Resizing Pictures

[Tesel]

Whats the best what to resize pictures without making them blurry and distorted?

[Pepi]

First, you must traverse the great valley of of Eboda, then, after behaeding and evouring the great ogre you must climb to the highest point of crystal mountain. There will be a cave and in that cave tehre is a box, and in the box ther is another box and in that box tehre is a nother box and in the box, there is a key, to a door. After inserting the key, you must defeant colonel sanders in a battle of wits and jump through the looking glass and defeat the great white witch and wat all her turkish delight. After devouring the turkish delight, you will have an acid trip, in this trip you must navigate a path of blood to find a cradle with a screaming baby, in that baby's hand, there is a scroll. In that scroll, there inlies the way to resize picture with out making them distorted or blurry.

Or you could use photoshop.

[Les Bian]

Yeah, photoshop.

I do not condone anything else Pepi has written there...

[Threeboy]

I would use photoshop.

but remember you can only make images smaller, if you make images bigger it'll always look like ass because the computer has to "guess" and make up info.

[rocket.]

Photoshop CS has the "Enlarge, To nearest pixel" feature but it only works decent sometimes.

[NMO]

In photoshop you can improve the image slightly when enlarging the image by using your 'Filter > Noise > Median' filter on a duplicated image and messing around with blending the two, it only works occasionally sometimes. Always set your median settings fairly low though, or you get an over airbrushed look. In some cases I've found if you mess around abit with the blending, you can sharpen the colours somewhat.
I used this method with my current desktop (http://nomoreoptions.net/Desktops/270405.jpg) (Wierd resolution usually means I always have to play with my images before applying them). But for this one the image was only slightly smaller than what I wanted it to be.
I don't know if any newer versions of photoshop have better options for this kind of stuff, I'm still using Photoshop 6.0. Yeah, I'm old school.

[rocket.]

I was using 5.5 until 7 came out. lol.

[Tesel]

Yeah I thought of Photoshop but I had it installed on my computer one time and it is messed up with that pink thing that I posted awhile ago.

[Shamus]

For downsizing, bicubic sharper. For enlarging, bicubic smoother.

That's what it says in the Photoshop help and personally I can notice a difference between bicubic and bicubic sharper when downsizing.