How to Resize Your Pictures
So you decide to take a few pictures and show them off on the Photo boards of DDN. As soon as you finish all the hot-linking, you realize – all your pictures are so huge, you’d have to scroll horizontally.
Isn’t it annoying? Yes, we’re annoyed by that too.
Hence, my guide on how to resize your pictures:
If you have Office XP/2003, you should have
Microsoft Picture Manager:
Double-click on the file, and it should be opened by Picture Manager.
Click on
“Edit Picture”
…and on the right, click
“Resize”
Click on
“Predefined width x height”, and scroll down to
“Web-large” or
“Web-small”, and click okay. Go to File, Save, and you’re finished. Then you can upload to Photobucket, Tinypic, Imageshack, or any other picture hosting site for hotlinking. Resizing your pictures will prevent a page from stretching horizontally.
You can also resize your pictures with other image editors. The point is to downsize it to below 800 x 600 pixels (somewhere around there).
For example, in
Adobe Photoshop
Open the file, and go to
“Image” on the menu bar, and
“Image Size”.
The nice thing about Photoshop is that you can type in one value for either width or height, and it automatically calculates the other value, so your pictures don’t get distorted.
I normally don’t use Photoshop for a small task like resizing, since it takes quite a while to load on my ultra-slow computer.
Since
Paint exists on all Windows operating systems, I should probably include it too.
Open the file in Paint, and go to “Image”, “Stretch/Skew”. I wouldn’t use “Attributes”, since redoing the pixels will crop your picture.
Type in 50% (or whatever size you wish) for both horizontal and vertical values, and you’re done.
~fairy
