posting pictures on this forum

[psycho_fling]

ok so i have tried to upload some pics to different threads but it keeps saying they are too big ie to many pixels big

how do i shrink the photos? i have tried cropping and pasting into paint but then the paint white background sheet is to big

i know this is simple but its doing my heead in

thanks in advance alex

[teamhunt]

Re: posting pictures on this forum

EASY!

Use Paint.NET
Its free to download for a start, so google it then download it.
When downloaded, open up the picture you want to shrink on it, and go to Image > Resize, then just enter the dimensions you want the picture to be.
Hope this helps.

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: posting pictures on this forum

You can do pretty much the same thing in Microsoft Paint.

Right-click on your image file and select 'Open With...' then choose Paint
Click on the Image tab in the toolbar and choose 'Stretch/Skew'
The horizontal and vertical boxes will be at 100%; all you need to do is change these to whatever value suits (50% to decrease the pixel size to half, for example) and then save your image. I would normally do 'Save As' though and save it with a different file name, so that you don't permanently change the properties of the picture. That way you've still got the original large file (good for high-quality reminiscing, setting as a desktop image etc) and a reduced-size file that you can post on forums and stuff.

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: posting pictures on this forum

Just a quick note too: if you use Paint for this, better to use the 'Open With...' command than to copy and paste into Paint. Reason being, if you copy and paste into a new Paint document, when you go to save it, Paint wants to save it as a .bmp file and that makes the file quite large in size, and if you change the file extension to .jpg, the saved image is kinda grainy.

Opening a .jpg image with Paint means that the file type is already set to .jpg and when you go to save it, the saved image is a low file size but there's no deterioration in quality.