ImageWell has four different sizing modes. The first mode, which we just discovered,

lets you quickly resize the image while maintaining the aspect ratio of the image - this is

locked mode.

To change the sizing mode, click the button

between the width and height text boxes.

Every click of the button will cycle to the next

sizing mode:

• Locked

• Autocrop

• Autosize

• Stretch

Putting a Rectangular Peg in a Square Hole

What if you require an image of a certain size but it just won't fit. For example, you

need an image that is 100 pixels by 100 pixels, but your image is 400 by 350. You slide

that image slider up and down but when the width is at 100, the height is 87; and

when the height is 100, the width is 114 - Houston we have a problem!

No worries - use one of the other three sizing modes:

Auto Crop - In this mode, just type in the exact size you want. Whatever

doesn't fit, ImageWell will chop it off.

Auto Size - The image will maintain the aspect ratio and ImageWell will fill in

any remaining blank space on the canvas.

Stretch - ImageWell stretches the image to fit exactly.

To illustrate the different sizing modes, here is the same image sized 3 different ways:

Auto Crop - notice how some of the fingers are chopped off. (No fingers were actually

chopped off in the making of this manual.)

Auto Size - the picture was sized and all the fingers show up, but the gray area on the

top and bottom are the areas that ImageWell filled in.

Stretch - the image was stretched vertically to fit the entire area.

Helpful Tip...

When using the Auto Crop mode, sometimes you

might want to offset the crop so more is cropped

from one side than the other. You can use the

slider to adjust the cropped area.

All of these features are standard and available in both the free version of ImageWell

and the paid ImageWell Xtra upgrade.

And now off to adding a Watermark to your image - click here