Yes, you can do this as explained below. However, think about what you want
to do with your pictures.
If you want to e-mail them, post them on the web or simply display them on
your computer screen you can make them smaller. If you want to print them,
the bigger the better your print will be. You can actually save your
original files to a CD if you think they take too much space on your hard
drive and just keep smaller files on your hard drive. Deleting original
files is not a good idea.
Image Resizing
A. To decrease the size of the file for e-mail, web publishing etc.
Go to this site and download the free Image Resizer. Exe file in one of your
folder.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp
Once in your folder, double click on it to install it.
Once installed, you right click on a photo file (or on a group of selected
photo files).
Click on Resize image on the opening menu.
A window will open, select the size you want.
New files will be added in your folder, same name as original file but with
the word (small) added.
The first time you use it, you may not see Resize image on the opening menu
after you right click on the file or if you see it, it may not work. If so,
do the following:
Click on Run, click on Start and type the following in the textbox:
REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL
and press the Enter key.
Note that there is a space between ...32 and SHI.
Also, you can download a free batch converter from here to resize pictures
and edit photos:
http://irfanview.com/
wendy said:
Hi..I just downloaded some pics of mine into my pics folder..but...the
files are huge..is there a way to make the files smaller? Oh ya please keep
it simple as I am new to this but learing lots from this newsgroup.
