Resizing Images

How do you guys do it? i have great pics but cant meet the forums standards without destroying my photos. 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 windows image resizer powertoy. It's a free download from microsoft.

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.

picresize.com

Photoshop allows you to resize and do what you want. After you go MAC, you never go back.

If you use photobucket for image hosting you can also resize on that.

I use Resizer.com. It is a very nice online aplication for resizing images.