Resize Images In Fireworks

How To Resize An Image In Fireworks

There are several different ways to resize an image in Fireworks.

Crop The Image

When you crop an image, you are not resizing an image in the conventional way. Cropping an image involves cutting away areas of the image that you don't need. These areas are gone forever. Cropping is useful if the subject of your image is small relative to the background. You can get rid of large areas of boring background by clicking the Crop tool in the toolbar or pressing the keyboard shortcut of C on the keyboard. The cursor will change shape to indicate that the Crop tool is active. Drag out a rectangle over the image. This rectangle represents that area of the image that we will keep; you will lose everything outside the rectangle.

When you are happy with the cropping area, press Enter. The image will be cropped and the size of the canvas adjusts to the new dimensions of the image.

Resize The Image By Eye

The Scale tool allows you to resize an image and guage the scaling manually. Activate the Scale tool by clicking on it in the toolbar and then drag on one of the handles that appear at the corners and halfway along the edges of the image. If you drag on a corner handle you can constrain the proportions of the image, whereas dragging on the handles on the edges allows you to distort the proportions.

Resize Your Image Precisely

The final method that we're going to look at allows you to scale your image to a precise proportion of its original dimensions. This is the method I usually use. With your image selected, click Modify > Transform > Numeric Transform, and the Numeric Transform dialogue box will open. Ensure that Scale is selected (it should be, by default) and then type in the percentage you'd like to scale your image down by into the first input box (for the width). If you have the Constrain proportions box checked (bottom left) then Fireworks will put that percentage into the other input box (for the height). This retains the image's proportions.