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Resize digital pictures quickly
Half the fun of taking pictures is sharing them with family and friends.
While it's great that newer digital cameras can take beautiful 5-, 6-, or 7-megapixel pictures, e-mailing such large photo files can clog up your recipient's Inbox. Resizing pictures before you e-mail them—or even before you burn them to a CD—is made simpler using a free Windows XP download called the Image Resizer, which is one of the many handy tools that make up the Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP.
You can also use the Image Resizer to resize photos so they'll fit on a compatible cell phone, personal digital assistant (PDA), or Portable Media Center so you can enjoy your photos while on the go. Using the Image Resizer is easy, and it will preserve your original photos for other uses you may have in the future.
Using the Image Resizer
You'll want to begin by making sure your pictures are well organized. Because your digital camera probably gives pictures an arbitrary and confusing name, such as dscn0809.jpg, be sure to rename your photos to something easily identifiable at a glance, such as flowers.jpg. Ordinarily, it's recommended that you make a backup of your original digital photo before resizing it. However, Image Resizer creates a duplicate file in the same folder as your original and resizes the duplicate; your original picture file is not altered in any way during the process.
1. | Open the folder that contains the pictures you want to resize. In Thumbnail view, right-click any picture you want to resize, and click Resize Pictures.  |
2. | In the Resize Pictures dialog box, click the size you want your photo to be, and click OK. In general, Small is a good selection for most of your needs, such as e-mailing pictures or posting them to a Web site.  |
3. | The original file, flowers.jpg, is still intact; and a new, resized file, named flowers (Small).jpg, has been added to the same folder.  |
3 comments:
whats wrong with using picasa to resize?
tudrxe
yeah, well picasa is nice to use when we want to email pics out... there's nothing wrong with it...
i use to use this a lot for before picasa and its useful if you want to recompress your pics...
quality doesn't drop THAT much trev... 90% of people out there do not own SLR's so the quality of their pictures won't even be noticeable... a 1.5 mb file versus a 200kb file... its a pretty good trade if you can't tell the difference...
better than taking pics at 640x480 all the time, right???
and now that you gave ur warning... ppl who don't know any better will not download this tool... because u know what? even tho they can't tell the difference they are going to be butthurt about it and think that there IS a difference just because some guy said so... when in reality, they can't...
here it is folks: if you own a laptop that has a resolution of 1280 x XXXX or smaller, then this is perfectly fine for you....
oh yeah, does the quality drop dramatically when you resize the picture to its same original size? try it out... i don't think its that noticeable unless you have SLR and zoom in to the max zoom...
try using pics from ur other camera... i doubt u could tell the difference when u full screen the picture
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