Re-sizing picture

I took a picture with my 5 MP camera and sent it by e-mail to a friend who
has dial up. It took her so long to down load it she finally gave up. Is
there any way to re-size it to make e-mailing easier. Do I have to buy
special software. I'm using Windows XP and I have Nikon software that came
with my camera

Thanks,


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Jim,

Windows XP automatically resizes an image if you right click and click
Send toMail recipient if you haven't told it to never ask you again it
will ask if you want to resize. That will help. But you will loose a
lot of quality.

Another option would be Zipping the picture or compressing it using
some compression software but that will require software.

You could also push your friend a bit to join the big boys on
broadband.

Jim L wrote in message ...
Is there any way to re-size it to make e-mailing easier.

Here's a link to various simple free downloads called jpeg sizer (whatever)
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=jpeg+sizer&meta

Any of those will do what you want to do quite simply.

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Regards ..... Trevor George, Bristol, UK.
Bike - http://www.F650.co.uk
Home - http://www.PoolesWharf.com
Work - http://www.OnMyWindow.co.uk

I don't know what software came with your camera - but PaintShopPro
(www.jasc.com) can be downloaded as a free trial.

I would recommend cropping, resizing, and then saving as a medium
quality JPEG file before you send it through email.

Or better still sign up with one of the online photogallery services,
upload your picture there, (still reducing it's size) and then send
your friend a link, rather than an E-mail attachment.

Much quicker.

K

Thank You all for your help


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I don't know what software came with your camera - but PaintShopPro
(www.jasc.com) can be downloaded as a free trial.

I would recommend cropping, resizing, and then saving as a medium
quality JPEG file before you send it through email.

Or better still sign up with one of the online photogallery services,
upload your picture there, (still reducing it's size) and then send
your friend a link, rather than an E-mail attachment.

Much quicker.

K

"Trevor George" wrote in message
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Jim L wrote in message ...
Is there any way to re-size it to make e-mailing easier.

Here's a link to various simple free downloads called jpeg sizer
(whatever)
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=jpeg+sizer&meta

Any of those will do what you want to do quite simply.

--
Regards ..... Trevor George, Bristol, UK.
Bike - http://www.F650.co.uk
Home - http://www.PoolesWharf.com
Work - http://www.OnMyWindow.co.uk



Not sure about the above shareware software, but what I do is resize an
image in my software to pixel dimensions, somewhere around 400 pixels width
typically. That is the real solution. Unfortunately, my software is not
shareware.

PSsquare

Use Picassa from Google. The software has an email option that makes
the file really small, but still viewable.

Go to the Microsoft Download website and search for Power Toys (for XP).
Download the Image Resizer Power Toy. After installing, when you
right click an image file you will see a resize picture option. You get
a choice of 4 sizes--the smallest is good for email. The resized image
is saved as a copy so you still have the original.

Ken

Jim L wrote:
I took a picture with my 5 MP camera and sent it by e-mail to a friend who
has dial up. It took her so long to down load it she finally gave up. Is
there any way to re-size it to make e-mailing easier. Do I have to buy
special software. I'm using Windows XP and I have Nikon software that came
with my camera

Thanks,

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:40:55 GMT, Jim L wrote:

I took a picture with my 5 MP camera and sent it by e-mail to a friend who
has dial up. It took her so long to down load it she finally gave up. Is
there any way to re-size it to make e-mailing easier.

If this is going to be a regular thing for you, JpegSizer is designed to
make preparing email versions of hi-res images as painless as possible.

Free trial download at

http://jpegsizer.tangotools.com

HTH

Pete

writes:

Windows XP automatically resizes an image if you right click and click
Send toMail recipient if you haven't told it to never ask you again it
will ask if you want to resize. That will help. But you will loose a
lot of quality.

For email purposes, that should be fine. Reduce the size to something like
900x600 which will allow a decent amount of detail, can be printed as a 4x6
picture at 150 dpi, and is viewable on most monitors (though older 800x600
monitors will have to scroll a bit).

Another option would be Zipping the picture or compressing it using
some compression software but that will require software.

This typically doesn't buy you much space savings, since jpg files are
typically compressed any way. My Olympus RAW files on the other hand do save a
bit of space.

You could also push your friend a bit to join the big boys on
broadband.

Or burn a CD, and mail the CD in an appropriate holder of the pictures.

--
Michael Meissner
email:
http://www.the-meissners.org