Windows Picture & Fax Viewer

[Joy]

Trying to help a friend make pictures smaller. I don't use Windows Picture
& Fax Viewer myself; I prefer Picture Manager. What I don't know, is if
P.M. only comes with MS Office? If that's the case, my friend doesn't have
Office; and will HAVE to use Picture & Fax Viewer. How can he make pictures
smaller in that? I'm not familiar with how it works, and I don't want to
risk opening it myself in my computer (if I can even find it) because I have
my pics all set to open in P.M. and I don't want to change that!

 

[Mike Williams]

Trying to help a friend make pictures smaller. I don't use Windows
Picture & Fax Viewer myself; I prefer Picture Manager. What I don't
know, is if P.M. only comes with MS Office? If that's the case, my
friend doesn't have Office; and will HAVE to use Picture & Fax Viewer.
How can he make pictures smaller in that? I'm not familiar with how it
works, and I don't want to risk opening it myself in my computer (if I
can even find it) because I have my pics all set to open in P.M. and I
don't want to change that!

PM comes with Office 2003.

Picture and Fax Viewer has no editing ability - by default, its Edir
function njust opens the file in MSPaint where you can - clumsily resize
a file.

A better solution is either

* the Image Resizer Powertoy:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

* Picasa (using its Export function)free software from Google:
www.picasa.com

 

[terry_b17]

Joy
take a look at picasa 2 a free program for organizing and working wit
digital photos . it is available a
http://picasa.google.com/index.htm

Terr

 

[Joy]

Does Picasa only work with digital photos? This person has varied photos
which he has scanned into his computer.

 

[Mike Williams]

Does Picasa only work with digital photos? This person has varied
photos which he has scanned into his computer.

Once they have been scanned they ARE now digital.

 

[Joy]

Oh, OK, wasn't aware of the right terminology <S> I was thinking of photos
taken with a digital camera. Thanks.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Oh, OK, wasn't aware of the right terminology <S> I was thinking of
photos taken with a digital camera. Thanks.

An image taken with a digital camera, one scanned from an image taken with a
film camera, one scanned form a handpainted piece of paper, and one created
iwth a software painting tool are all identical. They are all digital images
and can't be told apart.

 

[Mike Williams]

An image taken with a digital camera, one scanned from an image taken with a
film camera, one scanned form a handpainted piece of paper, and one created
iwth a software painting tool are all identical. They are all digital images
and can't be told apart.

Except by mathematicians ;-)

 

[terry_b17]

Joy
picasa supports several image files including .jpg .bmp .gif .png .ps
.tif
it also accepts raw data from canon , nikon , kodak , minolta an
pentax digital cameras
Terr

 

[Joy]

As I had said, I have/use Picture Manager, but I downloaded picasa on my
husband's (Win 98) computer so I could work with it to help my other friend.
I downloaded, and installed it, but it won't open! Any suggestions?

 

[Joy]

P.S. I found out I had to change the resolution and the color quality. And
then I found out you can't resize a picture yourself; it will apparently
resize it to send by e-mail, BUT it only gives 3 e-mail options.

Re: the color quality needing changing; had to do that earlier this evening
in order for TurboTax to open! Never ran into that before with ANY
program.

 

[Mike Williams]

P.S. I found out I had to change the resolution and the color quality.
And then I found out you can't resize a picture yourself; it will
apparently resize it to send by e-mail, BUT it only gives 3 e-mail options.

As I said before, the EXPORT function will resize images, and there
should be a big EXPORT button near the bottom of your screen.

Re: the color quality needing changing; had to do that earlier this
evening in order for TurboTax to open! Never ran into that before with
ANY program.

I can't imagine what the color quality of an image has to do with
TurboTax being able to open or not. There seems to be a big ....... that
needs to be filled in.

 

[terry_b17]

Joy
the current version of picasa requires either windows 2000 or xp .
version for windows 98 or me is available on the hardwar
requirements page at
http://picasa.google.com/features/requirements.htm

you can select any size print from wallet to full page using the prin
layout prior to printing . As Mike said you can also adjust the siz
using export to folder

Terr