Here is a short video of how I resize the photo using my iMac. If you have ever got an image and placed it onto your website only to realise that the top section or bottom section Is missing then this tutorial may solve your problem.
How To Resize An Image video
I hope you can see where this tutorial can be helpful. Basically you want your image to fit where you want to put it . Ideally you want to create an image to the exact specification required but if that is not possible then you can adjust the image size as shown above.