Edit & Size Your Blog images for Free
Blog posts and web pages really look much better when they include a picture or two. In the most recent versions of WordPress, you have the ability to edit your media library images in the wp-admin.
But there is a problem… if an image is too large you can’t upload it to the media library. There are restrictions on the size of file your host will allow you to upload.
Photoshop and Illustrator are image editing programs used by graphic and web designers but they are expensive and more advanced than what the average blogger or WordPress site owner would need to simply size and crop an image.
When Your Image is too Large – Use Pixlr
Pixlr will re-size your large images so that you can upload them to your WordPress blog. Simply follow these 7 steps:
- Go to http://pixlr.com/editor/
- Choose “open image from your computer”
- Browse your directories to find the image, select it and click open
- In Pixlr choose Image from the top navigation bar and select Image size from the drop down menu
- Make sure that constrain proportions is ticked then change your image width to the size you want – 960px is probably the maximum width you would want to display in a website
- click File -> Save
- Change the name of the file so you don’t overwrite the original and then click OK
You can crop your image with Pixlr too or, once you’ve uploaded your image to WordPress, you can crop the thumbnail image with the WordPress image editor.
If you’re at all familiar with Photoshop you’ll find that Pixlr has a similar layout. Click the A icon to add a text overlay to your image. Change the font and text colour. Explore and play with the available tools. Then save the image to your computer and upload it to the WordPress media library.
Pixlr is powerful tool for bloggers and it is FREE!
