resizing photos
What software do you use to resize photos?
microsoft office pic manager
compress
for web pages
At least it serves the purpose of posting a viewable pic here in the Cellar.
irfanview.
are you interested in resizing one at a time or batch processing?
irfanview.
are you interested in resizing one at a time or batch processing?
One at a time, to post here.
I like irfanview, because I'm used to it and can do it in a couple seconds with keystroke shortcuts. But it's a pretty basic task and many programs can do it well.
Free IrfanView 4.25 download from CNet:
http://download.cnet.com/IrfanView/3000-2192_4-10021962.html?tag=mncol
I recently started using the pixelate effect to de-identify HIPAA PHI in presentations.
If you save a pic to your desktop, then right click and "open with ms pic manager" then "edit pictures" on top then "compress pictures" on right side then compress for "web pages" it's so easy you can't even stand it.
Why would you need a whole new program, just to resize for here?
There was this one guy once who was making fun of everyone hopping on the Other Browser bandwagon. He said the commonly used browser was just fine.
Ha!
MS Paint.
Image --> Stretch/Skew --> Whatever horizontal/vertical percentage is appropriate.
The Cellar limit is 122+ k. It would be nice to choose a photo, and tell the software that I want it to be x dimensions, and y file size, and POOF, it would happen. In a free application.
You can do that with ms pic manager too, using resize instead of compress.
MS Paint.
Image --> Stretch/Skew --> Whatever horizontal/vertical percentage is appropriate.
I love MS Paint (y'all know I do) but as a re-sizer, it is an artifact machine. I don't "save as" Jpeg with it either.
You can do that with ms pic manager too, using resize instead of compress.
I can't find a download. Google shows all kinds of sites, but it's all just a tease! :mad::brikwall:
you're joking right?
could you raise your right hand when you're joking?
You have to have MS Office for that.
You have to have MS Office for that.
I have Office 2003
right click any pic file > open with > microsoft picture manager>
or...in the start menu, office, office tools
PS Elements is the easiest for me; alternatively, with iPhone pics, I upload them to photobucket, and resize from there
Here's the home for irfanview:
http://www.irfanview.com/
That wasn't so bad, was it?
photostudio 5.5, apparently.
who knew.
an aoutomatic resizer would be nice... ;)
irfanview
I click on resize and then choose the 800x600 pixels option and that seems to work for here. On landscape anyway.
Photoshop, and I use this other program which I don't know the name to and I can't look it up because it's in my desktop, which is not on, so I can't tell you. :D :lol: Rambling on bunch of useless information, yes, I know. I find that funny...hehhehe. The other program, right-click, resize, choose either small, medium, large. Simple, to the point, and serves its specific purpose. I will get the info for Spexxvet tomorrow because I think he'll like it.
there's two types of people in this world, resize queens and liars.
there's two types of people in this world, resize queens and liars.
What are you trying to say? I am honestly confused. :blush:
And I thought sn gave up the juice.
What are you trying to say? I am honestly confused. :blush:
I don't believe that was directed at you, it was more of a carpet bombing. ;)
Oh, I didn't think he was directing it specifically at me. I'm just confused at what he's trying to say. :p:
You're confused? He's confused. :lol:
This thread is like the Billy from Family Circus...going wayyyy out of his way (getting new software) to do something as simple as going home (resizing pics for posting in the Cellar.)
Here's the home for irfanview:
http://www.irfanview.com/
That wasn't so bad, was it?
I got that with no problem, thanks. I wanted to try the ms pic thing, but at this point, I don't think I'll bother.
Spexx, darling...take my hand, let me lead you to the promised land of photo-resize. :)
I posted a photo in Post your pet. It's lame.
Awwww, no, that's a perfectly wonderful picture. How cute is Darla? She should meet Pilau, they'd make a cute couple. :)
What are you trying to say? I am honestly confused. :blush:
It wasn't directed at you, Tulip. It is a joke about there being two types of people:
size queens and liars. Meaning, despite someone saying "size doesn't matter" it really does, they are just not admitting it to you or themselves.
I'm good, now. Thanks for all your help.
No your not, I want to see a good picture of that cute puppy.
Hooray, a winner. He or she?
