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Originally posted by sjiatrou
The easiest way I found to get pix the right size is to use Powerpoint. Insert the picture into a blank slide and then save as a jpeg (using the pulldown option when you save the file). You may have to play with the size of the picture in the slide to get the right file size.
1. Open Powerpoint, create new presentation
2. Insert picture from file (select your picture)
3. Size the picture (or pictures) to fit
4. Save (or save as)
a. give it a name
b. save as type: JPEG File Interchange Format
5. Ta da!
Steve
This will work, but is not ideal. In the
Forum FAQ (see button top right of your page) or Frequently Asked Questions, is a very detailed section on
Uploading and inserting pictures which points to free-of-charge software you can use, which is very efficient. You can do it with any photo-processing software but Powerpoint or Paint would be my last choices.
The main advantage of the free
XnView software is that it allows you to select and crop a part of the photograph, whilst maintaining the correct aspect ratio of the photo, and then to reduce the picture size. Another tool that I recommend very, very highly is the free
Picasa application from Google. With that you can also edit and change file sizes very, very easily.
Peter
1970 280SL. Also known as 'admin@sl113.org' and organiser of the
Technical Manual.
