Picture re sizing

[FrenchChuffed]

i need to reduce the megapixel size of my pics to post on the forum. Can anyone recoment a more intuative one (ie for computer illiterates) I have been trying to use PIXresizer but i get lost in loading the pictures as it only shows ther number not the actual picture. Is ther a better program or am i using it wrongly?
Thanks Guys. o and galls

 

[Rhinochugger]

I use Picassa, it's free and to re-size, you view a picture in Picassa (when you look at the picture Picassa will automatically open up) and then you 'export' it (there's an obvious tab) and when you go to export it, you can adjust the pixel size.

I've used it for years and I'm a simpleton

 

[FrenchChuffed]

isnt microsoft stoping using Picassa?

 

[Gizzy]

I use the resizing function in MS Paint to reduce picture size.

Just changing from 100 to 50% will give you a four fold decrease in size....

 

[David1226]

I use Microsoft Office Picture Manager that comes with Windows 10



David

 

[Rhinochugger]

isnt microsoft stoping using Picassa?

Dunno - it still works fine on my computer, but then, it's been there for a few years

 

[The Shed]

isnt microsoft stoping using Picassa?

Google stopped supporting Picasa on March 15, 2016. No more versions were released, no bug fixes issued, and no support offered.
However, if you already have the software installed, it will continue to work. If you want to keep using Picasa, you can.

Version 3.9.138.150 for Windows available from here, download picasa free (windows)

 

[PhilP]

Another vote for MS Office Picture Manager.. - IF you have MS Office, or course!

 

[Rhinochugger]

I notice that someone gave my post a thumbs up.

I'm assuming that they're concurring with me that I'm a simpleton

 

[kedwards]

I just click on the 'Insert Image' icon, drag and drop a picture into the area where it says Drop Image and then click on the inserted picture. Scroll down and you will see this dialogue box.

The crossed arrows is the picture re-sizer. When you click on it, it says Auto. I type 800 in for the picture width, leave the height blank and click on Update.

 

[dunnyrail]

I just click on the 'Insert Image' icon, drag and drop a picture into the area where it says Drop Image and then click on the inserted picture. Scroll down and you will see this dialogue box.
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The crossed arrows is the picture re-sizer. When you click on it, it says Auto. I type 800 in for the picture width, leave the height blank and click on Update.

Hm a little confused are you referring to the Forum or elsewhere?

 

[FrenchChuffed]

Yes that confused me also, but that is dead easy to do.

 

[ntpntpntp]

Interesting, I've certainly never seen that functionality mentioned before, but yes it does work. Useful to know.

 

[Rhinochugger]

Hm a little confused are you referring to the Forum or elsewhere?

Yes that confused me also, but that is dead easy to do.

Interesting, I've certainly never seen that functionality mentioned before, but yes it does work. Useful to know.

Well, you live and learn

 

[FrenchChuffed]

Hopefully

 

[FrenchChuffed]

 

[FrenchChuffed]

Well it worked on ipad i will look for it on the pc when i get there

 

[kedwards]

Hm a little confused are you referring to the Forum or elsewhere?

The forum.

 

[Greg Elmassian]

Everyone wants this to be simple, but you really should understand that "resizing" a picture is an ambiguous phrase.

The first thing to know is that the X and Y dimensions of a picture are measured in pixels... (Picture Elements)..... basically how many little points of light horizontally and vertically.

This is what controls how "big" the picture appears... as Frenchchuffed listed, way too large for most screens, his pictures are 2048 by 1536 pixels, that is why they are SO BIG !!!

(hint, make most pictures display around 1024 x 768 if you want to fit most pages)...

OK that is what most "resize" operations do, and they normally will tell you in PIXELS what the size is..

But you can run into another problem area....

Size as in the size in Bytes of the file that is the picture..... this is related to the compression of the picture, where a mathematical function is applied the picture to make it still look good, but use less information... changing the compression will NOT change the PHYSICAL size in PIXELS.

Why do I tell you about this? Because really good cameras can make HUGE files in the file size, and may take forever to upload, display, or the site just flat refuses to display.

So you want to be aware of both. Good software programs let you control both "types" of "SIZE".... crummy ones will only do the PHYSICAL size in PIXELS.

I use IRFanView, for the last what 20 years, free, comes in 64 bit version and does both PIXEL RESIZE - called resize in the program, and FILE RESIZE - called compression in the program.



Greg

 

[GAP]

i need to reduce the megapixel size of my pics to post on the forum. Can anyone recoment a more intuative one (ie for computer illiterates) I have been trying to use PIXresizer but i get lost in loading the pictures as it only shows ther number not the actual picture. Is ther a better program or am i using it wrongly?
Thanks Guys. o and galls

From one computer illiterate to another what I do is for forums usually the US ones.

• find the picture on my cameras SD card right on picture
• then click on "send to mail recipient"
• when asked by my email program (MS Outlook) I select default size ( 1024 x 768 )
• then save to desktop or USB stick
• then post from Desktop or USB to forum

For this forum and all the other UK based ones, I just find the picture by using "attach files" and download from either SD card or USB then add either full image or thumbnail forum takes care of the rest.

eg

Thumbnail

Full Image


From my experience the software used by UK sites are easy to post on, but the US ones make you jump through so many hoops that I have reduced my picture posting to a bare minimum.