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CaptJack:
re-sizing jpeg photos for message boards

for all of us who work on Windows PC machines,
we can use the built in MS "Paint" program to re-size our digital photos before we post them.
this is a here's-how I put together
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Resizing photos in Microsoft Paint

How to re-size jpeg photo files on a Windows PC
even if you don't have any type of photo editing program
the program "Paint" is built into the WINDOWS OS operating system.

A full sized jpeg file from my digital camera is 3776 x 2520 pixels.
I need to reduce the size of these files to post them on a message board
or to upload to a photo album / slide-show account like Flickr or Picasa

On a Windows PC machine > Open your Paint program (it's in Accessories)
under "File" > Open - a large, original jpeg photo file

If I go to Image > Attributes - it tells me the pixel size of the file I just opened



I need to make a file that is around 600 pixels wide &or no more than 600 pixels tall.
Using a little simple math,
divide 600 pixels by 3776 pixels and we get a fraction = .1588
which means that 600 pixels is around 16% of 3776 pixels
Using 16% we go to Image > Stretch/Skew
and change both Horizontal & Vertical to 16% > OK



when I look at the Attributes of the new file it reduced it to 605 x 404 pixels
which is perfect for message boards, emails, photo slide-show sites

Now re-name (Save As) this new file !!
Do not save the file by the same name where it is stored now
You will destroy your original large pixel file

bbqchef:
Nice explanation... I do it in PhotoShop Elements... Same girl, different skirt.

Keymaster:
That's  a great tutorial Capt.
I recently set my camera to take 640 X 480 pictures for normal everyday forum pictures. No resizing necessary.

sliding_billy:
Nice post Capt.  I use Photoshop (sort of my industry but not as much as yours) as well, but surely there are folks with no editing software.  Microsoft Office Picture Manager works OK for quick resizing as well (and is on many computers).

sliding_billy:

--- Quote from: CaptJack on April 10, 2013, 03:10:41 PM ---
--- Quote from: Keymaster on April 10, 2013, 02:32:45 PM ---That's  a great tutorial Capt.
I recently set my camera to take 640 X 480 pictures for normal everyday forum pictures. No resizing necessary.

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you really should shoot everything in your max/full size file and re-size for posting
you never known when your going to need a bigger file for a print

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+1 You never know when you are going to need a 36X48 glossy of your food pron.  :D

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