Motifs

This section enables you to change the size of the motif by pixels, or percentage.  Simply choose your preferred option from the drop down menu.

1. Activate your image or layers in the Layers Palette and select your motif using an appropriate Selection Tool.
2. To open the Resize options, either go to the Edit Menu and select Resize, use the shortcut ⌘ I, or click on the icon above in your toolbar. The Resize Window will open displaying the current dimensions of the selected area in pixels/percentage and in your chosen units (these can be changed in your General Settings ).
   
   

Pixel size

This section enables you to change the size of the motif by pixels, or percentage. Simply choose your preferred option from the drop down menu.


Resize Selection

If you would rather resize a selection to a specific unit size, use this section of the window as opposed to the Pixel Size. Select your chosen units from the drop down menu and enter a new Width or Height in the dialogue boxes.


Uniform resizing

Resizing can be done uniformly or disproportionately, depending on your need. The default method is uniformly, meaning the selection will not distort as you resize. If you want to distort your motif as you resize it, click on the small chain icon to the right of the dimensions. This will unlink the Width and Height dimensions, meaning they can be resized independently of each other.

Resample method

• Nearest Neighbour- keeps the artwork as close to the original as possible.
• Smooth - applies a slight blur so is better on bad scans or images.
• High Quality Soft - adds tonal contrast and blur.
• High Quality - applies a slight blur.
• High Quality Sharp - increases the contrast between dark and light pixels, sharpening edges.

Your preferred method can be set as a default in AVA > Settings > General.

Resample from origin or centre

Choose whether to resize the selected area from it’s origin, which is the top left of the selection, or from the centre of it’s current position. The option you chose will be remembered the next time you use these settings.

Centre will maintain the current position of the selection and will equally enlarge or reduce it on all sides.

Origin will appear to move the position of the selection as it uses the top left of the selection to resize from.

Designs

There are a number of reasons for resizing a whole design. The most common reason would be to get the file to your correct repeat size. Resizing whole designs as opposed to selected motifs requires a slightly different workflow.

To resize a whole design you must not have any selections in the file.

1. Open your design.
2. Choose Edit Menu > Resize or use the keyboard shortcut ⌘i. The Resize Window will open showing the current dimensions of the design in pixels/percentage, and in your chosen units (these can be changed in your General Settings ).

Pixel Size

This section enables you to change the size of the motif by pixels, or percentage. Simply choose your preferred option from the drop down menu.

Document Size

If you would rather resize a design to a specific unit size, use this section of the window as opposed to the Pixel Size. Select your chosen units from the drop down menu and enter a new Width or Height in the dialog boxes.

Uniform resizing

Resizing can be done uniformly or disproportionately, depending on your need. The default method is uniformly, meaning the selection will not distort as you resize. If you want to distort your motif as you resize it, click on the small chain icon to the right of the dimensions. This will unlink the Width and Height dimensions, meaning they can be resized independently of each other.Resolutions

Set the resolution of your file at the same time as resizing. Ticking Separate Resolutions enables you to enter different X and Y (horizontal and vertical) resolutions. This is sometimes needed when working on weave designs.

An example of when you may want to resize the file and change the resolution at the same time is when working on photographs. Depending on the settings used on the camera, photographs can open at a very low resolution, but have very large dimensions.


Rotary options

This option is only accessible when resizing the whole file.

Activate Rotary X and Rotary Y to resize a design to fit a rotary repeat. Enter the cylinder repeat size the design must fit on and the software will calculate how many repeats will fit at the current size. Enter the desired number of repeats and the design will be resized accordingly.

As with entering new dimensions, it is necessary to click on Other first, if the change you are making is intended to alter the size disproportionately, otherwise the X and Y sizes will be constrained to each other proportionately. The Rotary X and Y settings are remembered each time you enter the Resize window, so you do not need to enter your particular rotary repeat sizes every time you use the Resize command for this process.

Resample method

• Nearest Neighbour - keeps the artwork as close to the original as possible.
• Smooth - applies a slight blur so is better on bad scans or images.
• High Quality Soft - adds tonal contrast and blur.
• High Quality - applies a slight blur.
• High Quality Sharp - increases the contrast between dark and light pixels, sharpening edges.

Your preferred method can be set as a default in AVA > Settings > General.

Resample from

When resizing a document, the Resize From options produce the same result.  This is more applicable when resizing selections.

...in real time

When you select an area you will notice small squares, known as control handles, at each corner of the selection. You can drag these handles inwards or outwards to resize the object.

Place the cursor over one of the control handles and wait for the cursor icon to change to a heavy black cross before you adjust the handle.

Hold down ⌥ (option key) while dragging a handle to constrain the resize proportionately. Hold down ⌘ (command key)  and drag a control handle, or selection edge, to change the selection without affecting the design.

Automate Resize

Resizing documents is an ideal application for our new Automated Task technology. For example, you may need reduce a number of files in order to upload standard sized JPEG versions to a website.  Using our Automated Task technology, it is very easy to do this at the click of a button.  You simply need to create this button first.

1. If necessary, go to File > New > Palette. Alternatively you may wish to add this new workflow button to an existing, open Palette. 
2. Go to Edit Menu > Resize. 
3. Drag the handler from the Resize Window to the Palette. 
4. Hold down ⌥ (option key) and click on the newly created button to change its name, and to include a more relevant snapshot as the buttons icon.
   
   
   
5. Click on the spanner icon beside the Resize Document setting to open the editor.
   
   
   

• Resize - lets you to select either Document, Selection or Selected Layers. To resize a selection, you need to have a selection stored in your Palette. To do this, make the selection using either the Lasso Tool, Rectangular Selection Tool or the Magic Wand Tool, then drag it directly into the Palette. Use the standard drag and drop action to re-order the actions within the Palette Button you are now building.
• Resize To:
  • Physical Size- resize your document, selection or selected layers to a dimension using your chosen units

    Resolution - change the resolution of your document using Pixels per Inch or Pixels per Centimetre

  • Scale - resize by a percentage

  • Pixel Size - resize by a number of pixels

  • Proportional Scale - resize by either a width or height value. AVA then automatically calculates the corresponding value.