Resizing Photos

[nick crisp]

A lot of my photos aren't accepted on various sites and need to be resized apparently. Anybody know how I do this?

[ogri48]

Nick I'm crap at anything IT related, but I googled free photo resizer, and got a lite version that works perfectly. Can't remember the name of it and don't use the laptop now just the iPad so dunno what it's called but there's lots mate

[Kosmic Kartman]

Try this natty bit of software.

Will resize single photos or do batches to verious sizes.

http://pixresizer.en.softonic.com/

I've used it for years and is very easy to use. Alternatively Adobe Photoshop has a similar batch handling engine.

[nick crisp]

Cheers Kosmic, but before I try it, I do have a photobucket account. Pics come up size 1024 x 768 or thereabouts in resize window, anybody know what kind of dimensions I need to go down to, to get photos accepted? Sorry, I am the techno-dimwit I appear to be  :rolleyes

[wezdavo]

Cheers Kosmic, but before I try it, I do have a photobucket account. Pics come up size 1024 x 768 or thereabouts in resize window, anybody know what kind of dimensions I need to go down to, to get photos accepted? Sorry, I am the techno-dimwit I appear to be  :rolleyes

I use this one; http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/

I set the pixels at 800x600 on most forums..

[nick crisp]

Can it be done just on the computer rather than in photo dedicated site?

[wezdavo]

Can it be done just on the computer rather than in photo dedicated site?

yes bud

[nick crisp]

Thanks guys, sussed it with your help  :thumbup

[FuZzBoM]

If i want to resize 1 or 2 pics i use MS paint. just open the picture, Go to 'resize' and i tend to do 50%. you can specify pixels but you may mess the ratio up.
Also the added bonus is most cameras capture n raw and are fairly large. simply opening them and saving them will compress them.

for doing batches of pics I use this app http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDownload.htm

[nick crisp]

If i want to resize 1 or 2 pics i use MS paint. just open the picture, Go to 'resize' and i tend to do 50%. you can specify pixels but you may mess the ratio up.
Also the added bonus is most cameras capture n raw and are fairly large. simply opening them and saving them will compress them.

for doing batches of pics I use this app http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDownload.htm

I found if I reset the pixels on one dimension, it automatically resets the other, retaining the original ratio. I also made sure to create a copy to edit, in case there's ever any reason to use the original size.

[simonm]

[quote author=nick crisp link=topic=10414.msg108924#msg108924 date=1382551562]
Cheers Kosmic, but before I try it, I do have a photobucket account. Pics come up size 1024 x 768 or thereabouts in resize window, anybody know what kind of dimensions I need to go down to, to get photos accepted? Sorry, I am the techno-dimwit I appear to be  :rolleyes

I use this one; http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/

I set the pixels at 800x600 on most forums..
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I recommend this one too.  It will add a context option in windows explorer allowing you to resize an image with a single click without modifying the original.  Brilliant.