Help need software that will allow me to resize photos by inches

[da2005pizimp]

Hey everyone, i have a PC and a Mac. I mainly use the PC as it's my family computer. I bought two programs for photos trying to resize my photos to a certain size. I even went down to my local ritz camera in the mall and had them resize the photos for me. I thought i was doing good and when i got home i scanned them into the computer and tried to print them on quilting paper and it printed the original size not the size i had scanned them in at. Now i'm frustrated as hell as this is for my mom and i'm trying to help her out. Basically I need a software that will allow me to resize photos to a 5x5 so my mom can make a cool custom quilt. It can run on windows or mac it doesn't matter. I also don't want to spend 500 on the newest and most awesome software i just want a basic photo program that i can resize in inches and not pixels or percentage. Any help is VERY greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[zblaxberg]

photoshop?...hmmm i'm not sure of one that isn't expensive...I think there is a free program for mac that does the same kinda stuff and its free

 

[mcarnes]

Yeah, photoshop. Go to Image, then select Image Size. Just enter the dimensions you want.

 

[Cromulent]

The free alternative is Gimpshop. Just Google for it, pretty good actually. Just make sure you have installed X11 off your Mac OS X DVD first.

 

[zblaxberg]

thats what it was ^ gimpshop...i knew i saw it or something like it before..just forgot what it was called

 

[da2005pizimp]

well what kind of specs are needed to run that? i'm currently using a graphite 466mhz clamshell ibook. Also will have about 20 of these for sale soon <----- free plugg for me . but will something like that run gimpshop?