Picture ReSizing Software
Picture ReSizing Software
July-2nd-2002, 10:40 AM
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Protege Owner
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not the easiest or best solution... but pretty much all installations of Windows come with MSpaint as part of the default install... it can resize pics under the Image->Stretch/Skew pull down... in the stretch put a percentage that is less that 100 into the boxes and it will resize the image accordingly.
Not the easiest... but certainly cheap!
Not the easiest... but certainly cheap!
July-2nd-2002, 10:44 AM
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Bruce Leroy
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Calgary, AB, Canada
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Yeah, I've been using Paint to resize photos taken with a "normal" camera that I've scanned into my PC. It's a bit of a pain in the butt, but it works well. Only problem is that Paint only lets you save as a .bmp that turns out to be frickin huge.
So I downloaded another freeware program called Ahaview. It can convert .bmp to .jpg and does a good job.
So I downloaded another freeware program called Ahaview. It can convert .bmp to .jpg and does a good job.
July-2nd-2002, 01:47 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Indiana
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If you are familiar with Open Source software on the Unix platform, there is a peice of software the is supposedly as good as Photoshop, but it is free. It is called The Gimp. it can be found and downloaded at
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html
I highly recommend this if you are not wanting to buy Photoshop and are afraid to get tangled into "free" commercial software (can't say I blame you).
Hope this helps!
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html
I highly recommend this if you are not wanting to buy Photoshop and are afraid to get tangled into "free" commercial software (can't say I blame you).
Hope this helps!
July-2nd-2002, 03:58 PM
#6
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Originally posted by Pro_fan
Only problem is that Paint only lets you save as a .bmp that turns out to be frickin huge.
Only problem is that Paint only lets you save as a .bmp that turns out to be frickin huge.
July-2nd-2002, 05:00 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Des Plaines, IL (NW of Chicago)
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IrfanView
If you don't need paint capailities, Irfanview is hard to beat. The main site at http://www.irfanview.com/ seems to be down right now (at least from where I am), but there's a mirror site at http://www.ryansimmons.com/users/irfanview/ and it's available for download from Tucows.
Excellent for slideshows, color adjustments, cropping, batch or single-picture resizing, and converting between formats.
Excellent for slideshows, color adjustments, cropping, batch or single-picture resizing, and converting between formats.
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