Picture and fax viewer

T

Tory

I am trying to make a picture smaller that I have already
save to my pictures and have no clue as to how to
accomplish this task. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
 
Y

Yves Alarie

It depends on what you mean by "smaller" and what you want to do with the
"smaller" picture. But here are some directions.

Image Resizing



A. 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) added.



The first time you use it, you may not see Resize image on the opening menu
after you right click on the file. 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.



B. To decrease the size of the photo to print on a specific paper size or to
crop the photo



You can download the free software from here:

http://irfanview.com/

This software can also do a lot more. Anything you want to do, click on Help
and you get detailed instructions.



If you are into cropping and printing at home, Qimage is very good. A little
more learning to do but the best for cropping and resizing, up or down, and
printing multiple photos on a page. You can try the demo version here:

http://www.ddisoftware.com/qimage/



Finally you can use photo editing software such as:

Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 or

Microsoft Digital Image Pro version 9.

They are about $50.00 with the usual mail-in rebates.
 

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