How do you shrink a picture so all of it fits as a display picture on fb ? :/?

[Sarah]

Ive got a new photo of me and the family which i would love to have as my facebook display picture. But everytime i upload it as my dp, it only shows abit of it. it dosent show the Whole picture which is what i wanted :/ how do i resize it ? i dont need to crop it as that would mean me cutting people out of the picture. it just needs shrinking but im not sure how to do it. advice would be much appreciated
i have clicked on it and croped it and its still dosent show it all /:

[Party animal]

click on it and crop it

[Pinkie Blueii]

I'm not sure if you mean the thumbnail of your display picture, and if you are, and if you have the recent Facebook version (with the cover photo) you can scroll over your profile picture where it would give you the option to edit profile picture, and click on edit thumbnail and then click scale to fit, which should show the whole picture, Hope this helped ( If this isn't what you meant i'm sorry) x

[WellTraveledProg]

Do you want to use this as the "large" picture at the top of your timeline?
If so, you're going to have to both resize *and* crop it.

The space for that picture on FB is 1250 pixels by 548 pixels (it will show up differently on different monitors, but that's the pixel size and aspect ration FB allots for it).

So everything you want to show up there has to fit in a 1250x548 pixel space. If the aspect ratio of your photo is different than that (and it almost certainly is, since FB's format doesn't match most camera aspect ratios), then you're going to have to crop your photo to fit, as well as resize it.

PM me if you have trouble figuring this out.

Peace.

[jimbo]

The technique you require is called "Seam Carving".
Photoshop calls it Content Aware Scale.
This free program will allow you to choose areas of your photo to remain the same while expanding or contracting other areas of the image.

http://code.google.com/p/seam-carving-gui/

http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/SCWeb/...index.html

http://forums.vso-software.fr/seam-carvi...t9800.html

Good stuff here
http://www.faculty.idc.ac.il/arik/site/s...-carve.asp

If you use a free program called GIMP look for Liquid
http://liquidrescale.wikidot.com/

http://code.google.com/p/seam-carving-gui/