I think. It works wonders... Uuuuuuhhhh

You have to save the image and then check the Current Size radio button.

YourMum - Part of the problem with Xtreme is if the photo is not screen resolution it looks unsharp, but this is the display and not the image. Let's say the image you have imported is 300dpi. At screen resolution it will not look good. But if you zoom to around 300% the image will look much better.

If you are going to be viewing the image on a web page, then convert the image to bitmap (Create Bitmap Copy) at 96dpi. If you look at both images side by side, the 96dpi image will look a lot better. But if you print the two images on a high resolution printer, the 300dpi image will be much better.

Gary