Q: How do I resize a photo?
A: Carefully.
1. Always keep a copy of the full size version you started out with. So the new size would be named catsmall.jpg if the original was cat.jpg.
2. Keep the new and old versions in the same place. If it started out in a file on your computer called Fluffy, keep them both there.
3. If you lose a photo, click on the Start button at the very left bottom of your screen and choose the word Search.Q: Why would I want to resize a photo?
A: Because.
1. Because sending something 2 feet wide in an email is butt ugly and hard to scroll and see it all.
2. Because in order to make your web page load faster for the viewer, you want little versions of the photo (Called Thumbnails.) on the page with a click on them to open another window with the full size photo on it.
3. Because if you don't use thumbnails on a page with 50 photos, they won't all fit, or load, or whatever.
4. Because a reader wants to scan lots of photos quick and choose which ones to enlarge.
5. Because everyone is doing it and it's for the good of the children. (That works on everything, doesn't it?)Q: What program do I use to resize a photo?
A: Whatever you want or have.
1. In most photo programs, save the photo to 96 wide and let it fill in the height itself. This is thumbnail size. Notice your photo that was huge now has a saved smaller version with another name. You may also save a big photo at half the original size, or whatever size you want. Don't try to save a photo bigger than the original, that trick never works.
2. If you don't have a photo program, try the free PIXresizer "A photo resizing program to easily create web and e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes."
3. If you want to also automatically make HTML web page code for your new thumbnails, try the free Get CoffeeCup Web Design Software (Click on Free Software and More in the upper right corner.)
A totally free, being maintained, part of the Microsoft folks working on it, graphics program WITH a clone function built it. You want a copy of this. You can do layer and clone work. I won't know until I play with it some more, but it's the best I've found and it is intended to be the next step up from the paint program that comes with XP.
PaintNet
http://www.dotpdn.com/
http://www.getpaint.net/
http://www.getpaint.net/features.html
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