Photos too big to upload?

Hunter S

Im trying to upload some photos to Friendster and its telling me they are too big. Any advice on how to make them smaller, bareing in mind i know very little about this sort of thing and dont know how to use Photoshop or anything.

thanks

smeggle

Simple and easy to use program called 'Irfanview' would do the job for you. you can re-save the image in any format, such as jpeg which will vastly reduce size.

Also has a resize function to make the image smaller.

Linkies

http://www.irfanview.com/ home site

downloads
Irfanview Main Program

and you'll also need this

Irfanview Plugins

Install the main program - then the plug ins. Watch what file associations you allow it to set by default. I only select images though it will play nearly all audio and movie formats - amongst other things, like batch thumbnails, batch resize..

Just about the best free lightweight (But bloody powerful!) image manipulator and media player I know of. Very handy tool

Tony H

http://www.virtualzone.de/resizer
jpeg resizer very quick and easy to use

TerrorFirmer

You could also just use MS paint in about 5 seconds :rolleyes:

stevenmu

irFanView will let you do a batch conversion, so you can pick all the photos you want to upload, pick your options and do them all in one go.

Peteee

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

Get the image resizer. Integrates it into the windows shell, right click yer pictures and resize em. Voila

Hunter S

Thank you guys!!

gerryk

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Picasa. It's a great little photo tool. Get it from http://picasa.google.com/index.html