Quite an impressive list of different image formats. That’s generally not considered a good idea because you never know when you want to access the large original image again, so instead let’s go through the steps needed to save the shrunk Godzilla with a different filename.Ĭlick on “File” (it’s blue, on the top left) and choose “Save As…”. If you don’t care about the original, larger image, you can simply press Cmd-S or click on the tiny floppy disk icon on the top left and save the new, smaller version of the image and you’re done. The image itself probably looks exactly the same, actually. The result is shown on the very bottom of the window: To do that, I click in the horizontal percentage box and replace 100 with 75, then click “OK” at the bottom. I’m going to resize by simply reducing it to 75% of the current size. Logically, it starts at 100% for horizontal and vertical. Notice that by default it shows dimensions by percentage. See the “Resize” option? That’s the one we want! To do that, switch your attention to the top left of the window: That’s a bit bigger than I’d like for an email message, so let’s reduce it down. There are two areas I want you to pay attention to here, starting at the very bottom edge.Īs you can see from this close-up, the current image I’m working with is 1025 x 768 (always width x height). The image is opened up in Paint, showing me quite a few options: It’s the first of these three that I want to choose, so I do so and click. You can see that my choices are “Paint”, “Photos” or “Windows Photo Viewer”. Here’s my example, using a photo still from an early Godzilla movie: Look for “Open With” and it’ll show you all the programs you have installed that have said they can deal with the JPG (or PNG) image you’re working with. To start, right-click on the image file that’s on your Desktop and you’ll see a menu full of choices. To resize any image or picture file, the tried and true “Windows Paint” application works just dandy. Kinda daft, really, but if you want to adjust the color, contrast, or apply some fancy adjustments to your photos before you resize them, “Photos” is the app of choice. There’s an easy solution for resizing images in Windows, whether you’re running Windows 7 or the more modern Windows 8, but there’s a trick to it because by default images are opened up in the “Photos” app and that has some editing capabilities but doesn’t seem to know how to resize images. Me? I seem to have friends who don’t pay attention to this sort of thing so when they share photos with me, those photos are HUGE and I end up having to resize them to even see what they’re about. I’m so impressed at how considerate you are, wanting to resize your photographs before you share them with friends and family.
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