New cover art size?

[marti]

You know at my age (67) all these changes are not fun. I have 18 books on Smashwords and number 19 will need the new cover art size. Yuk, I make my own covers in paint, I have no idea how to make the size change and, won't it just distort the picture? I am very discouraged.

I understand I don't have to make new ones for the books Apple already has, but now this new cover will look odd in the list of books on the Apple site.

It's just been one of those days. The technology changes too fast for this old girl to keep up.

[Ted]

Marti, I googled your problem and found this link on how to resize an image in MSPaint.... www.wikihow.com/Resize-an-Image-in-Microsoft-Paint.

Hope this helps. Ted.

[amostfairchild]

Great... I already have the covers done for my next 3 books... but still have some weeks of editing. Ah well. I do notice that the Gimp can resize up quite well and still look good, so I guess I will do that.

[marti]

Thank you sooooo much Ted. You saved the day!

[Ted]

Jun 14, 2012 17:41:11 GMT -8 amostfairchild said:

Great... I already have the covers done for my next 3 books... but still have some weeks of editing. Ah well. I do notice that the Gimp can resize up quite well and still look good, so I guess I will do that.

I love Gimp. Just downloaded latest and will spend the next few weeks/months playing with all the new stuff.