Resizing Photos Made Easy

[MattM]

I've been seeing people are having a difficult time resizing their pictures here in the forum.

Step 1 Open Picture/Photo in Faststone Image Viewer

Step 2 Use Zoom function to resize the view of the picture on your screen (+/- keys)

Step 3 Open PrintKey2000 (use a hotkey or rightclick the icon running in the systray)

Step 4 Select "Rectangle" option

Step 5 Left Click and Hold the Button on the top left corner of the picture, drag the box until it covers up your entire picture.  Notice it tells you how big the picture will be in pixels as you're dragging the box.

Step 6 Click "Save" or go to the File Menu and select "Save As" in order to save your work.

Link#1:  FASTSTONE IMAGE VIEWER v3.5

http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDownload.htm

Link#2:  PRINTKEY2000 v5.10

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,22960-order,1-page,1-c,alldownloads/description.html

Hope that helps the people out there having problems.

[blueyonder]

 hi mattm ive downloaded the faststone  and played about with it.

 its working verry well . and at last i can crop my pics.

  cheers mate  

[miata2k]

Another great tool I found for handling my pictures is Picasa from Google.

http://picasa.google.com/

It is about a 6meg download so not great for people still on dial up.

The software will scan you computer for images and give you album views and different ways to search and sort your images.  It also has some basic tools to resize and correct image colors.

Some of my favorite features are the Upload features.  You can upload to your favorite photo printing site to have pictures made.  You can also upload to a Picasa web album to share your images.  All you need is a free gmail account and you can upload up to 1gig of pictures.  You have the option to resize the images that you upload or send them full sized.  Most of my images are uploaded at 1600x1200 and I have over 100 albums with well over 1000 pictures, all for FREE!

If you really want to see some dog rescue photos you can view our albums at:

http://picasaweb.google.com/RSRcalendar

[ZooT]

I don't think I've seen a digital camera yet that didn't have some sort of menu that allows one to set up both the size and resolution of the pictures it takes....