There are a number of ways to resize an image on your website, one of these will hopefully help.
Option number 1 - The handles on the image. The image on the right shows how this works. First click the image and 8 white squares and border appear round the image.
Click on any on of these and keep the mouse button held down. Move your mouse and the image will become transparent and start to scale up and down. The corner squares will allow you to scale keeping the aspect ratio the same. Whilst the square on the sides will squash or stretch the image.
Option number 2 -
the image on the left explains this one.
Click the image and you will see two icons appear in the top left of the image. One is a landscape icon. Click this and you will be returned to the screen that looks like the insert screen from previous lessons.
However this time you will see a resize area above the buttons for links etc. Using the slide on the left hand side you can re-size the image in terms of percentage.
It’s important to understand this about images and sizes. When you upload and image, the software produces automatically at least 3 versions of the image. A small thumbnail, a medium image and a large image. It does this so you don’t need to be inserting massive images and re-sizing them to fit. However it does come with a pay off. You can’t enlarge all images you can only make them smaller.
In other words if you decide the thumbnail you inserted isn’t big enough, delete it from the page, click the upload/insert button select the image again and it insert it at a larger size and then resize it a little then. Making small images bigger will lead to a loss in quality – like the image below.
