I have 2 photos that require their file size to be reduced so I can upload them onto the forum.
How do you go about doing it?

Look forward to your replies.

Messy

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tt

Easy way is paint/ stretch- skew command

Thanks tt but it's not taking the file down to the max size for on the forum....
Probably me

reduce it then put it back thru

tt

Just do a resize in windows open the photo in windows live photo gallery and select edit this will take you to another window select edit and resize then select custom and in the default size it will 1024 just replace this with 768 and save where ever you want.

What image-editing software do you have at your disposal?

Col

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I have Windows 7 on the PC and have the option of opening photos with Paint, Photoshop Element Editor, Windows Live Movie Maker, Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Media Centre and Windows Photo Viewer. I could not find where you could decrease the size of the file. I searched the net for Software and downloaded PhotoScape and by chance by closing the file found something that would resize the file. As you can tell I'm not up to speed with the photography and editing files.

OK, not familiar with any of the Windows etc progs, and last used Photoshop Elements many moons ago, but what I use is closer to Elements in the same way that a chimpanzee is closer to a gorilla than it is to a daffodil.

So, suggest you go into Elements and work out the slight differences in the way to do it from what I describe below.

Here's what I do to produce an image that is good for dimensions (No. of pixels wide by No. of pixels tall) and good for file size (about 100-200 KB) for posting on the forum.

This is for any image, as I don't use either Photobucket or Flickr. You could do your images this way and then use the forum gallery application to upload direct from where they are on your computer. I happen to use my little piece of cyberspace. You can get your own little piece of cyberspace free from 'Windows Live' (Thanks to weight_forward for pointing that one out).

OK, this is what I do to my files, which start out with dimension of 5184 pixels wide by 3456 pixels tall, and a RAW file size of 20 to 25 megabytes (i.e., massively too big in every way for a 20 inch monitor to display at a resolution of 96 ppi or whatever it is). So...

This is for a landscape-orientated image...

Open image...

Go to the top toolbar...

<Image>
<Image size>
(Make sure 'Constrain proportions' is ticked, and suggest use Resample image using the Bicubic option))
Change Pixel Dimensions to 758 pixels wide
(the tall will take care of itself)
Click OK

Back to the top toolbar...

<File>
<Save for web and devices>
This will give you a dialog box with various options, the most important of which is the Quality level. The higher you make it, the less it will compress the file at the expense of the file size being larger. It's a compromise. At 758 pixels wide, a quality level of 60 will squeeze many images under the 100 KB files size, but it depends on the complexity of the image, so you need to make some fine tuning at this stage if the forum gallery system needs it under 100 KB to load it. If you bring quality down to 30 or 40, you will get a nice small file size of 20 or 30 KB, but the image quality will suffer and you will start to see JPEG artefacts like you see on a big screen TV that isn't showing an HD picture

If you use your own hosting, like Windows Live, it will not matter what the exact file sizes are - the forum software will adjust the zoom. If you look at any I have posted recently, I generally do them at 1000 pixels wide and about 200 KB and put a note in that you need to click on the image to show it at full size.

When you are making your post, you have 2 options...

If you have saved your images on your PC and then made a gallery, you need the wee box on the right that says My Photos [Insert photo from your gallery]

If you have used your own cyberspace like Windows Live, you need to use the wee envelope at the top with the mountains on it (Post photo - Geddit ). That brings up a box for you to type in the url of your photo.

Folks who use Photobucket or Flickr hosting can tell you what to do for that option.

Hope that helps,

Col

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For simplicity's sake ... your Windows set up probably includes Windows Picture Manager.

Just right click on the image you want to compress and Open With ... Windows Picture Manager.

Then, in the top menu bar select Edit Pictures and in the drop down menu that appears on the right of your screen ... Compress Pictures



It gives you a choice of what to compress for documents, web, email ... make your choice and there you go.

Here's the end result ...

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