Unofficial Tex Murphy

So I took a bunch of pictures from Hawaii, and wanted to post them online. The thing is....I shot them in high detail so the files are pretty big. (1 to 5 megs each) I thought I remembered how to resize them to a smaller resolution... 800 x 600 would be nice. But I can't do it.

Anyone able to talk me through it? Hopefully without having to go out and buy software. My credit card is hemmoraging right now!


Cheers!

Jen

using yahoo photo's to upload.

You can use Microsoft Paint, you should find it under Start > Programs> Accessories
It's a bit fiddly when resizing which is lame but it comes on all Windows PC.

Taken from this link: http://www.earthlink.net/elink/issue69/tech.html

To use Paint to resize pictures:

1. Right-click the picture you want to email and choose Open With, then choose Paint.


2. When Paint has opened your picture, choose Attributes from the Image menu. The attributes will show you how big the picture is before resizing.


3. Take a look at the width and height of your picture, then figure out the percentage that you want to reduce it. (That is, if the picture is 1000 X 600 pixels, and you want it to be 500 X 300, then you want the new image to be 50% of the original.)


4. Close the Attributes screen and choose Stretch/Skew from the Image menu


5. In both the Horizontal and the Vertical boxes, enter the percentage that you decided you want the resized picture to be. (In our example, we chose 50%.)


6. Click OK to reduce your picture.


7. From the File menu, choose Save As, then save the resized picture with a new name (this way, you'll have the small version for email and the large one for yourself).


8. Attach the new picture to an email message, then write and send the email as usual and you're finished!

That's pretty much how I resize pics for my avatars. Good job, Sai.

Ahh, but how picky are you quality wise?
I mean, do you want to resize the pictures using bicubic, lanczos, or some other method to preserve detail?

i'm_melting_i'm_melting wrote:Ahh, but how picky are you quality wise?
I mean, do you want to resize the pictures using bicubic, lanczos, or some other method to preserve detail?

I am sure she would like to keep her pictures hetero-cubic

-Cub. =o)

Cubase wrote:

i'm_melting_i'm_melting wrote:Ahh, but how picky are you quality wise?
I mean, do you want to resize the pictures using bicubic, lanczos, or some other method to preserve detail?

I am sure she would like to keep her pictures hetero-cubic

-Cub. =o)

Now Cub....don't be too sure about that!

Jen

Zing!

-Cub. =o)