How do I resize pictures so I can download them to Reader's Rigs?

[Chipstien]

How can I shrink Pics from 650Kb to 128Kb. Ican't figure this darn thing out. :{

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

You need some form of graphics software that will allow you to resize - Adobe Photoshop, Lview pro, Ulead Photoimpact are just a few. Then you do an image resize and make it into a smaller image (like if it's a 1024x768 image try making it a 640x480). Then if you save it in JPEG format there is a quality setting - you can turn it down to 5 and lose almost no quality but reduce the file size by about 10 times.

 

[Chipstien]

Thanks Steve, at least I know that I was in the ballpark. I have some software that came with the digital camera and I was doing as you said but it wasn't working. I will play with it more tonight.

 

[DLysne]

resizing pictures

Also, you may want to check to see if you have Microsoft Photo Editor, which I believe comes with Windows (correct me if I'm wrong). Just click on Image at the top and select resize. If you're not sure if you have photo editor just search your c drive (hard drive) for photoed. exe.



For the Windows XP users there is an image resizer that you can download from microsoft. I am using it and love it. The link is below:



http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...aseID=38291&area=search&ordinal=1&redirect=no



Go to the link above and and on the right had side about half way down there is an imageresizer. exe. Once downloaded and installed all you have to do to resize a picture is right click on the file and select resize. (You can also do multiple) When you resize by default it will just make a copy and preserve the original.



Hope this helps,



Dan

 

[Deezul1]

Can be done with MS Paint also, go to image, stretch /skew and in the boxes that say 100% change them to 60% and save as .jpg see if it works, if not reduce it some more and it will.