Learn how to resize your image using Pixlr.com.

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Web pages are fast or slow depending in part on the size and amount of images you have on them. So it stands to reason that you will have to at some point change the size of an image.

We’re going to show you how you can do this by using Pixlr.com. Please note that Pixlr.com is a third-party resource and we do not offer any technical support beyond offering this tutorial for this program. Let's get started. Go to Pixlr.com, scroll down, click launch web app on the Pixlr editor side, click open image from computer, select the image that you have saved on your computer, then click open.

Once you are in the editor in the top left side, click image, then image size. We are going to use this image as a background. So in the width section only, we’re going to set it to 1920.

This will allow me to get close to the recommended 1920 by 1080 size that we need. Click okay. Now we’re going to make sure that we have my crop tool selected and notice that up in the top it has options for us.

In the drop down, we will select output size. It will automatically show the full size of my image. We set our width before so we will only need to change the height to the 1080 that we need.

Then we just click and drag the cursor from the left to the right until the crop box is the desired size which in this case is the full width of our image. Then we can readjust the position of our crop box. Move the cursor and click outside the image for the crop to take effect.

Select yes. We can check our work by going to image and image size again. It is the right size so we will click cancel.

Then go to file, save, change the name if you like, select png format, then okay and we are all done.

Updated March 28, 2025 23:09