Reducing the size of photos!!

[Scubamad]

Hi hopefully someone can help me before I go mad!!

We are trying to reduce the size of photos, they are .jpg photos and are too big to email. Does anyone know a quick way to reduce and if we should keep them as .jpg or change to .gif or something esle.

Sorry not very technically minded!

Any help would be gratefully appreciated!

Thanks

[John Gulliver]

There are several programmes that do this but most of them seem to be mainly based on trial and error. I use Photoshop Limited Edition 5. I use the "Image size" function to reduce the width to say, 1000 pixels, or even as low as 500, depending on where I want to post the image, and then save it as "Low" quality. After that, it's just a matter of checking the result and if the image is still too big going back and reducing the inage size even more. It's a bit of a chore but I don't think there's a blanket way of reducing the size of several images at once.

[Jules]

some programme have asave for the web function but otherwise, what John said.

[Justin Owen]

if you're running XP there's a resizing utility you can download from ms... hold on a minute....

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

[robindotadams]

I use the resizing thingy from MS referred to above. Does the job perfectly

You can also do it with "Paint" using the Stretch & Skew function. Just set vertical & horizontal to the same value

[Scubamad]

Thanks for all the help everyone, unfortunately we are running on ME, will give the other recommendations a go!!

Happy Diving!!