in need of some help formatting pictures

washout03

Hi, im sure this has been discussed on here a million times, but a quick search on this topic brought up way too many responses to find what i need. I'm trying to find out how to post pictures on here. I need to post my pre-style pictures before the 30th. I have tried to do this before, but my pictures are too large. Any pointers on how to resize and post them?
Thanks a lot
Tom

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Will_Heath

If you would like to private message me, you can email me your pics and I will resize them and email them back.

After that you may want to get ifranview (do a search) which is free or maybe get adobe photoshop for working and resizing.

Ralph

I posted this info before, but I will post again so that everyone has it as well. If you use MS Office 2003, the default picture viewer called picture manager can resize your photos easily. Open the picture inside picture manager, click picture on the pull down tool bar, select compress pictures, on the right hand side will appear a menu, choose the option for compress for web page, and it will be resized perfectly for display on this forum.

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pootsie

With MGI photosuite (came with sony cybercam) use the "picture quality" function in the "save as" dialog box. There is a slider going from 100% to about 40% or so. Click "save as", move the slider down and save, and it will reduce the file size.

If you mean the width and height of your image, a quick trick (which also reduces file size) is to copy the full picture, open a new image of the proper size, paste, and hit the "shrink image" option when it tells you that the copied image is too large for the new picture.

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Delboy

Hi Tom,
Without the use of a specialist program, try Paint. Open the picture you wish to edit with paint, click the image tab, select stretch/skew and change the % to about 40% on both horizontal and vertical. This will reduce the picture size and the file size. Remeber to save the file as its new size.

Good luck
Delboy.

Jonny D

You can also do this with paint shop pro:

File - export - Jpeg optermiser (this brings up a new box) - go to compression and increase (remember increaseing compression reduces quality but there should be an example pic for you to view). If you use this in conjuction with the picture size you can easily get it below 75kb.

Most programes have the same sort of function check you help option under compression.

Jonny.

joakimlinden

Do not use Paint since it has no resampling algorithms, which means it will discard pixels that do not fit instead of interpolating between the pixels that are about to be removed. This results in a very choppy and pixelated image.

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