can i resize photos in iPhoto?

Upsizing an image is not pointless. Youtube insisted that my image be 2560 x 1440 as a banner for my site. So I needed to upsize slightly to fit their mandate. As I stated iPhoto should be able to do that. Preview did it. Photo editing software should not restrict you in how you want to change your photograph. It is my photograph. If I want to upsize then it should be my decision to do that. I know it degrades the image some but that is my call not Apple's. iPhoto software does not resize images the way it should. This is the first photo editing software that I have run into that refuses to take direction from it's owner thinking that it is for your own good.

As I stated iPhoto should be able to do that.

Yes, and by that definition if you state it iPhoto should also be able to make a ham sandwich. You're problem is that you don't want to resize a photo, you want to add data to it, which is rather a different operation. Always helps if you clarify what you're trying to do. That's not what iPhoto is for, it never adds data to an image, it preserves the original and every thing is based on that.

Resize is resize. Sometimes you need to bigger, sometimes smaller. There is no notice that the re-sizing feature is restricted to smaller. First editing software I have run into that has such a restriction. Every re-size software I have used goes both ways. There is nothing wrong with the way I presented the problem in my first post. I wanted to re-size my photo.

Enjoy the ham sandwich. Look closer and you'll notice iPhoto isn't an editor.

Exactly! You are right. Offering only minor editing features it can't be a photo editor. Adobe's Lightroom is a better choice or almost anything else other then iPhoto if you need to make any adjustments to your images.

So much to learn, but Lightroom isn't an editor either. Mind you, bearing in mind the cost, it would want to be more powerful than the $15 app.

Thank you Leonie! Your photo was helpful. I tried and it worked. 🙂

You're welcome! 🙂

LarryHN wrote:

You can resize to any exact specific size you what by cropping and exporting from iPhoto with a maximum dimension

eacty as I previously posted

Easy in iPhoto

Crop to the dimensions you want (250x200 for example) and export (file menu ==> export) using a custom size setting the max dimension to what you want (250 in this example)

It pays to read the thread before posting that you can not do something that has aready been explained in the thread

LN

It pays to understand the difference between resizing and cropping before telling someone off for justifiably ignoring a non-answer.

It's somewhat useless cropping a large high-resolution but poor quality photo (as camera phones tend to create).

Resizing makes the same image take up less space (for storage, sharing and data usage), without reducing quality by much because the lens of a typical camera phone means the pictures they take often contain lots of redundant information in their excessively high-resolution files.

If you "simply crop" such a portrait image to e.g. 250x200 you're unlikely to get much more than a large eye in your picture.

It's unfortunate that iPhoto doesn't provide such a trivial feature.

However, a few answers have indicated that an image can be resized by exporting and either resizing during export or later in Preview.

IPhoto is a Digital Asset Manager. (and so is Photos, as was Aperture, as is Lightroom...). That means it preserves the original file no matter what. That's what it is designed to do. It's treated like a film shooter treats the negative.

You don't want that. You want to reduce the size and quality of the originals ("without reducing the quality by much" - who decides by how much?) therefore you should not be using iPhoto. Either you want to preserve the original or you don't. Either you want a Digital Asset Manager or you don't. You don't. You need a different app.