Digital Pictures
Discussion
I’m new to digital photography. I’ve transferred my photos to my PC ands each image is about 2.5 Mb. The pictures I’ve downloaded from various websites are about one tenth the size. How do I reduce the size of my own pictures so I can send them to friends and family on e-mail and also upload them onto various forums using something like Photobucket?
For email, you could select the pictures in windows explorer, right click, and select the option "Send to > Email recipient"
You should then have the option to reduce th size of the pics or keep them at their original size.
Better still use something like GIMP
www.gimp.org/
It's a bit like Photoshop.... only free. You'll need to play with it to learn how do do what you want, but once you've grasped the basics, it's a doddle.
You should then have the option to reduce th size of the pics or keep them at their original size.
Better still use something like GIMP
www.gimp.org/
It's a bit like Photoshop.... only free. You'll need to play with it to learn how do do what you want, but once you've grasped the basics, it's a doddle.
Alternatively look on versiontracker.com for photo editing software.
Reducing the size, but keeping the quality high will be one way to reduce the file size.
Another is to reduce jpg quality, but below 8-9 at most sizes, and it starts to look a bit ropey.
There's plenty of "free image hosting" sites where you can store your images in high quality/size and use the url link in your e-mails so others can download them and do what they want with them, rather than clogging up their in-box.
Google will show you which ones are available.
I use webshots.com
Reducing the size, but keeping the quality high will be one way to reduce the file size.
Another is to reduce jpg quality, but below 8-9 at most sizes, and it starts to look a bit ropey.
There's plenty of "free image hosting" sites where you can store your images in high quality/size and use the url link in your e-mails so others can download them and do what they want with them, rather than clogging up their in-box.
Google will show you which ones are available.
I use webshots.com
Agree with wyvern771,
The powertoy that you can find at the following URL:
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Is excellent and does exactly what you want. If you want a full image editing package have that as well. The image resizer was one of the two powertoys I missed most when moving over to Vista Ultimate 64 though I have now found an alternative that does the same (VSO Image Resizer if anyone's interested) and is also free.
Regards
Skier
The powertoy that you can find at the following URL:
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
Is excellent and does exactly what you want. If you want a full image editing package have that as well. The image resizer was one of the two powertoys I missed most when moving over to Vista Ultimate 64 though I have now found an alternative that does the same (VSO Image Resizer if anyone's interested) and is also free.
Regards
Skier
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