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Shrinking Pictures


MichiganShootist

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I have a number of pictures that I want to up load to the 1911forum (stuff to sell).

The majority of these pictures are jpeg files and are in the 500 -800 kb size range.

The www site has a size limitation of 100 Kb per picture... so how can I shrink them???

Thanks for any available tips.

Mark

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For quick resizing I use the free XP power tool Image Resizer. It will take an 3504x2336 (8MP) photo at 2.2MB and resize it to 800x640 at 55.6KB. The link to the download is located below. This will only work on Windows XP.

Image Resizer

This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click.

Download it Here:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whi...wertoySetup.exe

Step by Step Instructions:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/d...eschelman2.mspx

Here's an alternative for Vista users:

http://pcwizkid.blogspot.com/2008/08/windo...ge-resizer.html

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I know that the start of this thread was for a simple way to re-size an image, but if anyone would like to try out more advanced photo editing I would recommend using Gimp. It is very similar to Adobe Photoshop, but it is free. It can be found here: www.gimp.org.

Joe

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Thanks for that. I was wondering, I'm pretty comfortable in Photoshop - would what be the advantage of experimenting with Gimp?

be

I haven't used Gimp as much as Photoshop but it seems to do everything that I'm used to doing in PSCS2. I have it installed on my work laptop because they won't shell out the $$ for a graphics program and will only let me install something thats free or open source. The quality seems to be the same as far as photo editing and basic logo design.

For home use, I am thinking of switching to Gimp rather that shelling out the $$$$ for the next version of photoshop.

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