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Photos too large

Feb 3, 2005 9:27PM PST

I have received several emails lately that included photos. They are so large I can't see the full picture. Is there some way I can reduce these? I have windows xp, OE 6.0 and use Outlook Express

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Re: Photos too large
Feb 3, 2005 9:50PM PST

stampinladybug, You may want to go to the link below and download the Image Resizer from Microsoft. You would then save the photo from the e-mail to your hard drive than right click it and choose Resize Pictures and choose the smallest size and it will resize the picture. You can then delete the original picture.

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

Tufenuf

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Mine automatically resizes the pictures to screen size.
Feb 3, 2005 9:52PM PST

There must be a setting in 'options' or you need to upgrade the software. I have morons that send dial-ups a five megapixel picture to look at when a 40K picture would do.

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Reply to resize pictures
Feb 4, 2005 1:34AM PST

Those 'morons' have the same problem most of us do. I receive and send pictures that sometimes fit the screen and at other times they do not. If you have something that automatically formats the picture to fit the screen, please share it.

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RE: Photos too large
Feb 3, 2005 9:56PM PST

Probably the easist solution to your problem would be to save the photos to your hard disk and open them back up in Internet Explorer. This should allow you to resize to screen size for viewing. If this is not satisfactory, you might want to download a Picture Viewer. There are some freebies out there that will allow you to zoom in and zoom out. Good luck.

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The answer to your problem and more!
Feb 4, 2005 1:15AM PST

Make sure the pictures are JPEG picture files.
This means the pictures name has an extention on the filename that ends with .jpg , these pictures are generally much smaller in size (as far as disk space) than pictures that have a file extention .bmp, .gif, .tif , and these files are commonly used also.
I will list the picture formats and reasons why they are or may be different.

.jpg - JPEG files give you the best picture quality with the least amount of disk space, and this is the most commonly used picture format. jpg files give you the best quality, especially for the disk space. You can tell a lot about a picture by the size of the picture file, and it depends on which one you are using.

.bmp - is a Windows Bitmap file, although the quality of the picture can be very good, the better the quality, and the bigger the picture, this probably
takes up the most hard drive space. If you use Windows Paint program, it saves files in the .bmp format. This is the file type that Windows uses for your background, but you can use a .jpg file.

.tif - stands for tag image file format. this one is rarely used.

.gif - stands for Graphic interchange format. GIF pictures can be rather large, but you can make GIF files animated, (but usually smaller than .bmp files.

If you would like to have a photo program but do not want to spend any money, download Adobe Acrobat 6 (you will probably need it anyway) and you can download
Adobe's Photo Shop Album at the same time. Its a good photo program that lets you do all sorts of
things with pictures. I also like MS Photo Editor, like the one that came with office 97 or office 2000. Most people don't like it, it is very limited, I've
always used it to shrink or blow up pictures without distorting it. If you have
any problems email me and I will be glad to help.
Try this, open a .jpg picture file using a photo program, then click File -> save as, give it the same file name it has, but in the files of type box, change it to bmp or gif depending on what photo program you use. Then compare the two sizes. You can open Pictures in MS Word, You can use Internet Explorer, but I don't think it will let you do anything to the picture or save it as a different file type.
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Troy