.. because no one likes looking at 2400x1600 pictures from a nice digital camera on an 800x600 screen!
5-Step MS Paint Resizing Procedure:
1. Find a file
(IMG:http://www.brahm2.com/xs/resize/1.jpg)
2. Right Click > Open With > Paint
(IMG:http://www.brahm2.com/xs/resize/2.jpg)
3. In MS Paint: Image > Stretch/Skew (or CTRL-W as a keyboard shortcut)
(IMG:http://www.brahm2.com/xs/resize/3.jpg)
4. Stretch the image down to a reasonable size. Enter 50% for both values to start off, and see how it looks.
(IMG:http://www.brahm2.com/xs/resize/4.jpg)
5. What was once a huge image is now slightly less huge! Use File > Save As to save, so you don't overwrite the original large file, then upload it and post it!
(IMG:http://www.brahm2.com/xs/resize/5.jpg)
PowerToys Image Resizer
A better solution, if you are running Windows XP, is downloading Image Resizer as a part of Powertoys.. it is available here:
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| http://download.MS.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe |
(replace MS with "microsoft" in the URL!!)
You can right-click an image in Windows Explorer to resize it using this utility... fast and easy.
I use the photo resizer in Micorsoft Word and Internet Explorer. I post photos on-line to my Yahoo Gurop (one for my famiily, and an 2nd one for fans of Taiis form the Sonic Games (zahs1.tirpod.com/tailspower)). The Yahoo Gurop is right now only Message posts my users, and I modareat it.
lright, thanks