Scaling and Canvass Size

[maicart]

Hello,

I have to create a 100x100px icon out of this 640x426px picture (see link below), focusing on the girl's face.

I've been told that first I need to scale the image as closely as possible to 100x100, and then change the canvass size to 100x100.

How can I do it so that I can select just the girl's face, and not her body or surrounding elements? Could you tell me the steps so that I can do this with other pictures?

Thanks.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4_Hyl1...sp=sharing

[Kevin]

The way I would go about it is to make a square crop round the face using the crop tool (it can help to set a fixed aspect ratio of 1:1) - doesn't matter how many pixels, just that it's the same horizontally and vertically.

Then Scale the resulting image to be 100x100 pixels using the image scale dialog.

   
   

[maicart]

It worked! Thanks so much!