Enlarge and reduce GIF - how it works

If you enlarge or reduce pictures in GIF format, the most important thing is that the photos are not completely distorted afterwards. The best way to enlarge a GIF is with an image editing program that calculates the optimal dimensions.

Enlarging or reducing GIF: These programs will help you

Intuitive, small image editing programs are particularly suitable for less complex image processing, such as enlarging or reducing photos.

• An easy-to-use image editing program that also has all the important functions is the free Paint.net program from Microsoft.
• In addition to enlarging or reducing GIF's, you can also perform numerous other operations in Paint.net, such as cropping objects in images.
• In a separate article, we present the most important functions of Paint.net. If you want to expand the range of functions of the program, Paint.net provides you with numerous plugins.
• Another free and very good image editing program is GIMP. The program is much more extensive than Paint.net and of course you can easily enlarge or reduce pictures with GIMP.

More programs to change the GIF size

There are several options for enlarging or reducing GIFs in almost all image editing programs. One option to reduce the size of GIFs is, for example, to cut the image using the cutting tool. The danger with this variant is that the image is then no longer in the correct proportions and therefore looks uncomfortably distorted.

• If you let the image processing program calculate the correct data yourself, the proportions of the GIF are retained. In addition, this variant of the size modification is significantly less time-consuming.
• To enlarge a GIF with Paint.net go to "Image" in the menu bar and then select "Change size".
• For example, if the GIF has a certain width, enter the value and let the program calculate the appropriate height. To enable the image editing program to calculate the appropriate value for the height, check the "Keep aspect ratio" option.
• Of course, you also have the option of manually entering the size information for your GIF, or modifying the optimal values ​​calculated by Paint.net a little.
• The procedure is similar in most other image processing programs. Modifying the image size naturally works not only for the GIF format, but for all other image formats as well.