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Question about resizing pictures for website
I've started populating my store heavily and in general when I put a picture in my ad I don't choose a large picture but choose a small picture that is shown in the actual catalog in my store when someone sees it for example on a page of featured items or in one of my store categories. Then I try to upload a medium picture that someone sees when they click on the actual item itself.
To make my website look well organized I try my best to have all of the smaller picture be the same size, approximately 100 x 80 and the medium pictures aren't as important but I try to have them around 200 x 250 or slightly larger. In some cases I may use a larger picture as a pop-up image and would use approximately 300 x 400
What I'm wondering is when I get stock photos for items I try to get them close in size but this isn't always the case. Is there an easy way to resize a picture to a custom size that I choose? If I do this would there be any problems with the quality such as a picture looking stretching or the opposite?
What is the best software to use for this? Currently I have the Adobe Creative Suite 3 which includes PhotoShop, Illustrator, and Fireworks. I use primarily Mac OS X in the office but we also have access to an older Windows XP machine but I prefer Mac software. I haven't been able to figure out how to do this with Adobe Photoshop and although I know it may be possible I don't know how hard it is. I'd really be interested in an easy program that would simplly resize to a size I input. This would be helpful since I will be resizing a large number of pictures.
