How to Resize a Picture in Paint

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By andresouth
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Windows 7 has now included a new version of MS Paint, which has a similar layout to the MS Office suite where all the menu option has been seperated into icons which covers 1/4 of the top of the screen, so to change the size of a picture it is a little different than how we are use to in the other versions of paint.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Computer
Windows 7
Paint
Picture

Step 1

Open paint and go to open to view the picture in paint
Step 2

Select the picture from your computer and click Open
Step 3

Click the Resize and Skew button up at the top left hand corner of the screen
Step 4

Change the values of 100 to something between 1-99 for example to make the picture half the size it orginally is put the value of 50 in both boxes and click ok
Step 5

If your satisfied with the new size of the picture go ahead and click save as.

Congratulations you've successfully changed the size of your picture!