Picture help

by **Nigel** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:20 am

Hello Rhys, thanks for popping over, I'll create this thread as James asked me in the mods area,

James meet Rhys, Rhys meet James

by **Rhys** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:24 am

Hi, whats the prob? might be able to help (if I can)

by **James** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 8:54 am

Hi Rhys, I am trying to download a program that enables me to save pictures and avatars in the size I want them. Sick of opening Paint and creating tiny images on a canvas the size of London. There is no way of shrinking the size of the picture saved and as a reuslt my avatar looks like this:

http://i10.tinypic.com/30lhx09.jpg

WHY WHY WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by **SLine** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:29 am

Download this simple application - it doesn't take up any space and will happily meet all your resizing needs.

http://www.irfanview.com

1. Open your file
2. Image -> Resize
3. Save

by **nuster100** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:56 am

What about us Mac junkies?

Jay

by **jont** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:01 am

nuster100 wrote:What about us Mac junkies?

I use gimp - which really a linux tool ported to the Mac and is complete overkill for simple picture resizing, but it does most other things too, and is open source. You need X11 installed though as I don't think there's a native version for OS X.

Try a google (eg image resize os x) and I bet you get some similar options.

Jon
<edit> Doesn't iPhoto support resizing pictures? or Preview? I'm not at home so I can't check right now.

by **James** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:01 am

Will give that a go. Its balmy, in this day and age you slpash out on a new PC and you cant even select the size of a poxy picture...

by **James** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:03 am

jont wrote:
nuster100 wrote:What about us Mac junkies?

I use gimp - which really a linux tool ported to the Mac and is complete overkill for simple picture resizing, but it does most other things too, and is open source. You need X11 installed though as I don't think there's a native version for OS X.

Try a google (eg image resize os x) and I bet you get some similar options.

Jon

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by **jont** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:19 am

Sorry - I assumed someone using the term "junkie" and uses a Mac is reasonably techie and will understand what I'm waffling about.

jont paraphrased wrote:There are some programs included with the Mac that may already do what you want (iPhoto and Preview). If you are a masochist techie and like learning unnecessarily complicated programs to do very simple things then there lots of other options which are free in everything but the amount of time you need to spend getting them working...

by **Gareth** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:29 am

When I have had to use Microsoft systems, I have found XnView to be suitable for browsing, viewing and scaling, (as well as a range of other types of manipluation).

by **7db** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:57 pm

We use PaintShopPro for work pics. About £99 licence, IIRC.

by **stuartb** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:43 pm

This is a nice fast image browser and also allows basic editing (including resizing). It can also do batches of images if you need it too. Easy to use. Free.

http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Or you could try Google's Picasa
http://picasa.google.com/

This will find all your pics on your PC, display them in easy to find folders and then allows you to do basic editing and also add effects (some nice some nasty). It also supports very easy creation of web albums should you so wish. Doddle to use, free.

http://picasa.google.com/

Stuart

by **SammyTheSnake** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:38 pm

James wrote:Hi Rhys, I am trying to download a program that enables me to save pictures and avatars in the size I want them. Sick of opening Paint and creating tiny images on a canvas the size of London. There is no way of shrinking the size of the picture saved and as a reuslt my avatar looks like this:

http://i10.tinypic.com/30lhx09.jpg

WHY WHY WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In answer to your question, it's because mspaint sucks. If, however, you just want a small image, you could try just looking in the menus: "Image" menu -> Attributes -> change the width and height values.

You probably want to change the size before you do your drawing, or at least put all the interesting stuff in the top left as it just drops the stuff off to the right / below if you shrink the image size.

Others have already covered what to do if you want to use something other than mspaint, so I won't go much into it except to say anyone who pays £99 for a license for an image manipulation program needs to have their head examined and have another look at gimp.

Cheers & God bless
Sam "SammyTheSnake" Penny

by **nuster100** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:40 pm

yeah, would only pay out if i needed somthing as powerful as photoshop cs2.

If you dont need that much power, there are free alternatives.

Jay

by **James** » Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:41 pm

I have Picasa! Doh,never thought of that... I will try, still have my doubts

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