Kendall,

If you're using regular scanned photos for prints, then they're probably at 300dpi. That's what you need for them to appear correctly on photo paper, but your screen can only display 75dpi. So, for example, a 150dpi wide image will take up two inches of screen. If you have a standard 4 x 6 print in the it will display over 18 inches of screen.

You might have the small program Imaging for Windows in your Windows Accessories (Start menu, programs, accessories), that you can use to open the photo. Open your photo in that program, then go to the menu item PAGE and drop down to PROPERTIES. A menu pops up--go over to the RESOLUTION tab and a drop down menu lets you choose 100, 200, or 300 dpi. Choose 100 and it will bring it down smaller for the monitor. The other thing to do is leave it as dense as it is now but tell the browser to display it smaller. In which case, you move over one tab to SIZE and set the width and height. It helps to know the math because it looks like there isn't a button to lock the proportions in this program. (Locked proportions allow you to change just one dimension and the other adjusts itself. On the other hand, if you want to look a little taller in the photo, or slimmer, not locking the proportion is the feature for you!)

SRS