How do i resize a pic without warping the image?

[korbe]

hi, i can make posters now but i'm having this resizing issue. 

i use paint on win 11.  i bring up a pic. usually the pic has some weird dimensions like 604x617 or whatever

i need em to be 512x1024 or 1024x2048 etc

So in paint, i 'select all'   right click. crop,  then right click resize, then in pixels i try to make it what i want but it always warps the pic!

and if i tell it to 'maintain' then i can't make the pic 512x1024. it has to be 512xwhatever.

UGH!  Driving me NUTS!  how do i fix this? thx

[yoydihesti]

Not sure if this will be of any help. https://sims4studio.com/thread/13227/solved-quality-issues-creating-posters

[Crashdown117]

From my personal experience with image editing, MS Paint (in the respective versions under Win98, XP, 8 and 10) is rather terrible for resizing and cropping existing images. The only way I ever managed to get good results was by setting the height and width of my project at the very beginning, then inserting stuff and making it fit those pre-set dimensions.

 

But if I may, I'd suggest investing a few minutes of your time and familiarizing yourself with some actual image editing tool like GIMP. It might seem like a bit of an overkill at first, but depending on what else you plan to do in terms of creating stuff, it will almost certainly pay off sooner or later.

 

Just as a small example: I did some billboards for my personal use earlier this year and those things only have one texture file containing everything (i.e. both the image you want to see in-game and the texture for the other parts of the billboard). So, I needed to edit one of the existing billboard textures and replace the image in it with mine.

Doing something like this in MS Paint probably would've been a huge pain, but with my near-ancient Photoshop install (still can't believe this old piece runs smoothly under Win10) it was a matter of about 30 minutes and most of that time was spent making sure that the edges of my images aligned perfectly with the edges of the billboard image space. I even went the extra mile and created a "template" with an entirely white image space first to make that aligning step a bit easier.

[Oops19]

You could try https://www.xnview.com/en/ which allows to resize in many ways and to keep or modify the aspect ratio.

Of course you may need to crop something or add a border to change an image to 512x1024 (canvas resize) - this can be done with XnView. Anyhow it has no AI to generate a border which matches the image - it will likely be black.