 fancy putting some pics in the gallery but how can i shrink them to the permitted size? the only software i own is the bog standard stuff you get with windows xp and the olympus camera software , that i cant think of its name.
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 If you have outlook or express a simple way, if you have nothing else, is to right click on the pic and choose Send To, Mail Recipient. XP will then ask you if you want to reduce it in size. Click ok and it will shrink them and put them in an email ready to send. Go to File, Save Attachments and save them with new names in your Pictures folder (I keep a separate one for all reduced photos just in case I forget to rename!!)
If you haven't got outlook or express there is sure to be some freeware out there that you could use and I bet someone here knows about it. Good luck.
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 The 640x480 size is only a guideline really. It's more to encourage you to shrink them down so they a smaller file sizes, so you can then put more up!
Theres technical stuff that happens that shrinks it to a nice display size, but you don't have to worry about that.
Ay is right about using outlook to do that. Off the top of my head I can't think of a program to shrink them, i'm using PSE at the moment to do stuff like that
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I found this. Shrink Pic looks good. I haven't tried it though. http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/gmm/fwgcomp.html
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That ShrinkPic looks very similar to something Jonathan has for his mac (didn't remember the name because I don't have one), but it looks very useful. I may give it a go...
Unfortunately its got one big problem, for me at least, in that you can't use it to easily resize images and then save them, it just works when you are emailing or uploading photos. Which is a shame, not sure i'd like it doing that to ALL my photos.
Should be ok for your needs though Luke
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 1) Get a Mac
2) Get EasyCrop from YellowMug.com totally awesome picture resizing app - actually get their whole bundle cos it's all cool.
That's probably a bit excessive to crop a picture but if you've already done step 1 then step 2 is a must ;)
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its the file size thats the problem theres a 250kb size limit and mines at 650ish
i'll have a play with outlook next time im near the pc where the image is saved.
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cheers guys just the job.
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If you have XP then you can go to the microsoft webpage and download a power toy called "image resizer". Then you simply right click on an image and you have an option to resize, easy.
Here's the web page
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
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And now we have a tutorial on this very subject ;)
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Luke. Look for picasa on the net,
it is a free download and quite a good image storage and manipulation package. Might not resolve your problem but, if all you have is bog standard, what have you to lose.
http://picasa.google.com
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 Go check out http://gimp.org/ It is an opensource G-raphical I-mage M-anipulation P-rogram, hence named GIMP. It will do most of what photoshop or paint shop pro will do - the tools just have different names or are found in different places so it might take a while to learn it, otherwise quite good. Certainly capable of simply resizing a picture.
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 Thanks for all the suggestions above. I'll try them out when I have a little more time to spare. Can I ask if anybody has had any problems with Picasa, as a friend downloaded it and then had quite a few things go wrong with their harddrive, and had to have it replaced. Could there be "spyware" as part of Picasa which messed up the harddrive, as I believe it "searches" the computer hardrive for all images each time you open it, or is it just a coincidence? Sorry for all the questions, as I love taking photographs - hence why I joined up here - but am not very technically minded and trying to get more adventurous with manipulation of my images, so any help received would be great.
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