She. Darla. Wheaten Terrier.
Officer: Ohh! Ohhh! Ah good looking dog isn't it?
Sergeant: She sir, she's a bitch
Officer: Is she?
Sergeant: Yes sir. Ah look out, sir! (the sound of an explosion and someone screaming) Oh blimey.
Officer: Ah sarge?
Sergeant: Yes sir?
Officer: This dog of yours, quite a little stunner isn't she.
Sergeant: Look out sir (sound of machine gun fire) you think they're bringing up the big mortar sir?
Officer: Yes. Does she eh, does she have any friends?
Sergeant: What sir?
Officer: Your dog.
Sergeant: Just the other dogs in the neighborhood sir.
Officer: She doesn't have any steady boyfriends does she?
Sergeant: Oh no sir she is a dog.
Officer: Yes of course.
(sound of far away explosion)
Sergeant: Oh blimey it's getting bad sir.
Officer: Yes, still she would not object to someone calling on her would she sarge?
Sergeant: I am not sure what you mean sir.
Officer: Well I..I..I was thinking perhaps I could take her for a walk sometime.
Sergeant: Oh yes sir, course sir. anytime.
Officer: Thank you sarge.
Sergeant: (yelling) Look out sir! (explosion) Now that's my wife sir.
Officer: Ah you sure sarge?
Sergeant: Yes sir, that's my wife.
Officer: And that's your dog?
Sergeant: Yes sir.
Officer: I see. Looks like I will be calling on you a lot when all this is over.
Sergeant: Oh thank you sir.
Officer: Not at all it's just that I am rather fond of dogs,
She's a good lookin' dog. But the way she's wearing the handkerchief means she's lesbian, dominant, looking for a bull terrier.
Also, I can't stop thinking
Wil Wheaton Terrier.
Ha. Wil Wheaton has been doing some appearances (as Wil Wheaton) on The Big Bang Theory. He and Sheldon have a huge rivalry.
I used to follow Wil Wheaton, back in my Fark days. I got a kick out of seeing him on Big Bang.
Recursive Wil Wheaton is Recursive.
Hwill Hweaton.
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See, this is what I'm talking about...To hell with 'resizing' a pic. My cat does that regularly. What I need is to reduce the size of the FILE. If I take a picture of, or with, grass, or anything green, or with bajillions of edges, getting the pic file under 175kb for the Cellar, and still have it big enough to look at, is damn near impossible. I use PhotoStudio 5.0, for compression I'm trying Web Resizer, not thrilled with it, but still learning the program. Any compressor suggestions?
But but but...that's what I've been trying to tell you. Well, not YOU you, but all y'all. When I use MS Office Pic Manager, sometimes I don't see any changes dimensionally, but it takes it down to the right amount of KBs for posting here.
Again...right click, open with MS Office Pic Mngr, choose edit pics, choose compress, choose for web pages. Voila. A postable pic.
Sigh...
There's gotta be a story somewhere, maybe a proverb or one of Asshop's Fables, where some insect tries to tell all the other insects they're working harder, not smarter, and they ignore him and keep trying to do something that's really easy like stack blades of grass but they didn't like using just ANY tool for the job it had to be a cool tool, but they couldn't get the cool tool to work quite the way their good old-fashioned mouthy teethy tool worked but they still wanted a cool tool, until they all die of some strange disease because they just wouldn't listen to the lowly lay insect who they thought didn't know nuttin'.
[FONT="Impact"]The End[/FONT]
But but but...that's what I've been trying to tell you. Well, not YOU you, but all y'all. When I use MS Office Pic Manager, sometimes I don't see any changes dimensionally, but it takes it down to the right amount of KBs for posting here.
Again...right click, open with MS Office Pic Mngr, choose edit pics, choose compress, choose for web pages. [SIZE=4][COLOR=Red]SAVE AS ... [/COLOR][/SIZE]Voila. A postable pic.
Sigh...
There's gotta be a story somewhere, maybe a proverb or one of Asshop's Fables, where some insect tries to tell all the other insects they're working harder, not smarter, and they ignore him and keep trying to do something that's really easy like stack blades of grass but they didn't like using just ANY tool for the job it had to be a cool tool, but they couldn't get the cool tool to work quite the way their good old-fashioned mouthy teethy tool worked but they still wanted a cool tool, until they all die of some strange disease because they just wouldn't listen to the lowly lay insect who they thought didn't know nuttin'.
