digital pictures

gun_runner

Ive been struggling with this. How do you make the digital pictures stored on your computer small enough to send? Right now If I send two its big enough to take up all the space of a mailbox. Thank you in advance for your help.

Larry

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There are a number of ways to optimize a photo for the net. One of the main ones is to crop the photo in a paint program so that there's no empty space around the item you are showing, and then reduce its actual size (dimensions in inches or pixels) to a reasonable height and width. Another is to save the picture as a JPG. A better way is to use a program like Paint Shop Pro or PhotoShop and choose the Export or Save for the Web commands to select the perfect size. Another trick is to reduce the number of colors to 256, which will reduce a file's size considerably, even if you save it as a JPG later. But most people whose pictures are too large are too BIG dimensionally, and need to be "Resized" in a paint program so that the actual dimensions fit in a Window comfortably. If, when you open the picture, you see something indicating that the picture on your screen is 1:2 rather than 1:1, you are seeing it reduced rather than actual size -- and it doesn't need to be that large to be viewed on a PC monitor. This is only the tip of the iceberg but it should spark some ideas as to how to begin. I'm sure even if you don't have any fancy paint programs you must have MS Paint on your PC, and you may find something like PhotoDeluxe packaged on your printer or scanner software CD.

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quote:Originally posted by gun_runner
Ive been struggling with this. How do you make the digital pictures stored on your computer small enough to send? Right now If I send two its big enough to take up all the space of a mailbox. Thank you in advance for your help.

Larry


You can crop a photo or reduce its resolution (reduce its size). This can be done in any basic image editor like Microsoft Paint, which all Windows computers have. In Microsoft Paint, an image is cropped simply by clicking and dragging the little blue squares on the left and bottom of the image and moving the sides in. (You may need to temporarily rotate the image horizontally or vertically to crop the other sides.)

To reduce the image size, press Control W. You need to adjust both the horizontal and vertical dimensions. (Set the same percentage to each.) Whatever percent you type will be the new size. For example, if you type 50% horizontally and vertically, the new image will be half the size of the original. (It is unadvisable to use Microsoft Paint to enlarge images, as you lose resolution.) Then simply save the image, and you?_re ready to send it.

Note: Microsoft Paint opens Bitmap images by default, but if your image is in some other format, you can still open it with Microsoft Paint.

If it?_s in bitmap (BMP) format, convert it to JPEG or GIF, which take up much less space than bitmap images. Microsoft Paint usually screws this up, so I recommend using Adobe Photoshop to convert file types. (Go to ??Save as?? and choose ??save as JPEG?? or ??save as Compuserve GIF.??)

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