Shrink a Picture for a Pendant

I mentioned that my favorite glass tile pendant is the photo one of my kids. 

This was not hard at all to do.  So here's a quick tutorial on how to shrink a picture using Photoshop Elements - this is for the Elements newbie, so if you know your way around the program you know that you don't need this post.

First a quick shout-out to Photoshop Elements - I recently bought version 7 on Ebay for $30 - that's a minimal price to pay for great editing software.  I love "actions" which are things you can download to automatically give your pictures a certain look (let me know and I can do a post on what they are more specifically) and I don't feel at all that I need the full-version grown-up Photoshop - Elements is meeting all my needs and I'm sure it can do lots more that I don't even know about.

So open up Elements and the picture you want to use.  Tweak your colors to how you want them.  Then crop your picture to a square - to do this click the crop tool and then there will be a drop-down box where you can choose 5x5 - that's a square (equal sides, equal angles - you know).  Then drag the box over your picture to how you want it.

After you have you have a square picture click on "Image" and you'll get a drop-down box where you can click "Resize" and you'll get another drop-down box to click "Image Size"

Where it says "Document Size" change width and height to 1 and make sure it says "inches" (if not there's a drop-down menu where you can choose inches).

Voila, a 1x1inch image.  I opened a Word Document and copy and pasted a bunch of 1 inch pictures all on to one sheet and just printed them off on regular paper.  It worked great.