How can I reduce the size of a photo PROPORTIONALLY? With my old Macmini I was able to place the pointer on the bottom right corner of the picture, hold down the shift key and move the pointer to achieve the desired size.
Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
select the photo, edit, select crop and click the constrain box - then crop
LN
This will not reduce the size of individuals wwithin the photo or parts of their body. I am tryin to reduce the size of a head so that I can move it to another photo where the heads are smaller.
I would do that in the software you are going to use to do the rest of the editing - iPhoto can not move elements within photos
LN
I am a total novice---what do you mean by other " software?"
as I said
the software you are going to use to do the rest of the editing - iPhoto can not move elements within photos
LN
You'll need to use a 3rd party editor like one of these:
Some Image Editors That Support layers:
Photoshop Elements 11 for Mac - $79Rainbow Painter - $30
Imagerie - $38
Acorn - $50
Pixelmator - $60
Seashore - Free
Portraits and Prints - Free
GIMP for Mac - Free
Xee 2.1 - free
My personal preference would be for Photoshop Elements for Mac. Most of these will let you select and copy a head from one photo, paste it into another photo, resize and place where you need it.
PSE has a specific feature just for that function. I belive the Adobe site for PSE has a demo video of that feature.
OT
You can do this now in Preview, but never could in iPhoto. Of course, that only affects the display and doesn't edit the file in any way.
With iPhoto you can do this in the Export dialogue - File -> Export and under Size you can scale in various ways.
This User Tip
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921
has details of the options in the Export dialogue.
When I go to EXport I do not see anything but Picas, Shutterfly, etc. I do not get size.
What version of iPhoto do you have?
You don't have this window in iPhoto's Export ➙ File Export pane?
How can I reduce the size of a photo proportionally. With my old Mac mini I was able to place the pointer on the bottom right corner hold the shift key until I achieved the desires size.
