Ok, you've taken your snap; your happy with it and have saved it to its own little folder.
But when you go to use it on one of these wonderously easy to use trading sites, it tells you the pic has to be less than 500 kb.
How do you reduce the pic size?
2006-08-20 02:38:50 · 8 answers · asked by John S 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Try converting it to gif format by using "paint" (",)
You can resize your pic also by using "Paint"
2006-08-20 02:48:58 · answer #1 · answered by danielpsw 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The following three options can be accomplished by using a GREAT free program called IrfanView. You can get it from www.download.com .
Option one: Resize the picture to smaller dimensions.
Option two: Reduce the quality of the image, but leave the dimensions the same.
Option three: Reduce the color depth from say... 32 bit to 16 bit. This also reduces quality, but it can get your pic a smaller file size.
A JPEG is actually already compressed, so there really isn't anything else you can do that I'm aware of. You could try converting to a PNG or GIF, but again, that reduces quality.
2006-08-20 02:47:13 · answer #2 · answered by CJP 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you got Photoshop you can use the "Save for web" option that reduces file size without much quality loss. I think other picture processing programs got such feature too....
2006-08-20 02:44:12 · answer #3 · answered by itifonhom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if your running on a windows xp
right click the picture and click open with
on the menu that comes up click windows photo editor
now on the top menu click Image>resize
on that menu change the units to pixels
make each side less than 550 pixels
then save
now it should work
2006-08-20 03:46:21 · answer #4 · answered by sniper9802858 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey
well open the file on paint (if you have photoshop its better) but paint is easier to use and more friendly. Please open paint and open the photo than in paint tool bar a button called Image and than click on stretch/skew and reduce the photo by 50% or howmuch ever u need. this will work for sure. thankyou
2006-08-20 02:43:01 · answer #5 · answered by FUCFRM_2003 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Whichever method you use I always first make a copy of the original photos to work on just in case.
2006-08-20 02:47:12 · answer #6 · answered by migelito 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if your using windows xp, you would right click your folder and choose to send to compressed folder, that the folder or file would be in zip format and much easier to send to someone in the email or messenger
2006-08-20 02:48:39 · answer #7 · answered by gordbzz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reduse its resulotion, number of colors, and if the image is a bitmap, convert it to JPEG
2006-08-20 02:44:13 · answer #8 · answered by happy_84 k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