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Image editing: PaintShop Pro explainer 1 of 5

Open a logo image, resize it and save it using PaintShop Pro

Posted by By pixel perfect 7 Min Read February 4, 2025

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Open a logo image, resize it and save it.

Overview

Name of explainer: Open an image of a logo, resize it and save it.

Creative theme: Image editing

Software used: PaintShop Pro

User level: BEGINNER

This is video explainer 1 of 5 in this series

This explainer series includes:

  1. Open an image, resize it and save it
  2. Open an image, rotate it and crop it
  3. Open an image and apply basic colour correction
  4. Open an image and add text
  5. Create a new image with a single-colour background

The Software

This series of image editing explainers uses PaintShop Pro. You can download a FREE 30 day demo version of the software from Corel’s website. (PC only). At time of writing (Jan 2025), the current version of PaintShop Pro is ‘2023’.

Screenshot of a photo-editing software website. A woman with green eyeshadow and a braided hairstyle is on a bright yellow background. Text describes features like AI-enhanced photo editing.
Screenshot of the Paintshop Pro website. A woman with green eyeshadow and a braided hairstyle is on a bright yellow background. Text describes features such as AI-enhanced photo editing.

Later this month we’ll run our explainer series for Photoshop (which requires a paid subscription) and GIMP (which is completely free).

The pre-requisities

This is a BEGINNER workflow explainer, so you just need to install and open the software. We’ll take it from there!

If you’re new to IT / computing, you may need help downloading and installing the software. Start with a search for ‘how do i install paintshop pro’ or speak with someone familiar with downloading and installing applications.

Why would I do this?

Being able to resize images is a basic process that’s an important step in lots of common image editing workflows, including:

  • Reducing the resolution of a full-size photo to use it on online
  • Reducing the resolution of a photo to attach it to an email
  • Reducing the resolution to save storage space
  • Increasing the resolution of a small / fuzzy image to make it clearer / suitable for use in a work or education project

In this explainer we open a large logo image and ‘make it smaller’ by reducing the resolution, ready to use it on the web or social media.

Let’s do it!

You can download the logo image used in this explainer in the section further down this page!

Click the play icon to watch this video. Subtitles are available – Click the settings cog at the bottom right for options. You can also watch this video full-screen by clicking the full-screen icon at the bottom right.

Good to know

The logo used for this explainer is stored in PNG format (refered to as ‘ping’). This image format is popular for logos as it supports transparency (a ‘see through’ background). Photos saved by digital cameras and other devices are commonly stored in .jpg (jpeg) format, which does not support transparency, or a ‘raw’ format which applies very little compression. Modern devices (including mobile phones and recent digital cameras) may save images as ‘heif’ files, though these are not supported by every app.

See geeksforgeeks for a straightforward guide to all the major image formats.

Where to next?

In the explainer we successfully resized the logo to make it ‘smaller’, but what if you need to make an image LARGER? Here are the additional options available on PaintShop Pro’s resize dialog box:

Generally speaking, if you would like to UPSCALE an image it will be best to ‘resample using’ the BICUBIC option shown, and to reduce resolution it’s best to use the BILINEAR option. Current versions of software, including this latest version of PaintShop Pro, also includes AI (artificial intelligence) upscaling which can offer impressive results for photos with ‘typical’ content (E.g. Faces / buildings / landscapes). Check out this video for the science bit!

If you’re interested in using software with dedicated AI upscaling options have a look at Topaz Photo AI 2:

A colorful parrot sits on a branch. The image is divided to show different levels of detail, highlighting editing features. Text boxes describe functions of the editing tool.
A colorful parrot sits on a branch. The image is divided to show different levels of detail, highlighting editing features. Text boxes describe functions of the editing tool.

You could also use a FREE online app such as airbrush.ai to upscale individual images:

Remember, this is part of a series of explainers for Paintshop Pro – Join us again for the other explainers in the series 🙂

Download the logo image used in this explainer

This is the file we used in this explainer. You’re welcome to download it for personal use only. Please do not redistribute.

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Notes and updates

There are no notes or advisori es at this time. This video explainer was last updated in Feb 2023. This page was last updated in Jan 2025.

We at pixels.cool are not responsible for the content of any external webpages or software downloaded from third party sites. Links are included in good faith at the time of writing. All explainer content is compiled in good faith using processes and methods used by the team. Modern software gives users many ways in which to accomplish the same task, and for reasons of clarity we choose not to reference multiple options. All computer users should run up to date virus / security software at all times to minimise risk.

This is number 1 of 15 explainer videos created for image editing month! Make sure you check out the others!