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How to resize a digital photograph using PhotoScape X software

=== by Bob Sutherland ===

A lesson on how to resize a digital photograph using PhotoScape X by Mooii Tech for Macintosh and Windows computers.

PhotoScape X is a photo editing program that you can download on the Internet from the computer programmer's website. There is a free version of the program that encourages you to upgrade and buy the Pro version.
http://x.photoscape.org

The following are screenshot images I captured of my Macintosh computer screen as I worked through the process of resizing a digital photograph. I do not currently have a Windows computer.

PhotoScape X application icon
This is what the PhotoScape X application icon looks like.

The first step is to start up the PhotoScape X application and open a file that contains a photograph.

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Here is the window I saw when I started up the PhotoScape X program. I mouse clicked on the word Open in the centre of the screen.
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Here is a window showing the folders of my computer account. I searched and found the photograph file that I want to resize.
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Here is my photograph that I want to resize. It is a picture of the backyard behind an old house. How convenient, the word Resize is there in the menu beside my photograph. I mouse clicked on Resize.
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The menu to the right of my photograph changes to become the Resize menu. The first thing I check is to make sure there is a checkmark in the box for Preserve Aspect Ratio.
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I mouse clicked in the box beside Width and this list of suggested photograph dimensions popped up. I selected 1024 pixels as the new width of my photograph.
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The PhotoScape X application automatically changed the Height dimension of my photograph to preserve its shape. I now had to mouse click the Apply button in the bottom right corner of the window.
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If you compare this screenshot to the previous screenshot you will notice the changes of numbers below my photograph. The dimensions of my photograph has changed from 4387 x 2288 pixels to the smaller size of 1024 x 534 pixels. My original photograph was displayed at a zoom of 20% to fill the available space but now the resized photograph is being displayed at 81% zoom. I now have to save the new photograph file with a new filename.
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This is the Save window. I mouse clicked on the Save As button.
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I changed the filename by adding the number 1024.
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Here is a list of the different file types available when saving a photograph.
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Here is the final screenshot of this lesson showing the pixel dimensions of my original photograph file and the smaller resized photograph file we just created.