[FONT=Impact]The End[/FONT]
[SIZE="5"]You have to have MS Office for that.[/SIZE]
Sigh.
[SIZE=7]THEN GET IRFANVIEW[/SIZE]
See, I always assume everyone has Office. :blush: Carry on.
I found the concept of resizing digital photos an extremely hard concept to get at first, and I'm still not sure I really get it.
Awwww, no, that's a perfectly wonderful picture. How cute is Darla? She should meet Pilau, they'd make a cute couple. :)
This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
I think it's a lovely pic.
It wasn't directed at you, Tulip. It is a joke about there being two types of people: size queens and liars. Meaning, despite someone saying "size doesn't matter" it really does, they are just not admitting it to you or themselves.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh......I get it. By the way, you like to joke, huh? That's a good thing. ;)
I found the concept of resizing digital photos an extremely hard concept to get at first, and I'm still not sure I really get it.
Pixels are another measurement of dimension, like inches. This is why bigger monitors (in inches) are designed to run at higher pixels (#### by ####). A bigger screen fits more pixels. Likewise, a higher pixel camera produces, literally, bigger pictures. When viewed at native resolution, digital photos will often be much, much larger (in inches, and pixels) than your standard monitor (you can't hang a 48 inch painting in a 24 inch frame).
I like the resizing tool in IrfanView because it shows you the dimensions in either pixels, centimeters, inches, or as percentages. Also, when you go to "save as" a jpeg, it gives you a quality slider you can use to further reduce the file
size without changing the dimensions.
See, this is what I'm talking about...To hell with 'resizing' a pic. My cat does that regularly. What I need is to reduce the size of the FILE. If I take a picture of, or with, grass, or anything green, or with bajillions of edges, getting the pic file under 175kb for the Cellar, and still have it big enough to look at, is damn near impossible. I use PhotoStudio 5.0, for compression I'm trying Web Resizer, not thrilled with it, but still learning the program. Any compressor suggestions?
The three pictures that xhaos posted in his baby thread were something like 29 inches wide... way too big to see.
OK, I downloaded them, opened in Photoshop Elements (free program that came with a sketchpad I bought), resized them to 12" x 9" (864 x 648 pixels), at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch, and reposted them.
They are about 80/90 kb each.
By the way, I have Photoshop 4.5 but don't use it because Elements is much smaller and does what I want
Okay, so I tried what Shawnee instructed, just to see how easy it is. Yeah, it was easy, and I did a save as. As I closed the program, it said some things weren't saved. Hmm....so I saved it. And damnit, I saved the original's picture into this tiny picture that I'm not sure how it clear it would look into a 4X6 print. The only reason why I'm upset is because it's my mom's picture. If it were mine, then who cares. My mom would not be happy with me. Anyone know a way to reverse the compression? :neutral: It's a stretch, but doesn't hurt to ask. :D
Seems like no one really needs it anymore, but since I said I'd do it, I looked up the program I use to resize pictures. It's called Image Resizer Powertoy. All you do is right-click on the picture, choose resize picture, then choose small, medium, large, handheld PC. It will save to a specific dimension. (Sorry, too lazy to look them up now.) Anyone who cares for the program, I can either pm or email it to you. Btw, it's a program for Microsoft.
fyi.... 600 x 800 or thereabouts pixels and 75-90 dpi usually fits the cellar pretty well
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh......I get it. By the way, you like to joke, huh? That's a good thing. ;)
You have to laugh if you don't want to cry. Or you could be like Dana and do both.:sniff::D
Pixels are another measurement of dimension, like inches. This is why bigger monitors (in inches) are designed to run at higher pixels (#### by ####). A bigger screen fits more pixels. Likewise, a higher pixel camera produces, literally, bigger pictures. When viewed at native resolution, digital photos will often be much, much larger (in inches, and pixels) than your standard monitor (you can't hang a 48 inch painting in a 24 inch frame).
