How do you make an image smaller?

[rondds]

Got a new computer and on the old one, i had downloaded a patch from MS (at the recommendation of people on these boards) that allows you to make an image smaller - it gives 4 choices. anyone know where to find that?

 

[VTSeaRay]

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

 

[370Dancer]

There is an included program in MS Office called Microsoft Office Picture Manager, located in the office tools section of the start menu for Office. It works very well, and will do a lot besides resizing.

 

[rondds]

Thanks VT. Powertoys. Couldnt remember what to search on. Prob is this only works for XP. I'm running VISTA.

Did some googling on powertoys and image resizer and came up with this...
http://www.vso-software.fr/products/image_resizer/download-image-resizer.php

It works just like the XP image resizer (ie: rt click on the image, then click on resizer), but with more options. Disadvantage: an annoying box opens up each time you rt click reminding you that if you are using this for commercial use, you will need a license key. :smt013

Hey, what do you expect for free?

 

[Dave S]

Ron

There is a simple on-line program you can use as well for occasional re-sizing. Here is the link http://online-image-resize.kategorie.cz/

Dave

 

[Nehalennia]

Also if you use Photobucket already you can resize them there. Nothing to download.

 

[fc3]

Vista? Really? No, I'm not laughing. I'm not!

 

[VTSeaRay]

Thanks VT. Powertoys. Couldnt remember what to search on. Prob is this only works for XP. I'm running VISTA.

Did some googling on powertoys and image resizer and came up with this...
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

It works just like the XP image resizer (ie: rt click on the image, then click on resizer), but with more options. Disadvantage: an annoying box opens up each time you rt click reminding you that if you are using this for commercial use, you will need a license key. :smt013

Hey, what do you expect for free?

You tried it, and it didn't work on Vista????? wow... that's the first xp image I've heard of that wouldn't work on Vista (It's just xp with lipstick .... well, really, it's windows 3.1 with lots of lipstick...)

I don't run Vista... but, some of my sons laptops run it, and some of my customer's pc's use it. so I don't have a lot of experience with different kits on it.

-VtSeaRay

 

[fc3]

... that's the first xp image I've heard of that wouldn't work on Vista (It's just xp with lipstick .... well, really, it's windows 3.1 with lots of lipstick...)

No.

The lineage is NT 3.5 => NT 3.51 => NT 4.0 => Windows 2000 (NT 5.0) => Windows XP (NT 5.1) => Vista NT 6.0

I never worked with a version of NT before 3.5. Don't remember what the first one was. NT started with version 3 as a marketing ploy to make it appear that NT 3 superseded OS/2 version 2. Ran OS/2 (2.0, 2.1, 3.0) for a while, too.

David Cutler architected and lead the development of Windows NT. I worked for a company that had a source code license for Microsoft operating systems and I have been into the source for NT. The company also had it's own people on Cutler's staff at Microsoft. I'm pretty sure Cutler isn't architecting Windoze any longer. He does better work than this design-by-committee horror that Microsoft is pushing.

Best regards,
Frank

 

[Jim240]

Photoshop. Steep learning curve, expensive, but it does most everything.

If you just want to manage a library and do things like rename, resize a whole lot of images at once, Nikon NX (freeware from the Nikon site) does a nice job.

Both applications are available for Mac and PC...

 

[rondds]

thanks everyone!

so far, i'm very happy with vista. this machine has SP1 which is supposed to have corrected many issues. i have 5 other pcs in the house on the network and two more at the office, all running XP SP2. i love XP and have found it to be the simplest and by far the most stable platform. I had no desire to change. but this machine came across my inbox as a super deal so i bit.

as for image resizing, i'm looking for brainless here. right click on the thumbnail in windows explorer is all i want. i have other software that manipulates, morphs, sepias, etc. i want simplicity in case i want to throw a pic into an email and size doesnt matter.


Hey frank you wanna REALLY laugh? i have a third machine at my office running MILENNIUM EDITION!!! and i almost 5 years i have not had a single issue. Be nice...:smt018

 

[fc3]

Hey frank you wanna REALLY laugh? i have a third machine at my office running MILENNIUM EDITION!!! and i almost 5 years i have not had a single issue. Be nice...:smt018

That's scary. ME is basically DOS with a GUI wrapper. No memory protection, preemptive multitasking, etc.

Best regards,
Frank

 

[rondds]

I know, it's a toy. It's in an operatory purely for watching dvds with headphones. Nothing important on that machine and it's not on the internet.

 

[Henry Boyd]

Would this be a bad time to mention that iPhoto on OS-X has that feature built in? :smt043:smt043:smt043

 

[rondds]

SHOOT! I just realized I put the wrong link in post # 4 above. I went back and corrected it. Sorry!

 

[Larry&Leisa]

another great little simple program is Picture Tray.. ( and it works on Vista too )

 

[gerryb]

http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm