How to make reasonable sized Pictures

Bob Eh?_2

This assumes you are a windows user and use Windows 2000 or XP..... The reason for doing this is the web browser can scale .jpg images but bitmaps are beyond it's functionality. Bitmaps are generally .bmp .dib .gif .tif(f) file types.

Select the window you would like to capture and use your mouse to size the window to get the view that you want.

Press <Ctrl><Alt> and PrintScreen (All at once in that order).

Open the paint program found under accessories and click your mouse in the blank picture area then press <Ctrl>V

Now go to file>Save As and save it as a .jpg file with a usefull name.

The screen capture file size is reduced by AT LEAST a factor of ten by doing it this way and your browser will be able to resize it when it loads. Never mind it will upload that much faster.

Hope that helps.....

Weezbo

thanks ... let me see if i can get into paint or something with

a pencil...

Bob Eh?_2

Digital picture sizing....

Now that the price of digital cameras is down to the price of dirt we can all make great pictures and send them by email or post them to sites like this. One problem here is that like anything else there is a horsepower race going on and cameras crank out picture that are 5Mpixels and up in glorious colour. You may have noticed the files are pretty huge ;-) even though they are compressed .jpg files and take an eternity to transmit let alone download. Just for reference purposes doubling the resolution quadruples the file size....

Since many things we take pictures of are transient in nature most of us take our pictures at the highest resolution that the camera does just in case we wish to wallpaper a room with it. Most of us recieving them as Email or in web pages don't likely have that need ;-)

Most cameras come with utilities that can be used to manipulate the picture in many ways including adjusting the resolution down to someting way more transmission friendly but it is often a pretty steep learning curve and complicated to do it.

Once again Windows with MS Office has a "Picture Manager" tool that makes this a quick affair. Just double clik on the image file and it should open in "Picture Manager". select Pictures> Compress> hit the documents button then Ok. Save the file using save as (I usually tack WEB onto the end of the name (BEFORE the .jpg ) to distinguish it from the original. and you will generally end up with a file of about 155Kb or so.....

If you use some other software 1024x768 resolution is usually a decent choice.....

Hope this helps.....