How To Resize And Edit Images On Blogger & Picasa

In this tutorial you'll learn "How To Re-size And Edit Images On Blogger & Picasa". Photos play important role for any blog or website. If you are using Blogger platform then your images you upload on your blog will be stored in Picasa. This is an image organizer/viewer free service by search giant Google.

Let me explain in detail, after create a blog, Picasa automatically create web album (with the same name) for your upload/uploaded photos. You can upload photos up-to 1 GB of total storage allotted to Picasa Web Albums.

Come to the point, some times you want to re-size already uploaded an image to your blog. You could do the following process:

Edit The Picture In Any Image Software (eg: Photoscape, Photoshop etc)
Resize An Image >> Upload Again To Blogger

Ufff..!! It is a too long process and you will have to upload the image to your blog again. There are some hidden inbuilt Image Resizing feature available in Blogger (Picasa) service.

Here, I'm showing you a demo Image with the dimensions 2000px x 2000px , Check original link which is hosted on my Picasa account. See original image link below:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1NsTq0HvLck/UQJTvf0P63I/AAAAAAAAq6Q/F1_3x-6YAyk/s1600/sample-image-2000x2000.png

See Image size s1600 in above URL, it is the default blogger dimension. s1600 is the largest dimension of an image in blogger blog. You can change it upto s9999.

How To Resize My Blogger Blog Images?

After upload an image to Blogger you'll get the Direct image link in your post editor. If you want 450px width image, change s1600 to s450 (leading s is important and use any width you want.)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1NsTq0HvLck/UQJTvf0P63I/AAAAAAAAq6Q/F1_3x-6YAyk/s450/sample-image-2000x2000.png

s1600 to s450

See, now the image size is 450px width and height is corresponding ratio to original image.

How To Crop An Image?

Another interesting feature to convert your image into perfect square size is "Cropping". This option will cut the extra image on either sides and serve you a square image. Follow the steps given below to crop your image.

Just add the -c at the end of an image size. For example: s100-c. See demo below:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1NsTq0HvLck/UQJTvf0P63I/AAAAAAAAq6Q/F1_3x-6YAyk/s100-c/sample-image-2000x2000.png

s100-c

How To Make The Downloadable Image Link

If you'' paste direct image link in browser, it will show the image. But, if you want to provide download option for an image then follow given steps. It show’s a download prompt box to download the image.

Just write the -d at end of an image size. For example: s1600-d and so on. (Click Here For Demo)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1NsTq0HvLck/UQJTvf0P63I/AAAAAAAAq6Q/F1_3x-6YAyk/s1600-d/sample-image-2000x2000.png

You can save a lot of time with the help of these tips. I hope you enjoyed the tutorial. Now, Please share this article or join conversation. God Bless :)

Author - Gagan Masoun is the owner of Blogs Daddy Blog.Gagan lives in India, has been blogging since 2010 and writing Blogs Daddy Blog since 2011.You can find him in the usual social networks.

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