Washed out portrait

[wise grimwald]

I have created the two portraits, a large and a small one. The large one is fine, but the one that I "stretched" by about 30% in paint to make it the correct size has washed out colours. Does anyone know how to keep the colours good for the small portrait?

[anarchistica]

Ugh you use Paint? Send the pic you have (pre-stretching) to anarchisticaATgmailDOTcom and i will resize it for you using proper software.

[Curry]

Originally Posted by wise grimwald

I have created the two portraits, a large and a small one. The large one is fine, but the one that I "stretched" by about 30% in paint to make it the correct size has washed out colours. Does anyone know how to keep the colours good for the small portrait?

your question is very vague. I don't wanna sound mean but either use portraits made by other people or read some photoshop tutorials :P this is no computer graphics helpdesk

[Crenshinibon]

Now now, no need to sound mean.

Paint is only a basic editing tool and does not offer many features that you might need. For the editing and quality resizing of images I would reccomend Paintshop Pro or Photoshop. I am not sure but you may be able to download either the entire thing or a demo.

[wise grimwald]

Thanks. Your advice has been most helpful.

[CFM]

I'll second Cren's recommendation for Adobe Photoshop. I use it at work from time to time, when I need to make various form overlays for our programs. The forms I make are boring and simplistic (company invoices, purchase orders, etc.), but I've used it enough to know I'm only using 1% of it's potential. It is *the* tool to use for stuff like BG portraits.

Downside: it's pricey if you ain't got your job flippin' the bill for it.

[mr_sir]

I don't know if you still can, but you used to be able to download a 30 day trial of Photoshop from the Adobe website - if you only want to do BG portraits on it and will not use it very often then this might be the better option rather than buy the full version

[wise grimwald]

Originally Posted by mr_sir

I don't know if you still can, but you used to be able to download a 30 day trial of Photoshop from the Adobe website - if you only want to do BG portraits on it and will not use it very often then this might be the better option rather than buy the full version

A friend of mine at the office has offered to do it in photoshop for me. Thanks everybody. All I needed to know was that i was using the wrong software.