[W4S]

Well, I am officially the last person in the world to buy a digital camera. On Saturday I picked up an HP R727 point & shoot, primarily so I can finally catalog my bike trips. The problem I'm having is re-sizing the images so I can post them, mine are about 1.5 MB and 2800x2100 which doesn't work here. There must be someway to resize the pics after I've already shot them, right?

 

[CHOP]

Your camera should have came with software to do this. Look for HP Photo and Imaging Director. You can go to sites such as www.photobucket.com and upload your photos. To post them here just copy the url from the pic into the thread.

 

[binary visions]

http://www.irfanview.com

Download & install it. You can do all of your image resizing with it quickly and easily, instead of loading up whatever mediocre program came with the software.

I usually resize my web images to 800x600, and save them at about 85% quality.

I second the suggestion on Photobucket. They just upgraded their free accounts to a ton more space.

 

[sanjuro]

btw, if you have Microsoft Office installed, there should be a very nice picture editor, which I use to resize my images...

 

[Changleen]

When I have a bunch to do I do a batch job in Fireworks or Photoshop.

 

[gmac]

Where is the picture editor in Office located ?

 

[binary visions]

Where is the picture editor in Office located ?

Start/Programs/Microsoft Office Tools/Microsoft Photo Editor

 

[Wordbiker]

If you are running Windows XP, a very handy resizer is available from Microsoft's Powertoys page called Image Resizer. It can do single or batch resizing with a right click, and is by far the fastest way I've found to resize images for web use.

 

[Transcend]

XP powertoy. On OSX, create an automator routine with preview.

 

[Pau11y]

http://www.irfanview.com

Download & install it. You can do all of your image resizing with it quickly and easily, instead of loading up whatever mediocre program came with the software.

I usually resize my web images to 800x600, and save them at about 85% quality.

I second the suggestion on Photobucket. They just upgraded their free accounts to a ton more space.

I'm w/ BV on this. I've been using irFan for years. It's nice and compact and does a lot of the rudimentary things most ppl need. Plus it's free and can read just about any file format.

 

[binary visions]

Hmm... I knew about the XP Powertoy, but I'm curious what kind of resampling routine it uses. Transcend, you're a photo guy - what do you think of the resampling routine? IrfanView's is great, best I've seen outside of Photoshop or a specialized image resizer like GenuineFractals.

 

[Transcend]

Hmm... I knew about the XP Powertoy, but I'm curious what kind of resampling routine it uses. Transcend, you're a photo guy - what do you think of the resampling routine? IrfanView's is great, best I've seen outside of Photoshop or a specialized image resizer like GenuineFractals.

When I use my pc for things, i use the powertoy for everything. It looks pretty damn good, I'd say as good as photoshop resizes.