OK, I posted, months ago, a response to a query re. how one gets pictures from a good digital camera onto TBN, given the rather stringent compression needed (< 100kb). I recommended using Microsoft Picture Manager, a fairly uncomplicated program included in the Microsoft XP operating system - so if you're working in a Windows environment, you've already got the program on your computer, and you're set. Well, not quite, as it takes 4-5 mouse clicks to get from the photo to the compressed version that is required for TBN, and some who sent me personal messages were confused, and some seemed to have add-on programs on their computers that hi-jacked jpeg files into a format other than the generic Windows stuff.
OK, understood. REAL SIMPLE AND RELIABLE, REGARDLESS OF ANYTHING ANYONE HAS EVER LOADED ON MY COMPUTER, INCLUDING MY CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN, is good.
Got it.
So, try, if you've a Microsoft system - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
That gets you to a Microsoft company web page with free utility software - some useful stuff like a calculator, the Tweak group and so on. Download "Image Resizer".
Now, when you put a photo on your desktop or wherever, all you have to do is "right click" on it, and somewhere in the menu that will appear is "resize image". Click on it. Select "small". You'll get a photo in the same folder (like your desktop or wherever) that has the same name as the original, followed by "(small)"; in other words it does NOT mess up your original photo, but rather makes a second version, much smaller in kilobytes. The "small" photo will be less than 100 kb in size - so TBN will take it.
Works in any Windows XP system, doesn't mess up any other program, and doesn't appear until you right click on a photo file.
Yup, Picassa on Google is fine, as are lots and lots of other programs (I use Photoshop for major stuff), but nothing is as idiot proof and non-obtrusive in a Windows system as "image resizer". It's always there, it never launches until you right click on a photo, and promptly disappears once you've resized the photo. For once, Microsoft has provided a freebee that is useful.
OK, understood. REAL SIMPLE AND RELIABLE, REGARDLESS OF ANYTHING ANYONE HAS EVER LOADED ON MY COMPUTER, INCLUDING MY CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN, is good.
Got it.
So, try, if you've a Microsoft system - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
That gets you to a Microsoft company web page with free utility software - some useful stuff like a calculator, the Tweak group and so on. Download "Image Resizer".
Now, when you put a photo on your desktop or wherever, all you have to do is "right click" on it, and somewhere in the menu that will appear is "resize image". Click on it. Select "small". You'll get a photo in the same folder (like your desktop or wherever) that has the same name as the original, followed by "(small)"; in other words it does NOT mess up your original photo, but rather makes a second version, much smaller in kilobytes. The "small" photo will be less than 100 kb in size - so TBN will take it.
Works in any Windows XP system, doesn't mess up any other program, and doesn't appear until you right click on a photo file.
Yup, Picassa on Google is fine, as are lots and lots of other programs (I use Photoshop for major stuff), but nothing is as idiot proof and non-obtrusive in a Windows system as "image resizer". It's always there, it never launches until you right click on a photo, and promptly disappears once you've resized the photo. For once, Microsoft has provided a freebee that is useful.
