Resizing digital pics

namaimo

hey!
Just wondering can anyone help me out Im new to the whole digital camera scene.. Im having problems resizing pics which i have taken with the camera and then transfered to my pc. the file sizes are quite large is there anyway to make them smaller? so i can put them into emails etc. Thanks!

Gordon

If you are using windows XP you can right click on the photo and -send to- > mail and when you send it it asks you if you want to reduce the size of the pictures.

If you don't have that option - do you have any programs like Photoshop or Image editor?

namaimo

I do have windows xp but i just tried it there and im not sure it worked or else i didnt do it right. it said do i want to resize all photos and i hit ok but it hasnt done it... i think i have photo editor but im not too sure, can i do it in mspaint?

Gordon

Sorry, not sure about MSPaint.

But if you use the email program to resize the pic you do it like this.
right click etc
it then shoudl bring you to your email program and a new mail should be there with attachments in it. ? does it do that?
If so then SAVE the email (close window and save as draft).
Then get the mail from the drafts folder on your email program and save the attachments on to your desktop.

This is a real botch job workaround until you find a program on your computer (maybe MS paint does it) that will do this task you need.

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.irfanview.com/ - free for non-commercial use
File - Batch conversion , if you want to resize a load of pictures in one go

fletch

You can resize them using Microsoft Office Picture Manager

secret_squirrel

You could also try downloading paint shop pro - the older versions are free. It has a bit of a learning curve but its a comprehensive image editing proggy.

Incidentally I usually drop my pics down to 25% of their original length and width for mailing.

BrianD3

Usually when you buy a digital camera a basic program for viewing and editing images is included in the box. Eg Olympus cameras come with Olympus Camedia software, Pentax cameras come with ACDsee software etc. You should be able to resize images pretty easily using one of these programs. Just have a look in the menus for the resize function. Reduce the number of pixels to say 50% or 25% of the original number of pixels. Make sure to keep the same aspect ratio i.e. if your original image is 1600 x 1200 pixels you could resize it to say 800 x 600 pixels but not 800 x 800 otherwise you'll get a distorted image! Oh and remember to "save as" your reduced images and give them new filenames so that you can keep the full size originals without overwriting them

BrianD3

Capt'n Midnight

secret_squirrel wrote:

You could also try downloading paint shop pro - the older versions are free.

Where ???
I used to have some cover disks with unrestricted version of PSP but can't find them

secret_squirrel

hmm Im sure i've seen it on downloads.com - I have v5 free from a coverdisk if you want it - just pm me its 120meg so I can drop it on a cd for ya.