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Resizing Images

Warsco

Warsco

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How do you guys do it? i have great pics but cant meet the forums standards without destroying my photos.:headbang: any help on what you guys use would be great
 
I guess it depends on how big the images are, but if it's such a hassle you could always crop out part of the image to make a thumbnail and then externally host them all, using the thumbnail as a link to the larger image (giving image dimensions under the thumbnail, for people with slow connecions).

Or maybe use GIMP?
 
I use Thumbs Plus to get them down to 800 x 600 pixels, <280KB. They still look decent. I stay right at the upper limit of file size, though. Thumbs Plus lets you save the image, after you resize it (which really cuts down the file size to begin with) at 99%, 98%, 97%- and shows you the new file size, so you can save the max allowable size. I also crop them down as much as possible before resizing.
 
If you use Windows... Just go into MS Paint, open the file, find Stretch/Skew, and enter 50% in stretch to make it half size, etc. It's the simplest way.
 
I use Photoshop...not really something I'd recommend for just resizing photos, but since it's what I have available, it's what I use. Irfanview will resize photos. GIMP will crop/resize stuff. The photo editor through G+ also allows photo editing/resizing.
 
Photoshop allows you to resize and do what you want. After you go MAC, you never go back.
 
Light Image Resizer is HANDS DOWN the very best image resizer. I'm a photographer so you bet your boots i use this thing every single day. you can select any number of photos anywhere on your computer, and right-click to open the program.
 
I use IRFANVIEW (free download) and you can use it for batch conversion .
A lot of pictures resized in one time , renamed to your wish and saved on same or other location if you want . You can use it to cut the best part of your picture and make a new one from it . For a few pictures you can use resize / resample for more : the option of batch conversion .
 
I just open the picture to view it push print screen and then paist that on paint I do it this way because if you open it with paint its waayy to big to deal with so once you do that just get rid of everything that's not the picture and it will be almost the right size so when I do have to make it smaller its not compleatly destorted.
Everything I do I use paint lol its just the easy way for me
 
With MS Paint, I resize by doing this:
CTRL + A
Image >> Resize/Skew
10% in both horizontal and verticle
click OK

But again, I use Photoscape.
 
well, I am new in this forum. I don't know about this forum.
 
kgmax1228 said:
picresize.com :cool:
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As long as this thread got resurrected by a spammer!

I use picresize too if I'm away from my laptop.

I switched from PC to Mac last November, and lost my beloved ThumbsPlus. I started using Lightroom, though, for general editing and wow, do my photos look a billion times better than they did straight out of the camera...I mean, the detail that I was able to recover is amazing. The camera to computer to editing to resizing for forum use process is a bit more awkward, but the end result is worth it. Lightroom lest me process the current group of photos and then batch export them, resizing to preset parameters of pixel dimension and file size.
 
There are 100 options out there really. Irfan view is nice for lots of stuff and it's free. I've got Easy Thumbnails for doing simple resizing without giving much thought. Just right click and say create thumbnail or whatever. I still for the life of me can't understand why the browser itself doesn't have a resizer in it, that would make life much easier for everyone.

I would steer clear of Photoshop, Gimp or Paint for something like that, it's just overkill. Of course, maybe you like to actually edit the photo some, that's a different story.
 
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