How to resize an image?

[Klaus Major]

Hi

> Hallo Claus,
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking for an elegant way to resize (shrink) an image.
>>
>> Changing the width and the height only affects the display.
>> Saving this image to file results in the original image with the 
>> original size.
>> So this won't do.
>>
>> Has anyone an elegant way to save a thumnail of an image?
>
> There are probably 2 (or more ;-) ways to do this...
>
> 1. Use Trevors excellent QT External to create a preview image of ANY 
> size...
> 2. Built-in solution: no external required :-)
>
> Size your original image as you like (lock loc!)
> Create a new image and script:
> ...
> set the width of img "the new one" to the widht of img "the original 
> one"
> set the height of img "the new one" to the heigth of img "the original 
> one"
> set the imagedata of img "the new one" to the imagedata of img "the 
> original one"
> ...
> Now you have a new image that you can export as jpg or do whatever you 
> want with :-)

Solution number 3:

...resize your image and take a snapshot of that region, if possible...


Best

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de