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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2005 Mar. ~ 2005 May: All Things Technical: The Help Desk (ARCHIVES): Resizing Photos: Archive through December 19, 2004 users admin

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Vixeninvegas
Member

10-07-2002

Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 12:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi all - happy Sunday Morning

I am hoping someone here can help me - I have a photo on my puter that I can't seem to resize - I have tried & tried. I would like to resize it to a normal size then take it to wallgreens & print one out but dang it I'm stuck. Anyone able to either walk me thru it or maybe willing to help a computer lamo by resizing it for me??? LOL Thanks!

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 12:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Vixeninvegas: If you would like to e-mail the image to me I will be happy to attempt resizing it for you. Just tell me the dimensions you would like and I will adjust and return it to you as quickly as I can. My e-mail is draheidfromtvch at yahoo dot com. (Lose the spaces and use the actual characters.) :-)

Vixeninvegas
Member

10-07-2002

Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 12:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
you are a total sweetheart!!! Ty soo much :-)

Vixeninvegas
Member

10-07-2002

Sunday, February 22, 2004 - 1:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow you are faster than a speeding bullet Draheid - its so nice to be surrounded by smart people :-) LOL

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 8:49 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ARGH. I am trying to resize a Starting Under cartoon for Potshot. It's not that large, but as I try to get it to the correct size, it's as small as a postage stamp and can't be read. Anyone have any ideas?

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 8:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lk, You can ship it my way and I'll see what I can do, if you like. It's tvchjmm at yahoo.com


Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 9:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's on its way. Thanks!

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Saturday, August 07, 2004 - 9:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sorry, I got caught up in BB threads.LOL Back to you, Lk.

Cassie
Member

07-15-2000

Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 2:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Draheid or JMM: Can you advise? I have several photos scanned into my computer which are too big to post on the board (cat folder) but when I use Kodak Photoshop, there is no way to resize them except if I want to print them (which I don't). I no longer have the scanner to redo them. Is there any way I can resize them using some other medium/download? And what would be an ideal size to save photos in? They looked small enough when I edited them after scanning. Thanks for your help in advance.

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 2:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cassie, I would suggest http://www.myimager.com, it's free and pretty user friendly. They need to be under 60 KB for the file size and dimensions, I use 250 - 300 for the pictures in my updates. Dra says the board maximum is 600, but personally I think that is usually too big for what we need.

Cassie
Member

07-15-2000

Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 3:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Jmm. I'll try it now.

Umm, if they need to be under 60KB, I don't get why you use 250-300 on here. Do you mean they need to be under 60KB for myimager?



Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 3:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sorry, that was confusing. What I was trying to say was that 60KB is the file size for the board. The dimensions I use are 250-300 pixels wide/tall for the update pics. See update here to see the actual size this displays. You can make them up to 600 pixels wide but that is a pretty large picture.

Cassie
Member

07-15-2000

Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 3:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Well Jackie, the pic I wanted to resize is even too big for myimager, LOL, so I give up. I saved it at 140KB or something. It just didn't look that big (and still doesn't!)

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 4:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cassie: According to Myimager, their file size limit is 200KB - I don't know what trouble you had uploading it to work on it. Was the file bigger before you saved it at 140KB?

ETA: There are many factors to the size of an image file - the dimensions, the color depth, the actual resolution, any compression applied during creation or saving the file, etc. Often when we save an image from PaintShop Pro, the file size is too big for the board because we forgot to increas the compression ratio. A quick load/save in another program with better compression will often reduce the files size to as little as 10% of the original.

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 4:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cassie, Why don't you just email it to me and let me see what I can do. tvchjmm at yahoo.com

Cassie
Member

07-15-2000

Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 4:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dra and Jmm: Just now reading these and have emailed pic to you. Thanks a bunch guys :-)

ETA: I just rechecked the size Dra and it was 142. Guess it must have been bigger at one time. The whole thing's too confusing for my head, LOL.

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 4:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cassie, Check your email.

Cassie
Member

07-15-2000

Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 4:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
You too, JMM

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 5:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, Ok I'm a ditz. Back to you with CRS fixed.

Cassie
Member

07-15-2000

Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 5:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, Thanks, Jackie. They're great!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Sunday, August 08, 2004 - 8:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ummmmmmmm, if anybody is afraid of overtaxing the goodwill of Jmm and Draheid, I can also re-size pictures. Juju2bigdog at Yahoo.com.

I was the tvcher who resized Colossus Naked in Sheer Curtain, NOT also known as Colossus Rising. I have credentials.



Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Monday, August 09, 2004 - 10:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, Juju

BTW if anyone has their Microsoft Office CD, there is a program on it called Photo Editor that does a great job of resizing. It's not automatically installed if you just picked the normal installation of office, so ...

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Monday, August 09, 2004 - 1:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Irfanview has many features including resizing, batch resizing, etc. and it's FREE!

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Monday, August 09, 2004 - 11:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
For you beginners, main thing I find helpful in resizing is looking at the number of pixels. I think Draheid has splained this before. You will see probably two numbers, that will be in the hundreds or thousands. These are your main numbers. I usually mainly look at the width number and make it under 600. 400 is a good size. There is probably going to be a little check box that says something like constrain proportions, or something like that. That means when you change the width, the height will also change to keep the picture in the same proportions.

So, if you can find those numbers, change the width to around 400-450, and then save your picture and then go find it and hover your mouse over it, and the Kilobyte size of it should pop up. You want it to be under 60 Kb to post here.

Uhhhhhhhh, if hovering the mouse doesn't work, right click on the picture and choose Properties, and it should show the size on there.

Froggiegirl621
Member

02-14-2003

Sunday, December 19, 2004 - 4:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Help! MyImager is down, not sure what is going on there?, and I need some pics resized so I can post them here. Can anyone help me out?