How resize photo to an exact pixel by pixel size?

Question

I need to save a photo that is 3872 pixels by 2592 pixels to an new, exact dimension of 475 pixels by 265 pixels. iphoto only seems to allow me to specify either height or width as a new dimension.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

OK Larry, I figured it all out. We are both correct. The issue is that there are two ways to custom crop in iPhoto and switching between them in non-intuitive. One way gives you an actual hard dimension crop (what I was talking about) and the other a ratio box where the longest size expands to the full dimension of the photo (what you were talking about).
Pick a photo and go into edit. Hit the crop button. Normally you get a slight downsized window with the constraint button UNchecked. If yours comes up checked, UNcheck it now (more on that in a minute). Now use the pull down to pick Custom the constraint button then checks and you get default values of zero in the two boxes. At this point if you then pick dimensions, such as 475 x 265, you are picking a RATIO box that stretches all the way across the longest size of the photo and the other dimension determined by the ratio. This is what you were talking about.
However, pick crop and this time start with the constraint button CHECKED. Now use the pull down and pick Custom. Instead of giving you the boxes with zeros in them, this time they start with the full size of the photo prefilled in. Now change the dimensions to 475 x 265 and this time it is an actual hard crop to 475 x 265 pixels rather than a ratio. This is what I saw when I did it and why I didn't understand your comment.
The confusing thing is that depending on how you last left the constraint check box in crop, it will come up that way next time you use crop even on a different photo. So when you go to custom again, it might act differently depending if you entered that setting with the constraint box checked or unchecked.
So anyway, add that to your list of answers for posters. The Crop function in the edit mode has two options, one is a hard crop to set pixels and the other is a ratio crop. How you pick which one is by the checkbox for Constraint before you pick the Custom crop pull down.
I am sure there we were both saying to ourselves about each other, what the heck is wrong with that guy that he doesn't get a simple concept.
Cheers,
Patrick