Image resizing
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Image resizing
Hello there, can anyone advise me how to resize an image when I post it before the Mods eat me? Am I supposed to adjust something in the post or do I do it in Photobucket?
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Ginger
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Ginger
Nice-but-dim
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From: Rural Yorkshire
Providing you are running windows XP - try 'powertoys'. This add-on from Microsoft includes amongst other things a really handy integrated image resizer. I use it all the time.
TheVillagePhotographer.co.uk
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Irfanview is a wonderful and free program that every photographer should have and yes - everyone else with pictures too. Can't speak highly enough of it. Resizing one or a thousand pictures is an absolute doddle. Go get it! 
Conan
Conan
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From: The spiritual home of DeHavilland
You can do it in Photobucket Ginger There's a toolbox under the images that allows you to resize by 50% or 25%. Just click the appropriate radio button and it does it for you. After resizing there's no need to do anything else - the image in the 'pictures of everyone' topic or whatever is pulled from the Photobucket link, so the topic image changes to match.
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From: Twickenham, home of rugby
GM, if you have MS Photo editor (I can't remember if it is a Windows accessory or an Office accessory) you can easily do it - just open the image and choose Image / Resize - I find it simplest to change units to "Pixels" and enter 640 as the width - as long as you don't have Allow Distortion it will automatically enter the other dimension for you.
I know it is fine for BMP and JPG - don't think I've tried it with anything else.
SD
I know it is fine for BMP and JPG - don't think I've tried it with anything else.
SD
. Now all I need is some decent photos to post 
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From: I'm the asshole next door
I use Serif PhotoPlus 6.0
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
Very easy to use, and many more functions tham Irfanview.
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
Very easy to use, and many more functions tham Irfanview.
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I once typed up a bit of info on how to use MS Photo Editor for some basic tasks, including how to get it installed again. It resides on another forum, but here is the link: http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=47482 (Mine is the third post, but the others might be useful as well).
Red On, Green On
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From: Between the woods and the water
Irfanview very simple to use, and you can set it up to batch process your images to a size (pixels or %), batch rename them, etc. Crop, add text, in fact most things you need to do.
And it's free
And it's free
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
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From: Chabanais, France
This one does a good job and it is also free: http://www.tinypic.com
Per Ardua ad Astraeus
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From: UK
You may find this thread from 'Spectators' of help?
