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Thursday Open Thread | 63 comments (63 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

don't image editors cost money ? and don't they require several hours trying to work out how to translate the "instructions" from hardcore techie know-all-ese into "english for normal people" ?

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 12:01:50 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (none / 1)

IrfanView is freeware for Windows. Open a pic in it and press Ctrl-R, which will allow you to specify width 600. Then hit S to save. On the quality scale you're offered, choose about 80-85.

No more complicated than that.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 12:05:18 PM EST
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Ah, okay. I'll give it a go later. I'm still catching up.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 12:09:10 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

Sorry, had visitors, so didn't reply earlier.

one thing to do, if you are making a copy for the web, copy them into a separate folder before you shrink it for web use, so you still have the original left at full quality

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 02:05:21 PM EST
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You can even use MS paint for resizing. The JPG compression ratio is fixed, but it's about right for web presentation.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 01:07:39 PM EST
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Explain more. I like stuff I don't have to download.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 01:17:30 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

Photobucket has it's own editing feature now - you can resize easily and no downloads needed. Do you have a photobucket account yet?

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 01:21:29 PM EST
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Re: Thursday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

Yes, that is one thing I managed. All I have to do is find the welcome email so's I can find out where it is.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 02:20:19 PM EST
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Assuming you are starting with JPGs from your camera (as in you don't have an SLR outputting RAW format), open the JPG with MS paint, click on the "image" tab, and select "stretch/skew". In the stretch fields, type in a % less than 100 for both the horizontal and vertical fields to shrink it.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 01:23:19 PM EST
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