I like the resizing tool in IrfanView because it shows you the dimensions in either pixels, centimeters, inches, or as percentages. Also, when you go to "save as" a jpeg, it gives you a quality slider you can use to further reduce the file size without changing the dimensions.
That second window, the "save as" window, has an option that I haven't tried yet, because I never downloaded the plugin, but it looks like it has potential. I'm talking about the "set file size" option where you tell the program how many kb you want the final file to be and it compresses it just enough to fit that file size.
Also, you have different options showing in your resize/resample window. Mine shows standard sizes and I just check the box I want.
What software do you use to resize photos?
Whatever I happen to click on. Usually I use the Windows OS software (whatever it's called).
Okay, so I tried what Shawnee instructed, just to see how easy it is. Yeah, it was easy, and I did a save as. As I closed the program, it said some things weren't saved. Hmm....so I saved it. And damnit, I saved the original's picture into this tiny picture that I'm not sure how it clear it would look into a 4X6 print. The only reason why I'm upset is because it's my mom's picture. If it were mine, then who cares. My mom would not be happy with me. Anyone know a way to reverse the compression? :neutral: It's a stretch, but doesn't hurt to ask. :D
Ugh...sorry.
After you "save as" it will tell you there are features that didn't save, or some such stuff. I just cancel it, I think. I'll resize somethign later and let you know.
I found the concept of resizing digital photos an extremely hard concept to get at first, and I'm still not sure I really get it.
*A bunch of nerdy stuff that is not going to help Cloud*
Cloud, think of it like this: every digital picture has a "real" size. If that real size happens to be huge, a lot of programs are smart enough to zoom out so that it can fit on your screen. So you could be previewing the picture on your computer, and not know the picture is actually giant, because your program has zoomed out to make it fit on your screen. If you want to find out the real size of a file, open it in MS Paint, which will never resize your photos. What you see is what it is. (And if you make it smaller, and save it, that's a permanent change--you can never stretch it bigger again without making the image blurry.)
Cloud, think of it like this: every digital picture has a "real" size. If that real size happens to be huge, a lot of programs are smart enough to zoom out so that it can fit on your screen. So you could be previewing the picture on your computer, and not know the picture is actually giant, because your program has zoomed out to make it fit on your screen. If you want to find out the real size of a file, open it in MS Paint, which will never resize your photos. What you see is what it is. (And if you make it smaller, and save it, that's a permanent change--you can never stretch it bigger again without making the image blurry.)
Oh my God--was that was that the explanation?! I couldn't even make my brain do that!
Oh my God--was that was that the explanation?! I couldn't even make my brain do that!
Clodfobble's brain is much more agile and vigorous than everyone else's brains, not to mention bigger and smarter. Just accept it as one of those things like the sky being blue. You can't do anything about it, and knowing why the sky is blue doesn't change the fact the sky is blue.
You should just bask in its majesty.
Don't forget the sunblock!
Remember suntan lotion? Not sunblock, but stuff that actually is supposed to enhance the damage caused by the sun's radiation? What if I put some of that on some bacon and then basked it in the danger zone near Clodfobble's brain?[COLOR="White"] . . . [/COLOR] I'm thinking Nobel Prize. Cover of Time.
Co-host of the Oscars, at least. Although I would settle for being the guy that yanks people off the Apollo stage.
How can Clodfobble's brain be so big, but she still needs to get glasses from the kid's section?
It's like a black hole. It's so big and massive that it is already beginning to condense. It has its own magnetic and gravitational fields.
She's actually restricted from taking certain books out of her library and Powell's, Amazon, B&N, and Alibris all limit her purchases.
The part in back has squashed and distorted the part in front? Like Sloth from Goonies.
Don't tell anyone I told you this, but......clodfobble's brain outsmarted Chuck Norris
Don't tell anyone I told you this, but......clodfobble's brain outsmarted Chuck Norris
You know we need a clodfobble's brain thread, right?
i thought that was what this thread was
Don't tell anyone I told you this, but......clodfobble's brain outsmarted Chuck Norris
Ya know, the other day, I saw Chuck Norris weeping in an alley, I asked what was up, and all I could make out was something 'bout clod's brain, then he screamed and ran.
She'll think of this thread every time she screws something up. :haha: