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Resize Photos for upload to Forum - ronmarabito2002 - 04-26-2005 05:14 Photo Re-sizing for Web Sites By R.E. (Ron) Marabito Here on the Yahoo Wanderlodge Forum, we have a severe limitation on photo file sizes and it is necessary to make sure everyone on the Forum can easily do this when they want to upload a photo. What we need to do of course is to limit the file sizes to 25Kb in size. There are numerous FREE software packages that do this as well as Photo Editing programs such as PhotoShop, PhotoShop Elements and even Microsoft Office Picture Manager that many of you have as a part of Microsoft Office. The simplest software for folks using Windows XP is a Microsoft Power Toys software called Image Resizer. Just go to Google and put the name in. It is really neat and easy. Just right click on a photo and then select Resize Picture. It will give you several options. Just select Small or Handheld PC. It shows the screen sizes in Pixels. Click OK and it automatically saves the new photo to the same folder. It is now ready to upload to email or a web site. When you get to the web site, there are several toys listed on the right side of the screen. Click on Image Resizer and download. What is really neat is the fact that you can resize on- the-fly when working in a document. Pause in your document, go to photos and right click on it to resize and then insert the photo right after it is saved. I don't have any experience with members using Mac Computers, but according to Mike Bulriss, PhotoShop and PhotoShop Elements are available for those computers. Other FREE software includes the following and then some: Picasa2 Irfanview PIXresizer Jury-Rigged Photo re-sizing Photo Resizer by Photo Album Software Since Mike Bulriss has experience with Picasa2 he sent me the following: Picasa2 works only on PC's and is one of the best free software products available. You can download it from Google.com by clicking on the "more" or "other" tab on the far top right of the search bar. When you first download it, Picasa scans your computer for picture files and catalogs them for viewing and access. Simply pick a picture by clicking on it. Then under "File", click "Export" to place a copy in a file from which you will upload to the Forum. When you click on the "Export" you will be given the opportunity to select the pixel count of 300 to make the picture size about 25 Kb. You should upload the picture to the Forum Photo Section. With Microsoft Office Picture Manager, simply go to My Documents/ My Photos and right click on a photo you wish to re-size and select Open Photo. This will open the photo in Picture Manager. Select Picture from the menu across the top. This will open a drop down list of commands. Click on resize. This will open a menu on the right side of the screen. Under "Resize Settings" select the arrow under Predefined Width and Height for a selection. Select the Email â large and it will give you a file about 25Kb. You can select a smaller one, but it might look pixilated when uploaded. You have to save the image. For those having PhotoShop, just go to file browser, select a photo. On the menu across the top of the screen, select Image and a drop-down list of commands will appear. Select Image Size. Pick a size of pixels for either the width or height of the photo. Make the longest edge of the photo a maximum of 300 pixels and save the photo as a JPEG and title it Web-Small or Email. You can then upload this image to the web site. PhotoShop Elements should be similar. I hope this is helpful and all the photos uploaded to our Forum will be the proper size, preventing us from running out of space. R.E. (Ron) Marabito, Moderator Wanderlodge Forum |