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How To Resize Pictures

Started by shadragon , Sep 13 2008 01:45 PM

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#1 shadragon

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Posted 13 September 2008 - 01:45 PM

I was asked how to resize pictures without cropping them. I use a commercial photo program, but it costs several hundred dollars to buy. I went out and found a FREE graphics package that does many image tweaks. Plus, I found an animation to show you how to use that program to resize your photos. :birthday:

Remember the site will only accept GIF, PNG and JPG / JPEG images. This software will convert file types as well.

The animation example is here... and you can download the program here...

This should make many peoples day easier...

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Posted 13 September 2008 - 03:40 PM

You're da man, Simon! That looks like a simple software to use, and you can't beat the price! :birthday:

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Posted 13 September 2008 - 04:53 PM

Thanks Simon! This means MANY cool pictures from our members should be coming soon!

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Posted 14 September 2008 - 09:32 AM

I was asked how to resize pictures without cropping them. I use a commercial photo program, but it costs several hundred dollars to buy. I went out and found a FREE graphics package that does many image tweaks. Plus, I found an animation to show you how to use that program to resize your photos.

The animation example is here... and you can download the program here...

This should make many peoples day easier...

As always, if you have questions feel free to ask.

Hi--thanks for the tip on this package, just a heads-up for Apple computers:it seems they don't have a version for Mac OSX users. They said it had too many problems. :cool2:

...... so I'll keep looking because iPhoto is not my fave..... :hiya:

Upon further exploration, the developer has now made a "beta" version of a multi-platform program. So I may look at that....

SusiQ

Edited by susiq, 14 September 2008 - 09:35 AM.

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Posted 14 September 2008 - 09:54 AM

Hi--thanks for the tip on this package, just a heads-up for Apple computers:it seems they don't have a version for Mac OSX users.

Ask and ye shall receive... MAC friendly photo programs...

EasyCrop

Drag-n-Scale <==== This is freeware.

DropPic <==== This is freeware.

iResize At top of list of programs when you open this page.

Cannot make a recommendation as I do not use MAC and cannot download them to try. However, one of the ones above should help you out. :cool2:

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#6 susiq

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Posted 14 September 2008 - 10:00 AM

Hi--thanks for the tip on this package, just a heads-up for Apple computers:it seems they don't have a version for Mac OSX users.
Ask and ye shall receive... MAC friendly photo programs...

EasyCrop

Drag-n-Scale <==== This is freeware.

DropPic <==== This is freeware.

iResize At top of list of programs when you open this page.

Cannot make a recommendation as I do not use MAC and cannot download them to try. However, one of the ones above should help you out.

WOW!!! Simon, thanks so much!!!! I really appreciate it and BTW the other guy's Mac version did not work on my MacBook so there you have it. i'll check these out.

S :cool2:

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Edited by susiq, 14 September 2008 - 10:00 AM.

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Posted 27 June 2010 - 08:34 AM

What I use to do a simple resize of a photo is the Microsoft Photo Editor that came with my PC.

I open the picture, click on IMAGE, then click on RESIZE. Depends on how many pixels you're shooting in (I typically get pictures that are between 1Mb and 2Mb in file size out of my camera), so when the box opens up asking for WIDTH, I enter something between 3.00 and 3.50 and I usually end up with a picture that has been resized small enough to upload on SD.com.

I then SAVE AS with -b in the file name so I don't lose the original image!!! Then I upload the -b version to SD and then I can get rid of it.

If you've seen any of my photos in the SD Gallery, you've seen the end result of this method. Works pretty well, is fast so I can resize lots of pics in a short amount of time.