Shrinking photos

[Kyle Barker]

is there a way to make pictures smaller? Mine are over 1mb each pic and are way to big to fit one the screen. Thanks for any help.


kyle

[Big Mike]

Any good image or photo software should be able to do the trick.

[Kyle Walkinshaw]

What kind of camera are you using Kyle? Mine has a little button that make a "quick pic" making a copy of the 1mb image at about 50 -60 kb, if you have a digital camera maybe you also might have something like that.

[Kyle Barker]

ya a friend of mine instructed me on how to use my cam (its a hp 720). Its got a button that takes diff size pics. Thanks for all the help.

kyle

[Lisa]

For more control I suggest using an image program such as Paintshop Pro or Adobe Photoshop.

[zouleous]

Try Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com). It's freeware and does a pretty good job.

Z

[Kyle Barker]

Thanx for all the help. I will hopefully get adobe photoshop soon.

[depressor86]

cant you just use paint and save them as jpegs?

[Lisa]

Originally posted by depressor86
cant you just use paint and save them as jpegs?

windows paint only will do this on XP, and even then it's cropping and resizing features are limited and clumsy at best.

[Edwin]

hear, hear. I am using the edit and resize functionality in Paint in Windows XP, and it has really limited features.

zouleous, I am going to give Irfanview a shot, thanks for the tip.

[Kyle Barker]

Me too when my internet starts working faster.