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Do you have a image program on your computer like Paint Shop or Photo Shop? If you do you'll have open your image with one of them and resize it through there. There should a option button to resize pictures.
You can also use the basic Paint Brush program that comes with Windows if you don't have any other image programs. Open your picture up in Paint Brush and click on "Image" at the top and then click on "Stretch/Skew". Enter the amount you want to size your image ie. 50% in both the Horizontal and Vertical. This is a basic program and it will take some experimenting to get the image small enough to be accepted by the Avatar program on this site.
Make sure you save the reduced image with a different name so you don't loose the original.
You can also use the basic Paint Brush program that comes with Windows if you don't have any other image programs. Open your picture up in Paint Brush and click on "Image" at the top and then click on "Stretch/Skew". Enter the amount you want to size your image ie. 50% in both the Horizontal and Vertical. This is a basic program and it will take some experimenting to get the image small enough to be accepted by the Avatar program on this site.
Make sure you save the reduced image with a different name so you don't loose the original.
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Brian is right - Irfanview is a great free program that does a lot of stuff. You can "re-size" the image to any size you want and then "save-as" a new file.
My only complaint is it will always save to the previous folder it saved to. In other words, if you open a file from a certain folder, don't assume it will save the new image to that same folder. It won't, unless that was the last folder you saved to. I often forget to specify the save location. It saves the image to some other folder and I have too look for it. You do it a few times and you remember.
My only complaint is it will always save to the previous folder it saved to. In other words, if you open a file from a certain folder, don't assume it will save the new image to that same folder. It won't, unless that was the last folder you saved to. I often forget to specify the save location. It saves the image to some other folder and I have too look for it. You do it a few times and you remember.
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I am a lot better with a computer (use them every day when I am at work) than I am with wrenches...that is the problem. 
I agree that irfanview is a pain sometimes, but it works and it is free. I have paint shop pro (was the class I took) and photoshop. I can't use photoshop well at all.
I agree that irfanview is a pain sometimes, but it works and it is free. I have paint shop pro (was the class I took) and photoshop. I can't use photoshop well at all.
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Howdy,
There's a great program that is totally FREE (Like Free beer!) It's also available for all the operating systems out there in Computer land!
(you mean there more than 1 system Virginia??)
Yes there are people out there that don't use Microshaft Winblows!!
Some use the MAC.....(not the truck)
And there are some idiots (like me!) that use Linux!
But I digress!!!
Anyway go here: http://www.gimp.org/ and download the version that most suits your operating system. It's a LOT like Adobe Photoshop (without the part that sucks money out of your wallet!!..............or sends you un-ending junk mail trying to get you to upgrade to the pay-as-you-go version)
Cheers,
Rick
There's a great program that is totally FREE (Like Free beer!) It's also available for all the operating systems out there in Computer land!
(you mean there more than 1 system Virginia??)
Yes there are people out there that don't use Microshaft Winblows!!
Some use the MAC.....(not the truck)
And there are some idiots (like me!) that use Linux!
But I digress!!!
Anyway go here: http://www.gimp.org/ and download the version that most suits your operating system. It's a LOT like Adobe Photoshop (without the part that sucks money out of your wallet!!..............or sends you un-ending junk mail trying to get you to upgrade to the pay-as-you-go version)
Cheers,
Rick
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From: Walnut Creek, CA
Ok I need some help too. I have Photoshop Elements and when I resize the picture it is so small I can barely see it and the computer still says it's too big. I got it down to what I think is a small enough file size but it either doesn't like the number of pixels or something I'm doing. Any suggestions?
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From: Riverside, So Cal
Originally Posted by seawulff
Ok I need some help too. I have Photoshop Elements and when I resize the picture it is so small I can barely see it and the computer still says it's too big. I got it down to what I think is a small enough file size but it either doesn't like the number of pixels or something I'm doing. Any suggestions?
