Although you can simply put images into a TypePad photo album, it is preferable to crop or resize your images before putting them in your album. This process can eliminate some of the flaws in the images and provide a focus for your viewer. To do so requires an image editing program. Photoshop Elements is available across campus, and you may well have an image editing program on your home computer. If you unfamiliar with cropping an image, use the help facility. Photoshop Elements has excellent online help. The keys to making this process easy are: 1) Choose Preference > Unit & Rulers > Ruler > Pixels; 2) If you want to specify the size or resolution of the crop, enter 500 and 400 in the Width, Height, or Resolution text boxes in the options bar; and 3) Save your image as a jpeg, remembering to give it a meaningful name.
You may have to make your image a bit larger. (If you have to make your image much larger, find another image.) Choose image size and change ONE of the values. (Be sure that your Units & Rulers preference is set to pixels.) If, for example, your image is in landscape mode (wider than it is tall) type in 500 in width; if it is in portrait mode (taller than it is wide), type in 400 in height.
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