dumb question about uploading pics...

[jesserin]

Okay - bear with me as I am dummy 101 when it comes to computers... Does anyone know how or where I can go to shrink my pictures so they are smaller KB and less pixels?


TIA for any help y'all can offer!

 

[Monty]

If you "right click" on your file on the computer, you can choose "Edit" instead of "Open". That should bring the pic into a photo editing program. Then you can reduce the size of the picture in the program [different programs do it different ways, it'll be called "resize", "reduce" or "Stretch/Skew"].

What I do is "save as" with a new name before experimenting. Generally, you can reduce the size in terms of a percentage horizontally and vertically, so long as both percentages are the same, it'll maintain its original ratio.

Hope this helps.

 

[jesserin]

Monty, I did exactly as you said but when opens with Edit it goes to paint - I can change it and adjust it - but not resize, reduce or stretch/skew... I can also open it with Explorer, or Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Thank you for your help... is there something you can think of that I did wrong?

 

[Monty]

Monty, I did exactly as you said but when opens with Edit it goes to paint - I can change it and adjust it - but not resize, reduce or stretch/skew... I can also open it with Explorer, or Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Thank you for your help... is there something you can think of that I did wrong?

Ok, in Paint:

Go to "Image", click on "Stretch/Skew".

There are two areas, "Stretch" and "Skew". In "Stretch", reduce the percentage of Horizontal and Virtical equally, click "ok", have a look at the resultant size by clicking on "attributes" [also under "image"] and if you like it for size and pixels, "save" it.

It's easier to advise once I know which program :animwink:

 

[jesserin]

You are my hero!!! thanks so much!