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Tue Aug 05, 2003 9:40 am

Here are some steps to resize your image.

If you are using windows xp, download this program and install it.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

Then, right click on the saved picture and hit resize pictures. Then click advanced, then custom, and make it 640 x 480 for classified photos, 100x100 for avatars.

If you dont have windows xp, go to download.com and search for an "image resizer".

Make sure it is in .jpg format.

Hope that helps!

Tue Aug 05, 2003 9:52 am

In Photoshop, use Save for Web, Medium quality on the menus

Wed Oct 22, 2003 1:47 am

IrfanView - Freeware Graphic Viewer and more

http://www.irfanview.com

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Sat Oct 02, 2004 10:38 am

This works great too - Bome's Image Resizer V1.11 Free download
http://www.bome.com/tools/resizer/
It's postcardware - the author evidently collects postcards so all he wants as payment is a postcard from where ever you are. :wink:
And the program works great!

Fri Dec 10, 2004 4:52 pm

If you have Paint Shop Pro (or a trial version of it):
1. Open image
2. Select Image -> Resize on the menus
3. Change size to 640x480 (or whatever)
4. Make sure you save in JPG format.

If you don't have a commercial product, you can use the free "Paint" program that comes with windows.

Steps for Paint:
1. Open image
2. If you don't know the size of your image already, select Image -> Attributes from the menu. Note the size, it will probably be something like 1280 by 960
3. Select Image -> Stretch/Skew from the menus.
4. Change the percentages. If the image is 1280x960, use 50% to shrink it down to 640x480 pixels in size.
5. Save your image.
6. Upload to site.

Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:24 pm

Does anyone know how to get the file size down below 8k in iPhoto? Even at 15x15 it is still 8k.

Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:23 am

I don't know the answer for iPhoto but it has to do with the JPG "compression ratio" if a 15x15 image is still 8k. Look for where to change that setting

Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:58 am

Here are some instructions for using the XP Program "ImageResizer," mentioned in this first post in this thread:

1. Locate the picture(s) on your computer. In the image below, I am resizing a single photo and it located on my desktop:

2. Right click on the image (as seen above) and select Resize Pictures
3. A box will pop up:

4. Using the box above, select the Small option for Classifieds photos and press Ok
5. After hitting Ok, you will now have 2 files:

6. Use the (Small) file as the photo for your ad.

Tip:
If you have more than one photo, you can select all of them and right click on one to resize all of them at once:

Sun Oct 23, 2005 7:08 pm

EverettB wrote: If you have Paint Shop Pro (or a trial version of it):
1. Open image
2. Select Image -> Resize on the menus
3. Change size to 640x480 (or whatever)
4. Make sure you save in JPG format.

If you don't have a commercial product, you can use the free "Paint" program that comes with windows.

Steps for Paint:
1. Open image
2. If you don't know the size of your image already, select Image -> Attributes from the menu. Note the size, it will probably be something like 1280 by 960
3. Select Image -> Stretch/Skew from the menus.
4. Change the percentages. If the image is 1280x960, use 50% to shrink it down to 640x480 pixels in size.
5. Save your image.
6. Upload to site.

Im trying this with the "Paint" program in XP. Im starting with a 119k image. No matter how much I Stretch/Skew it, even down to 5%, its still 7.xx KB.

I tried downloading the ImageResizer, and since this is a work computer it wont take the download.

Any other suggestions?

Tue Nov 08, 2005 10:42 am

O.K. I need help also. I did the right click, resize pic, advanced, custom and then 100x100 for the avatar and I'm still over 6 kb also. Help!!! :cry:

Tue Nov 08, 2005 11:08 am

I use Adobe Photoshop and use the Save for Web option (as stated before this comes out medium quality, but it still shows up perfectly fine for avatar use). If anyone would like me to resize avatars for them, I would be happy to help.

If you are more of a do-it-yourself type person, I would suggest downloading the program Irfranview (this was also previously posted in this thread). It's a very easy to use program. If you need help using it, I would be more than happy to help you with that as well.

EDIT: I no longer have a program to resize pictures. I would like to help, but it's not possible anymore.

Tue Nov 08, 2005 7:49 pm

Thank You Jessica, I really appreciate your help. :lol: :wink: :lol:

I'm still messing around with it to try and figure out what I'm doing wrong. :oops:

Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:13 am

You are probably doing everything right but the program is not able to change the JPG "compression" setting so your photo can't become small enough.

Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:48 pm

Can I post a link (url or otherwise) to a pic on Photobucket.com instead of uploading the pic when I place an ad?

Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:19 pm

Not for the Classifieds, external photos are not allowed.

Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:40 pm

I was able to download the 640X whatever size from my camera to my pc with the software it came with.

Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:05 am

Jessica wrote: I use Adobe Photoshop and use the Save for Web option (as stated before this comes out medium quality, but it still shows up perfectly fine for avatar use). If anyone would like me to resize avatars for them, I would be happy to help.

maybe a little more advanced tutorial on how to do it with photoshop using "Save for Web". for this, i used photoshop 7. i have no idea what's current, i can only assume the layout hasnt changed much

1. open the desired image with photoshop

2. crop it to size, or leave the proportions as is

3. from the "File" menu, select "Save for Web..."

4. in the new window that appears, select the "Image Size" tab. from there, set the larger of the two numbers to 100, since this is the max size for avatars on thesamba.

5. click on the arrow inside the white circle. this brings down another menu. there, select "Optimize to File Size..."

6. set the desired file size to 6KB, since this is the max file size for avatars on thesamba

7. once the file is the correct size, click on save and then upload that image to your profile in the Control Panel as an avatar

Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:14 pm

Resizing on a Mac using iPhoto:
Coad wrote: Under your FILE menu in iPhoto you have the EXPORT option. Select it and you will see that you have the option to resize an image.

Fri May 26, 2006 11:42 am

is there a way to use microsoft paint to resize without loosing image quality. my pictures get ridiculously pixelly when i shrink them

-since i am using a work computer, i cannot download programs. that is why i am asking a ms paint question.

Fri May 26, 2006 11:57 am

i've had better luck with microsoft photo editor (comes with the MS Office pack?) than with paint.