RE: Pictures - Upload ?

[Mrchile]

How can I reduce the size of my pictures to upload them to the message board - Thanks Bruce

 

[Clifford Powell]

This is a great program for resizing, converting and other common graphics tasks. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles like $300+ programs but I have found it to be reliable and pretty bug free. Unlike many 'free' programs out there there is no spyware that I'm aware of.

As I'm a programmer by trade it's amazes me this guy gives this software away.

You can go to his web site and download:
http://www.irfanview.com/

Or go to download.com

The download is about 900k

Hope this helps

Cliff - - - -

 

[Varmint]

you can use the Windows XP Powertoy Image resizer. It is along the right-hand side of the page linked.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

The image resizer does an edequate job for posting, and you have several sizes to select from (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 and a custom (you type the dimensions)). You can also (advanced) choose to overwrite the original (not a good idea unless the original is a copy!).

Nice thing about the tool (once installed) is you simply right click on a picture file you'd like resized, select "Resize Images" and select your options before the resizing proceeds. You can also select a group of pictures to be resized, all of them will be resized according to your one chosen preference.

Photoshop or another high end tool will do a better job, even allowing you to select the method used to resample the image, but for the short term, the FREE (powertoy) is a great tool. I own Photoshop, but for posting I almost exclusively use the Image Resizer Powertoy. Fast, convenient, free.

DAS

 

[GraveDiggerMax-VaBch-Va]

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