Resize Your Photos

Hey, that's a great photo, but it's WWWWAAAAAYYYYYY too big! Have you ever run into this? You want to take a simple picture for your Blog, or to email, but wow, it is HUGE.

With more megapixels (resolution) available on new cameras, this means the actual filesize of the picture is going to be bigger as well. I'll show you how to resize your photos and shrink them down for easier sharing.

Click this link; It's from Microsoft.com, and it's made especially for Windows XP. (NOT VISTA!) Select RUN - but if you happen to SAVE, you'll have to install it once it downloads.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

Once this installs on your computer, you WILL NOT see any program icon for this. You will only see it when you RIGHT CLICK on a photo, and you'll see the "Resize Pictures" option in the menu.

Before we move on, let me show you some examples of WHY you would want to do this.

Here is the original photo. HUGE! It won't fit on the page, you have to click on the image to see the whole thing. Depending on the resolution of your monitor, you may only see a little tiny bit of it from this blog, until you click on it. This photo is in it's original size of 3456 X 2304 pixels, and 4.2 MB in size! That's the size of a song, or even a movie clip.

Scroll down past it to see some examples of smaller sizes.



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Here is a more manageable size of the same photo, for easier viewing, but it STILL may be too big for the application you're using. This one is sized at 800 X 533 pixels, and is 92 kb in filesize. You can also click on this image to view the complete photo. There is a smaller one below.



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And here is maybe an even easier size to view, especially on these blogs where you don't have the full width of the monitor for viewing. This is 640 X 427 pixels and is 64 kb in filesize. That's roughly 1% (one percent!) the size of the original, so it's much easier to download, email, and display. You can also click on this image to view the complete photo.



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So, depending on the picture, you MAY want the large size if it has a lot of scenery or panoramic views. But if it's your child's mess he left in the kitchen, you really don't have to have crystal clear resolution to show the world. If you are EMAILING some photos, you may only be able to fit 2 of your original photos per email. But if you resize them, you could probably fit 100 of them! (depending on the size)

The latter two photos were resized using this tool I linked to above. Now let me show you how to use it.

Once it is installed, you will not see any program icon on your computer. It will only appear when you RIGHT CLICK on a photo, and you'll see the "Resize Pictures" option in the menu. It will look like this:



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When you select Resize Pictures, you will get some options for which dimensions you'd like.



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You can also select Advanced to manually enter your own dimensions.

After you hit OK, you will see a COPY of your original image, only smaller, somewhere within the same folder. It will have the same name as your photo, but will be followed with a (small) or (medium) name.

Give this a try, and I can also add some other options with photos and blogs later. Thanks.

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