Chapter 4. Super Size Me Resizing and Cropping

Now, you're probably thinking, "Scott, do we really need a full chapter on resizing and cropping?" Absolutely! Well, we definitely need a chapter on resizing (the different strategies for maintaining image quality when resizing are critical), and the cropping stuff just seemed like a natural fit here (because it's not a natural fit anywhere else). So, I thought I'd put these two great topics together to create a "super-sized" chapter. Okay, that was clearly a lame attempt to draw a connection between the chapter title and the real title of this chapter (which is the subhead beneath it). Actually, I think it works because this chapter is about resizing, and the chapter title is from the award-winning documentary Super Size Me (see the "sizing" connection?), which is about a guy who eats breakfast, lunch, and dinner at a McDonald's fast-food restaurant for like 40-something days until he gets so sick that he finally switches to Wendy's (or something like that). Anyway, back to our story. We know that learning different strategies about how and when to resize is important, but do we really need an entire chapter on cropping? No. But we do need at least a third of a chapter (which is about what you'll get, because most of this chapter is about resizing) to learn all the cool cropping things you need to know. Now, when I say "we do need at least a third of a chapter," who is the "we" I'm referring to? Anytime I say "we" in this book, I either mean: (a) me, (b) you and me, or (c) we. I sometimes mean (d) all of the above. Hey, I never said this would be easy.