Trouble re-sizing photo's

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Trouble re-sizing photo\'s

Trying to post a few pics and always over the limit. What are you folks using to re-size. I was trying it with Microsoft Picture-it. I must not be doing something right.

Thanks,

Tom

 

[GaryM]

Re: Trouble re-sizing photo\'s

I haven't used PictureIt in a while, so don't remember their menus, but if there's a menu item called image, look for resize or resample.

There are two things you can do, and may need to do both.
1. Change the size of the picture. If for example your camera produces an image 1200x1600, you can change the size to 480x640. This will reduce the file size because there is less information.
2. You can increase the compression level of the photo. Some programs call this "quality". Increased compression or reduced quality down to 50% will show little image degredation. You will not see any difference, but the file will be considerably smaller.

Depending on the starting image size,you may need to do both operations.

And don't forget to save with a new name or into a different folder so you don't overwrite your starting image file.

 

[OkeeDon]

Re: Trouble re-sizing photo\'s

In all the graphics software I have used (probably 20 or more different products), one of the menu items is "Image". Click on Image and look for "Resize". If it isn't there, then your software most likely doesn't have that ability. Microsoft Photo Editor, which comes with Office, has it. I'm currently using Jasc's Paint Shop Pro, which is similar to but cheaper (around $120) than Adobe Photoshop, but both of those are probably overkill (and expensive) if you don't do much graphics work.

Try a google search for "freeware graphics software". There's tons of it out there. Some folks here like Irfanview, for example.

{edit} I was out on google looking at free software myself while posting this, and Gary got in first - didn't mean to duplicate what he said /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Junkman]

Re: Trouble re-sizing photo\'s

Read all about it here.... I made a post about this subject just a few weeks ago...

 

[Inspector507]

Re: Trouble re-sizing photo\'s

I've used several, but the one mentioned here in other posts seems to work real well. Quick and easy.

PIXresizer

Oh yeah......and it's free /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[frank_f15]

Re: Trouble re-sizing photo\'s

don't know what photo editing software u are using but usually there will be something like adjust, resize, etc. for e mailing or posting i like to use 640x480 that seems to work well for me.

 

[woodmills1]

Re: Trouble re-sizing photo\'s

try xat.com

 

[Hoosier_Daddy]

Re: Trouble re-sizing photo\'s

That looks like a good product. Is it worth the 39.00?

 

[jinman]

Re: Trouble re-sizing photo\'s

Another product for $49.95 is called ACDSee from ACD Systems . It is a browser (shows a whole subdirectory of photos as thumbnails) as well as allowing you to do basic color/light adjustments, resizing, rotation, and even cropping of photos. It can save photos in many, many formats. I use it for sorting and quick editing on thousands and thousands of the aircraft photos I use to build aviation training. It's the best I've ever seen at any price. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[fivestring]

Re: Trouble re-sizing photo\'s

I use ACDSee from ACD Systems. It is very user friendly.
When I bought my HP digital camera, ACDSee and the HP software came with it.
I have used Photo Shop products, also, but I always come back to ACDSee.

 

[Bird]

Re: Trouble re-sizing photo\'s

Gary, being a novice, I would have expected any of the cameras to come with software to manipulate photos. I used Microsoft's Picture It! for a number of things, and I also use my HP printer software some for photos, but the primary thing I use is Camedia that came with my Olympus camera.

 

[jinman]

Re: Trouble re-sizing photo\'s

Bird, I'm not sure about the "full" version of Camedia that Olympus offers to let you upgrade to, but the version that comes with their cameras is not what I consider to be user friendly. It works fine and if you learn it, I can see why you would not want to relearn another program. My biggest gripe with it is that it "buries" your pictures about 6 subdirectories down in your Programs subdirectory and it writes a little ".inf" file in each of the subdirectories so it can identify the pictures as an album. If I were to send you a CD full of pictures without that file, Camedia would not recognize the photos. It's a simple little thing, but after installing it with the Olympus camera I got my girlfriend for her birthday, I quickly showed her how to use ACDSee since it operates just like Windows Explorer. If I open a subdirectory full of pictures with ACDSee, it instantly creates thumbnails and an indexed database of photos. In my opinion, it's head-n-shoulders above the rest, but I also know you always like best what you know best. There's nothing wrong with Camedia if it gets the job done for you. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Junkman]

Re: Trouble re-sizing photo\'s

I don't think that you could find an easier to use program than IrfanView....... and what makes it super special is that it is free for the downloading!!!!! Why buy the cow when the milk is free??????

 

[Bird]

Re: Trouble re-sizing photo\'s

Jim, I reckon the very first pictures I made with the digital camera are filed like you said because I let Camedia use its default, but since then I quit doing that. When I download pictures from the camera, I put them in my own subdirectories. Camedia can pull up those directories as well as any other and I have mine set up so they're displayed as thumbnails so it's not too hard to find what I want.