I have an original image, that I'm trying to replace with a new image. The original .png file shows, in the properties that it's 128 x 42, and it's easy to see on a web page. To replace it I have opened the replacement file (png), which is 612 x 792, in IrfanView, and resized it to 128 x 42, but when I do that I can barely see the image it's so small. What am I doing wrong? Something is not right. I guess it would be appropriate to say What's wrong with this picture? Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks
Since your original image is 128 x 42, and the image you want to resize is 612 x 792, you won't be able to resize the second image to the dimenisons of the first without having the height and width be way out of proportion. You'd need to make your second image 128 x 165 for it to look right.
That and, you may want to check your zoom. sometimes on a resize your zoom gets screwed up. Even still, without a crop and good sharpen filter, any raster image that's scaled down 500% is going to look a bit wonkey.
try photoshop. I used some filter for resize in it..hmm.. but there are few other softwares available as well. look on www.download.com
Not a filter, but close: IMAGE>>Image-Size>> -input values- ("constrain proportions" must be checked, otherwise you may warp your proportions.)