Seeking software for scanning old paper photos into digital format. I'm hoping to find something that will automatically crop to borders of the photo so I don't need to manually crop every one in Photoshop. Bonus points if it will automatically resize all the scanned images into a specific resolution size. [more inside]
posted by cuddles.mcsnuggy on May 30, 2009 - 5 answers

In Photoshop 5.5 I was able to create an action to resize a layer/selection to a maximum width (say, 200 px). I could quickly select objects of varying initial sizes, run the action, and voila, everything fit neatly in a column. I've had Photoshop CS4 for over a week and can't figure out how to replicate this; my resizing seems to always be happening as a percent of the original size. [more inside]
posted by amtho on Feb 8, 2009 - 17 answers

My mother gave me a pearl ring (one white and one black natural pearls on a simple silver band, can't find a close match online) to give to my fiance. It's incredibly small, and I would absolutely need to have it resized to fit her finger, by at least a half size, and as much as a whole size. What would that cost, and given the ring, is it worth it? It's from about 1970 or so. I'm in Chicago, is there any place that you can recommend?
posted by Oktober on Dec 25, 2008 - 9 answers

Can my unusual eternity band be resized? [more inside]
posted by pyjammy on Jun 23, 2008 - 5 answers

How do I resize a very large image to a smaller size yet keep text detail legible? [more inside]
posted by sprocket87 on May 9, 2008 - 13 answers

On my external monitor (dual-monitor setup with a laptop), "maximized" windows do not take up the entire screen. How can I fix this? [more inside]
posted by DMan on May 7, 2008 - 6 answers

When I click the icon to make my current window fill the screen, it makes the window bigger than the screen - three of the sides align but on the right hand side the scroll bar and red X are off the screen. [more inside]
posted by meech on May 6, 2008 - 9 answers

Crazy Wordpress plugin request: A way to automatically resize and autocrop images and place them into a post without manual uploading - just providing an image url from elsewhere on the web. [more inside]
posted by Unsomnambulist on Feb 11, 2008 - 8 answers

I have a video (here it is) that is 240 x 320 px. Youtube resizes it when I upload it, expanding the width and making it distorted. How can I easily change the video so that is the right dimensions for Youtube?!
posted by wibbler on Dec 28, 2007 - 5 answers

Resizing/renaming images with PHP and keeping only the thumbnail [more inside]
posted by B(oYo)BIES on Dec 16, 2007 - 6 answers

I'm trying to make a flash file scale to the width of a div. Friends, Romans, Actionscript People, how do I make this happen? [more inside]
posted by Mayor Curley on Dec 7, 2007 - 11 answers

I need a formula or actual php code to generate a new height and width that will constrain the image between a maximum height and a maximum width while retaining the correct proportions of the original image. [more inside]
posted by sjarvis on Aug 13, 2007 - 10 answers

WordpressFilter: I'd like to upload an image, resize it to 3 different sizes, cache the thumbnails, and grab the URL of the cached images using some kind of [?php thumb_1(); ?] or [?php thumb_2(); ?] template tag within the loop. Am I crazy? [more inside]
posted by theiconoclast31 on Jun 25, 2007 - 3 answers

What's the best way to resize 400 digital pictures? [more inside]
posted by kmtiszen on Jun 12, 2007 - 17 answers

An unlucky series of partition moves, copies and resizes has led to GPartEd saying my NTFS partition is one size, but windows thinking it's another. What the Christ? Seemingly impossible screenshots and [more inside]
posted by datacenter refugee on Apr 22, 2007 - 9 answers

Does it exist? A Thunderbird extension for attachments that let's me re-size (shrink) photos as they are attached--on an as-needed basis? [more inside]
posted by wogbat on Apr 16, 2007 - 4 answers

Can anyone help me find a women's ring like this or this in a size ten? Steel is difficult to resize, so I don't know if I could just buy it and take it to a jeweler. I tried on the men's version and it is too thick and bulky.
posted by sian on Nov 1, 2006 - 5 answers

I have all my travel photos (about 10gigs) in a nice easy-to-use file structure that makes sense to me. I want to make a copy of it all with relatively low-res photos (~40kb/pic) and maintain the folder hierarchy for use with a PDA. I have irfanview and photoshop if that helps. I'm looking for a batch solution to do it all at once--it is a lot of folders. (Windows XP)
posted by wogbat on Aug 21, 2006 - 8 answers

While trying to install Ubuntu Linux, I used their installer's included partitioner(gparted) to try to resize my NTFS windows XP partition. In doing so I ran afoul of this bug. [more inside]
posted by apathy0o0 on Aug 5, 2006 - 5 answers

Word image resize fuzziness - can this be avoided? Wanting to put photographs in a document for professional printing. [more inside]
posted by asok on Aug 2, 2006 - 10 answers

Photoshop question about resizing images... [more inside]
posted by mushroom_tattoo on Mar 18, 2006 - 10 answers

I have a 1024x768 resolution. When I run programs which are native to 800x600, instead of stretching to fit the whole screen, they show in 1024x768, but in a small box in the middle of my screen with a huge black border. The same thing happens when I manually change my resolution to 800x600 - resolution stays the same, but the viewable area shrinks, leaving a small rectangle in the middle and a large blank space around it. How can I fix this? [more inside]
posted by djgh on Jan 29, 2006 - 8 answers

Formula to resize an image (in PHP) so that the resulting file is roughly a certain size in bytes? [more inside]
posted by staggernation on Jan 12, 2006 - 8 answers

PhotoshopFilter: How does one add resolution to an image? My current image size is 3'w x 2'h at 100dpi. The finished image needs to be roughly 10' x 7.5' (possibly bigger) at 100dpi. If I just scale it up or add dpi, I'll have noticable pixelization. [more inside]
posted by fandango_matt on Oct 7, 2005 - 31 answers

im looking for a free, and simple program to crop and resize photos, then optimize for the web. [more inside]
posted by Tryptophan-5ht on Sep 8, 2005 - 12 answers

What's the absolute best (as in quality) way to resize a digicam image for viewing on the web? [more inside]
posted by deadfather on Aug 23, 2005 - 12 answers

So, I've bitten off more than I can chew. I've been handed a 60mb VOB file of a television commercial that I want to post to the website of said company. [more inside]
posted by jmevius on Mar 7, 2005 - 8 answers