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Thread #102141   Message #2066792
Posted By: JohnInKansas
02-Jun-07 - 07:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
Serif Photo Plus 6.0
. This is the download site at Tucows. The download is about 19 MB, so getting it will take a while on a slow connection; but I didn't have any problems doing the download on my "worlds' slowest dial-up."

If you're NOT using Windows, you may want to pop back up to Tucows and look for a different version, but there's lots of info about the program splattered all over the web.

This program has been recommended as "does everything that Photoshop does" although it's admitted that it's not quite as "intuitive" to use as Photoshop. You should be able to get what you want with it, and you'll have lots of spare horsepower if you ever want to impress someone.

I haven't tried it, but downloaded it for my cheap-assed ^%!$@# trucker son - who, I see, still hasn't bothered to install it, so I still can't look at it unless I do the install for him.

Another way of working the problem is to use one of the accessory programs that typically comes with your inkjet printer, or that you can download from your printer-people. There's lots of variation in what these programs do for/to you, so personal evaluation is required.

The really grubby cheapassed don'tgiveashit method is to upload the picture to one of the common "shareyourpictureswithallyourfriends" websites. The site usually will atuomatically resize to a "web friendly" thumbnail/display size, and you can save it back from the web to get a "more usable" size - sometimes. Results may vary.

John