Is there an easy way to resize photos? I have been using Paint, and it is really time consuming. Any help would be appreciated.

There have been mentions of software applications that can gang resize your photos, but the easiest way it to take them with fewer pixels to start with.

Your camera should have a menu function where you can do such things as put on the date/time stamp (if your camera has that) or choose the resolution of the picture. Scroll through your options and experiment with various sizes until you find one that is appropriate for your size needs.

The camera I most frequently use has the possibility of 4.1 megapixels, which is pretty small compared to many cameras out there these days. It is primitive enough that it offers me a choice of "Fine" or "Standrd". I am assuming "Fine" is using the full 4.1 megapixel capacity and I just leave it on "Standard".

I also have a Kodak EasyShare that is a 12 Megapixel. The menu will allow me to reduce the picture as low as 1.2 Megapixels or crank it up to the full 12 Megapixels. I keep that camera at about 6 megapixels and only use it when I need higher quality photos (very rare in this business). Even at 6 megapixels I get relatively few photos off a set of batteries while my other camera set on "Standard" will take lots of photos before a battery change is needed.

A smaller picture (fewer pixels) makes a smaller file so you can upload without needing to resize.

Thanks so much Flash....blessings

autumnicole Wrote:
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> Is there an easy way to resize photos? I have been
> using Paint, and it is really time consuming. Any
> help would be appreciated.

The easiest is the following (if DECREASING pixel size is your aim which I presume): Copy and past your picture into a PowerPoint slide and then save that slide as a JPG file (which PowerPoint gives you the option to do when you click "Save As". It will convert file size of a 3MB picture to approx. 100KB without compromising picture quality. - Quick and easy solution.

Dannedan, can that be done to a group of, say, 20 pictures at once or is it a one at a time thing?

I agree that setting your camera can be the easiest, but my work camera is also my personal camera so I keep it set high. Picture Manager works well for me. It can resize and rotate groups of photos. I also like to rename them with something like a job id and have it number the photos for me. It really has made quick work of something that use to get quite tedious.

The menu option to change resolution on cameras is generally so easily accessed and changed that it takes little more time than checking that the batteries still have any oomph. Certainly software that would gang rename photos to a job id that could then be modified to include any additional data needed would help.

The jobs I typically do require less than 15 photos and they are easily enough opened in Photoshop, color/brightness adjusted and saved with a useful name that it works well for me. But I really dislike typing out a job id number over and over and somehow a copy and paste of the job id number too often goofs when I do it.

Been there done that with transposing id numbers! I use to change the settings on my camera, but invariably would forget to switch it back I wish I'd discovered Picture Manager sooner. For gas audits in particular it's nice. I put the id on all the photos and then go back and highlight photos such as the pumps. I then just type in the word pump after the id and it numbers them sequentially. It goes really quickly, but does take a while after I hit save all. While waiting for my slow PC to catch up I just move on to other things.

@ FLASH: You can do it to as many pictures as you like... If you have 20, just paste those on 20 different slides and save as JPG. During the save process, Powerpoint will ask you "Do you want to convert just the current slide or every slide in the presentation"? Select "Every Slide" and PPT will create a separate folder for you in which each slide is saved as its own, stand-along JPG. Super easy, efficient and quick.

Is 450 KB or 502 KB a goodd size to use to upload photos? How about 915 KB?

I think that pretty much depends on the requirements of the particular MSC you're uploading for. I like to upload the upper range of whatever their requirements are so they get nearly the best resolution possible.

Pobo35 Wrote:
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> Is 450 KB or 502 KB a goodd size to use to upload
> photos? How about 915 KB?

autumnicole Wrote:
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> Is there an easy way to resize photos? I have been
> using Paint, and it is really time consuming. Any
> help would be appreciated.

I agree, initially take the pictures with lower resolution. I use the free Picasa software from google. They have a really simple export function that allows you to resize the pictures. Picasa is awesome, easy to use and FREE!

Use Microsoft office picture manager.
It comes free with windows. It has two tabs, edit picture and auto correct. Edit picture has a resize. It also is an easy way to crop. Be sure to hit oK and save.

I found that irfanview is very good too. A technical guy from one of the MS companies told me about that. My camera is so ancient it can't be specially set in any way but that program woks beautifully.

If you are using a Windows-based computer, using the Image Resizer is by far the easiest and fastest way to resize photos. All you have to do is open Windows Explorer, find your files, right-click on your file name and select "Resize Pictures." You can even select multiple files and perform the function on all of them at once. If you're running Windows 7 or Vista, go to [imageresizer.codeplex.com] to download the plug-in. XP users download from [download.cnet.com]