I am just sooo frustrated, I need some serious help. I've read this THREAD and this THREAD. I use Corel PhotoPaint 10 and usually do pretty well with it. I'm having such a hard time bringing my images to fit the dimensions while keeping the focus/sharpness. From the thread, I've got the fixed crop marquis - which has helped me tremendously - so THANKS! But I still end up 'resampling' in Corel. The only other command I see is paper size, which so far is not what I need. Most recently I've been taking my photos in Tiff - but not the largest size. Because I don't have a tiff here at work, I'm going to use a jpeg.
- Out of the camera = jpeg 2272 x 1704 @72 dpi (w 31.555" x h 23.666")
- Adjustments - any adjustments needed
- Cropping - using the fixed cropping marquis, I enter the dimensions I need (I used an excel spreadsheet and reduced the 2272 x 1704pxls by percentage to get the dimensions ie at 25% reduction = 1704 x 1278) This let's me crop and keep the correction shape of the marquis.
- Now my image is 1704 x 1278 pxls
THIS IS WHERE I NEED HELP
- What I've been doing....Resample command; select pixels, enter in 640 x 480. Obviously, when I use the resampling function in Corel, I'm losing quality. But I am just not getting it.
Is Photoshop really that much better than Corel? I'm very comfortable using Corel - I've tried Photoshop, but I find that I'm not as fluent as I am in Corel. Do I really need to learn Photoshop?
If anyone uses Corel, could you give me a step-by-step to convert a 2272 x 1704 pxl image to a 640 x 480...PLEASE, I'm begging.
THANKS!!
Ruthann
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