Resizing Images

[brulaha]

Hi All,

Is there any way to resize images without re-sampling using a specific output? For example, I took a quick screen shot of an image, and wanted to print it to an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper.  Since I wanted decent resolution, I used a 4k monitor and screen shot the entire screen yielding an image at 2726 px by 2056 px.  I wanted to resize this to an 8.5 x 11 output but I can't find a way to do that.  Export only allows for pixel calculations and requires re-sampling.  The resize dialog only allows you to enter dpi which is a frustrating guessing process to achieve the desired result.  There has to be a simpler way.  Photoshop makes this so easy.  I bought this because I'm not down with the subscription model Adobe uses.  Is there something I'm not thinking of or seeing. This basic functionality.  Even if there was a simple online calculator I could see using that, but none of the ones I looked at provide a simple way to determine target dpi based on a constrained output like 8.5 x 11.  If you know of one please share.  

-Thoughtfully frustrated :)

[R C-R]

2726 x 2056 & 8.5 x 11 have different aspect ratios so there is no way to convert one to the other without resampling or cropping.

[brulaha]

Yes your right. Let me ask the question a different way.  When I use the resize dialog, and unchecked re-sample, I lose the ability to edit units and can only edit the DPI.  Since i want to print to an 8.5 x 11, it would be helpful to edit the unit instead of the DPI.  Editing the DPI results in a guessing game to get the desired result. 

Have you found another way to do this, or is there a calculator you use that eliminates the guessing when trying to reduce an image to print on a piece of paper?  In this case I didn't care it wasn't a perfect one to one aspect ratio match.  I just wanted to easily understand my constraining dimension, and then adjust the DPI to give me an output size of roughly 8.5 x 11.  

[walt.farrell]

Your current pixel dimensions , at 300 DPI, are about 6 x 9 inches, I think. That's close enough to 8.5 x 11 that I might just print it and tell Photo to scale to fit during printing.

Or else I'd resize it as close as I could get, and let the resize operation resample. Resampling isn't something bad.

But if you really want to avoid resampling, any calculator can tell you that 2056 px / 8.5 " is about 241 px/inch (aka DPI on the Affinity dialogs).