How do I make all my pic smaller?

[Guest]

When I download my pics from my digital cam to my computer they are all
between 1900KB and 2300KB. How do I make these pics smaller when I am sending
them through msn messenger. Is there anyway to change the KB size in all my
pictures in My Picture file on my computer? I do know how to change the size
when sending them via e-mail. Another question is WHY!! Why are mine so big
when I download them when my sister has the same cam and when she dowloads
them hers end up being like 29 KB's and mine are 2000 KB's?? Please help!!

 

[Paul Ballou]

You need to changing the settings on your camera if you want the pictures
smaller when coming from your camera....I would personally recommend taking
the pictures at the largest size possible then resizing a copy on your
computer this way you guarantee yourself a quality image at the smaller
size....You can use Irfanview www.irfanview.com to batch resize a number of
images at the same time

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[Yves Alarie]

You can set a camera to save a photo at different quality.
The higher the quality selected, the larger the file size will be. Look in
your camera manual and you will find settings like High quality or Fine
quality or Standard quality or e-mail quality. Your camera is set for high
quality your sister's camera is set for the lowest quality. Lowest quality
is fine for e-mail, but not for printing. If she tries to print, the quality
will be very poor.
So what do you do?
1.Keep your camera on the highest quality setting so that if you want a
print it will be good.
2. When you want to e-mail, reduce the size of the file so you can e-mail
easily, but without reducing the size of your original file.
Several ways to do this as described below.

To decrease the size of the file for e-mail, web publishing, etc.



Go to this site and download the free Image Resizer. Exe file in one of your
folder.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Once in your folder, double click on it to install it.

Once installed, you right click on a photo file (or on a group of selected
photo files).

Click on Resize image on the opening menu.

A window will open, select the size you want.

New files will be added in your folder, same name as original file but with
the word (small) or (custom) added.



The first time you use it, you may not see Resize image on the opening menu
after you right click on a photo file or if you see it and click on it, it
may not work. If so, do the following:

Click on Run, click on Start and type the following in the textbox:

REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL

and press the Enter key.

Note that there is a space between ...32 and SHI.

You should get a "success" message after pressing the Enter key.



Also, you can download a free photo editing software from here to resize
pictures and edit photos:

http://irfanview.com/

or another free software:

www.faststone.org

From this last one, you can directly e-mail a picture and it will
automatically resize it.

Another free one to do the same is:

www.picasa.com



Picasa has a nice feature to exchange pictures with friends under "Hello"



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