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10.26.09
How To Resize Your Images In Windows
 By
Dave Taylor
I took some photos with my digital camera and I want to e-mail them to friends or upload them to my Facebook, but the files are enormous, and uploading them takes forever! Can I make them smaller while still having the photos look the same?
Dave's Answer:
A typical digital camera takes pictures with a file size of about 3 megabytes. This can become inconvenient if you want to e-mail several pictures to a friend or upload a large number of pictures to a photo sharing site like Facebook. Fortunately, it is possible to shrink down the file size of the pictures without changing their appearance.
Confusingly, when you open one of these enormous picture files on Windows, it often opens in a program that shrinks the picture down to fit your screen, which is convenient, but conceals the fact of how large the picture really is.
When I open one of these 3 megabyte pictures in Windows, for example, by default it opens in a program called Windows Picture and Fax Viewer:
In order to shrink down the file size of the picture, you need to open it in a different program called Paint. Right-click on the picture file, and on the right-click menu, pick "Open With >", and on the sub-menu, pick "Paint" (the list of programs that appears on your sub-menu will be different from the list below, but "Paint" should be listed):
Whoa! When you open the photo in Paint, you may find that the picture is a lot larger than you thought it was. In Paint, my friend's sleeve takes up more space on the screen than was used to display the entire picture in Picture and Fax Viewer:
Continue reading this article.
About the Author:
Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and is
internationally known as an expert on both business and technology issues.
Holder of an MSEd and MBA, author of twenty books and founder of four
startups, he also runs a strategic marketing company and consults with firms
seeking the best approach to working with weblogs and social networks. Dave
is an award-winning speaker and frequent guest on radio and podcast
programs.
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