Downloading photo's

[ace]

Hi all

Can anyone tell me how to reduce the picture size when downloading. I use Photo-bucket to upload the pics to this forum from and end up with rather large pics that take up the whole page.

ACE

[Deleted]

Ace,

You can open the picture in Microsoft Paint (part of Windows), then select 'image' and then 'stretch/skew', then type a percentage into the horizontal and vertical stretch boxes, eg 50 to reduce to half size, then save the image as a jpg.

Regards,

John

[ron]

Ace
You can download a free re-sizer prog from www.showyourphotos.com, very easy to use.
Ron

[Boadicea]

There are two issues here - reducing the physical size of pictures AND/OR reducing the file size to facilitate quicker transporting. Photoshop Elements will do both of these for you and lots, lots more! I have not seen it free anywhere, but I got my one free with a camera.

[alanstepney]

Try Irfanview.

A simple basic picture resizer and modifier, and, IT IS FREE!

[havoc]

Another vote for Irfanview. Also usable for this with a bit more possibilities: The Gimp; Also free and exsists for M$, linux and OSx

What you need to do is first crop your pic to cut away all that doesn't matter. Then resize/scale to about 640 pixels for the largest edge. This will give pics that fill the space a post of the forum when viewed in the most common screen sizes.

[hat]

I have been using Irfanview for years and believe me its one of the best around - even better for being free - but a tip, once you have resized etc save the image with a new file name, that way you can always get back to the original. Another advantage / facility which I use all the time is to be able to title all the images onto the actual photo, I know that other camera tools will do this but Irfanview is so simple to use compared with something like Photoshop for which you need a degree in digital acrobatics to use effectively .
Hat