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I'm no expert, but these are a couple of things I've done.crazy8 said:
Use MS Paint or some other application and save it as another type it might be smaller as such. I think gif format might be the smallest. The resolution won't be as sharp.
Cut out the part of the pic you really care about and paste it in a new image you'll be saving less data it will be smaller.
That is a lot to reduce it by though.
If you have Microsoft Office, then just right click on the picture file and say "Open with" and choose microsoft office picture manager. Once it opens like that click on the "picture" tab and choose resize.
If you don't have Office, open using microsoft paint. From there, choose the "image" tab and click "stretch/skew" then resize accordingly.
Worth noting... that to go from 900kb to 100kb, you don't have to make it 9x smaller. Try reducing by 50% or so.
If you don't have Office, open using microsoft paint. From there, choose the "image" tab and click "stretch/skew" then resize accordingly.
Worth noting... that to go from 900kb to 100kb, you don't have to make it 9x smaller. Try reducing by 50% or so.
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How to reduce
Nims, I hate to break this to you, but a viewer is only to view pictures, you can not save the new reduced picture which has to be done before uploading the picture to a website.
Serif gives away several free programs, one of them is Photo Plus 6.0, which is a photo editing program. It can reduce the size of your picture by percentage or pixals. It is the best FREE photo editor I have found.
Here is the website with free downloads:
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
There is also a thing called 'Supertools' for Windows. One of the tools is that it will make where you right click on a picture and can adjust size either large, medium, or small. Do a google search for it.
For clarity and size, you should save picture under the .JPG extension for pictures.
Nims, I hate to break this to you, but a viewer is only to view pictures, you can not save the new reduced picture which has to be done before uploading the picture to a website.
Serif gives away several free programs, one of them is Photo Plus 6.0, which is a photo editing program. It can reduce the size of your picture by percentage or pixals. It is the best FREE photo editor I have found.
Here is the website with free downloads:
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
There is also a thing called 'Supertools' for Windows. One of the tools is that it will make where you right click on a picture and can adjust size either large, medium, or small. Do a google search for it.
For clarity and size, you should save picture under the .JPG extension for pictures.
You could try this:crazy8 said:
Open Photoshop and create a new file with the same dimensions, but set the target resolution to the size of the file u want.
Set the large file into the new PSD and it will work, but will definitely ruin the quality, but use ur filters/presets to circumvent this. It won't circumvent much, but it can be done.
crazy8 said:
Right click on the image file icon (on the desktop or in the explorer window) and select Edit. Assuming you don't have any special image editting software installed, it will open in mspaint.
[Alternatively: Start->All Programs->Accessories->Paint and go to File->Open and select the image and click Open.]
In Paint, go to Image->Stretch/Skew. Change the percentages (one for each axis) from 100% down to 50% and click Ok. Play with this and cuting the desired portion that you want out and saving until you are under 100 KB.
Save the image as a GIF if it is few colors and ridgid edges, like an icon and save the image as a JPEG if it is from a photograph that involves fading and anti-aliasing. That will be the smaller format for each case...
Post questions here when you have more problems...
Here
are the 'Power Tools' I told you about: (I called them Super Tools before)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
The image resizer is handy to have, the calculator that can graph is also handy. Pick and choose which ones you want.
Bookmark it so you can go back later on too.
are the 'Power Tools' I told you about: (I called them Super Tools before)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
The image resizer is handy to have, the calculator that can graph is also handy. Pick and choose which ones you want.
Bookmark it so you can go back later on too.
Snapshot9 said:
Quite a presumptuous post! Office picture manager certainly does have the ability to resize, I do it almost daily. I also suggested another option using paint. Why in the world would you recommend downloading software to someone who is obviously not computer savvy for such a simple problem?
Use paint, you already have it. Don't waste time installing other things that you don't need...
Trust me, I know what I'm talking about.
Trust me, I know what I'm talking about.
one reason you might want to consider installing something anyway is because paint doesn't let you set the quality level of the jpeg, you only get to resize it AFAIK. Resizing is probably necessary, but the quality setting makes a huge difference so you won't need to make it too small. For example I took a 953 KB jpeg and put it from level 10 to level 5 and it went to 314 KB without being shrunk, and it still looks good.
crazy8 said:
I use the Microsoft Power Toys for Windows XP Resizer found here. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx
First find the pic you want to post and right click on the pic, click resize and chose medium size and click OK. This will create a new resized copy.
Next go back to the thread you want to post in click post reply, quote or start new thread then scroll down and click on manage attachments. Browse for your resized pic and upload.
Next just above the window where you type your message find and click on the small paper clip icon. Your pic description should drop down and click on it and the pic should attach to your post.
Hope this helps.
Steve
This link should work.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx
As stated previously, you shouldn't rely on just resizing the image in order to shrink file size. You might end up with a pretty small picture. You need to do a combination of both. First shrink it to a size that's acceptable for posting here (maybe 4"x6") then save, adjusting Jpeg quality to get the proper file size. Of course you need something like Photoshop to do this.
If you must change the image quality of a JPEG, download the Gimp. It's free, and it's awesome. You can find many tutorials on using it, as well.