Reduce image without cropping

[Jodie]

Hi, is it possible to reduce an image/photo without cropping?   I often need this feature for an e-commerce store and instagram and seem to spend hours working it out.  I'm sure its not hard and appreciate any help.

Thanks

[NotMyFault]

Welcome to the forum.

Can you explain what should get reduced:

• file size
• document size in pixel?
• it would be nice to get an example image before / after showing what you are intending.

[Jodie]

Thanks for your response!

This is a screenshot of my Jpeg image 2981 x 2467.   Facebook Shop requires the size to be  1080 x 810px.   When I attempt to resize via export with Affinity or resize with iPhoto, etc, it always ends up cropping important aspects of the image - so that I'm left with a dog without ears!   I'm hoping to be able to shrink or reduce the 'actual px size' of image to suit requirements of Shopify and FB/Insta shops without sacrificing important features due to cropping.

I apologise if this is a silly question, it's probably the simplest thing to do...

Kindest

Jodie

 

[Pšenda]

2 minutes ago, Jodie said:

2981 x 2467.   Facebook Shop requires the size to be  1080 x 810px.

The aspect ratio of the original and the resulting image is not the same! So you either have to crop the image (one side) or you have to distort the image. Or the resulting size must be different (1080x894) to maintain the aspect ratio.

Menu Document, Resize Document, Unlock Aspect Ratio, enter 1080 and 810 to Size.

The dog has ears, but the picture is distorted.

[GarryP]

You didn’t say which Affinity application you were using (can often be quite important) but my attached video shows one quick method which can be used in any of the applications. You can move/resize the original image however you want but the quality of the export may vary if you resize it.

There will be other methods.

Note: Make sure that you align the rectangle to whole pixels (no fractions) which is why I used Force Pixel Alignment at the start.

Note: Make sure you use Selection Only as the export area.

[Jodie]

Amazing thank you Garry, that's really helpful.   I have the Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Application.

[GarryP]

You’re welcome.

Thanks for giving the extra information.

With Photo you probably have more options, e.g. the Crop Tool, but I’ll leave it to the experts to tell you how to use that best.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Jodie said:

that's really helpful.

But note that it is basically just another way of cropping, which you said you didn't want to use.

[JimmyJack]

Cropping a bit of the bottom isn't too bad in this particular case.
But, If absolutely no cropping can occur, how about adding a decorative border to fill in the "extra" space.

Both of these are 1080x810: cropped (ears intact) & no crop w/ border.