Guide to Resizing your Photos

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This guide will use Irfanview as the photo resizer program. You can download it here.

Step 1: Open up the application. You should see this screen.


Step 2: Open up the picture to be resized using the File-Open. In this case I'm using a rocky shoreline picture.


Step 3: It's time to resize the image. Click the menu as shown below, or simply press Ctrl-R.


Step 4: You'll see this menu. On the right there're some standard dimensions of pictures that you can select. I recommend 800x600 pixels because that is the biggest you can go without skewing the screen when you post a image here. On the left you can manually type in the dimensions you desire.

[benny]

Here's an alternative to resizing pictures...

http://www.shrinkpictures.com/

Simple and easy. Check it out.

Cheers,

[fishkipper]

i never knew it would be this easy, thanks alot bro.

[floquimad]

Great work .. really informative .. and thanks a lot for sharing .

[neverwalkalone]

Mods, just wondering if you'll "enable" the BBCODE for IMG size tags so we can size it accordingly in the post rather than edit/resize the actual picture itself before posting (the other stickies).

Curious. Thanks in advance

[vinz]

That is not a good practice. If we do that, then we will end up with lots of threads with large images and each time someone opens such a thread they will be downloading very large files and that will greatly increase downloading time.

[neverwalkalone]

Hi Vinz,

Thanks for the response - however, I think the image size (in pixels) displayed does not correlate with the (file)size of the image ie, a larger image (pixels shown onscreen) does NOT imply a larger file (in kB) downloaded. The resize tags is simply 'stretching' and for all intended purposes - 'shrinking' the displayed image, the size of the file downloaded remains the same.

I believe the current vBulletin server may already have the "limiter" in place to prevent large images from being displayed (downloaded). :-)

Thanks for the consideration.