resizing

hi, im new to photography and ive tried to put a photo on and it got turned down because it was distorted. im just wondering how to resize my image to 0.95mb and also get the pixels to 1024 and 1600 without making the photo distorted. any help will be appreciated.

Hi Jamie,

what photo editing software do you use?

Jamie, are you sure that's why the photo was rejected?

The reason that I ask is that I looked back at your Screening history and distorted was not mentioned in the screening communication.

As a beginner both Michael and I would recommend that you should use 1024 pixels wide, you can get away with a lot more mistakes at 1024 than you can at 1600 pixels.

Have a look at this on the old Forum

http://forums.airplane-pictures.net/index.php?/topic/508-resize-images-in-elements/

and maybe even this

http://forums.airplane-pictures.net/index.php?/topic/635-preparing-your-images-for-uploading-to-ap-part-1/

There is plenty of help in the old Forum is you know where to look!

what software would you recommend to use?

For a beginner who wants to eventually use the full version of Photoshop then Photoshop Elements will do the job quite nicely.

GIMP is a free photo editor program that is every bit as good as the full version of Photoshop.

There are lots of tutorials out there for Elements and a few for GIMP.

(Me I'm using Photoshop CS3, which P picked up for a song somewhere, it does the job that I want to do.)

thanks for all the help. much appreciated