Reducing my dimensions to suit requirements (split)

[Kathleen Dale]

I am a complete newby to Affinity and have never used photoshop.

I have recently joined a camera club and they require their images to be 1600 X 1200 pxl . My files tend to be 6226  X 4270 for example.

How do I reduce my dimensions to suit requirements?

 

[Oval]

On 23. September 2019 at 4:06 PM, Kathleen Dale said:

I am a complete newby to Affinity

We all have been … even the developers …   Welcome here!  

On 23. September 2019 at 4:06 PM, Kathleen Dale said:

require their images to be 1600 X 1200 pxl . My files tend to be 6226  X 4270 for example.

How do I reduce my dimensions to suit requirements?

Open the image, simply resize the document (don’t forget to use an adequate resampling algorithm) and crop it with the crop tool. Because there are many (other) ways all details can be found here and in some videos. The bad news is that we still have no preview to check possible results, but we are sure Serif already has the code. (This is was the bugs on Mac forum, so if you have further new questions to a new topic, please in a new thread.)

On 23. September 2019 at 4:06 PM, Kathleen Dale said:

and have never used photoshop.

Photoshop is not discussed here because it is too standard and too complicate. 

[walt.farrell]

4 hours ago, Kathleen Dale said:

I have recently joined a camera club and they require their images to be 1600 X 1200 pxl . My files tend to be 6226  X 4270 for example.

How do I reduce my dimensions to suit requirements?

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

For the future, I would recommend you create a new topic rather than replying to an old topic, especially one that is not exactly what you're asking about.

For now, you first have the problem a 1600x1200 px image has a 1.3333... to 1 aspect ratio, whille your 6226x4270 px image has an aspect ratio of 1.46 or so. So if you really need 1600x1200 you cannot simply resize your image, you need to resize and crop, recomposing your image to the new size.

1. Select the Crop Tool.
2. In the Context Toolbar, for Mode choose Resample.
3. In the next two boxes put 1200px and 1600px if the image is portrait oriented (taller than wide), or 1600px and 1200px if it has a landscape orientation (wider than tall).
4. Set the DPI box to 300 if it isn't already.
5. There will be a crop box over the image. If the corner nodes are not visible, grab a side node and drag it toward the middle of the picture until all 4 edges are within the image.
6. At that point, the crop box has the proper proportion (aspect ratio) for the final image you need to produce.
7. If you place the mouse cursor within the crop box you can slide the box around to compose the image you would like to present. Or, you can drag a corner handle to make the box smaller if that helps with your composition.
8. When you are satisfied with your image composition, press the Apply button. You will then have a 1200x1600 (or 1600x1200) image, at 300DPI, ready for printing.

[Patrick Connor]

@Kathleen Dale

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums  

I have split your question into it's own posts and would like to thank Walt and Oval for their responses.