photo attributes

[Guest]

is there anyway to automatically set the size of photos that you download
from a digial camera. Ie: When I email photos the files are always to big
unless I go to paint and INDIVIDUALLY change the size of the photo under
attributes. Is there a setting so that when I upload pics for camera to
computer, they are already set at a sixe of about 600x800. Thank you

 

[Michael J. Mahon]

is there anyway to automatically set the size of photos that you download
from a digial camera. Ie: When I email photos the files are always to big
unless I go to paint and INDIVIDUALLY change the size of the photo under
attributes. Is there a setting so that when I upload pics for camera to
computer, they are already set at a sixe of about 600x800. Thank you

You really don't want to do what you are suggesting. You want to save
your photos in full resolution, then create lower resolution *copies*
to send in email.

There are a number of free programs that will do this resizing and
copying as a batch process. Try Googling "resizing photos", for
example.

Otherwise, you might just as well use a much cheaper camera. ;-)
You will need all the resolution you have when you make prints,
and any prints that your email recipients make from what you send
will either be quite small or quite blurry.

-michael

Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/

"The wastebasket is our most important design
tool--and it is seriously underused."

 

[John Inzer]

is there anyway to automatically set the size of photos
that you download from a digial camera. Ie: When I email
photos the files are always to big unless I go to paint
and INDIVIDUALLY change the size of the photo under
attributes. Is there a setting so that when I upload pics
for camera to computer, they are already set at a sixe of
about 600x800. Thank you

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As Michael says...don't lower the quality
of your images by making adjustments
in your camera settings. It's best if you
always use the highest quality settings
and resize as needed after the files are
downloaded to your hard drive.

If you right click an image file you should
see an option to...Send To / Mail Recipient...
This should open a dialog screen that
asks if you would like to resize the images.
Clicking "OK" should open a new e-mail
message with the selected/resized image
attached. BTW...this only resizes the attached
file...not your original.

If you do not see the resize screen...try the
following:

go to...Start / Run and type:

"REGSVR32 SHIMGVW.DLL"
(without the quotes)(Yes, there's
a space between 2 and S)

Click...OK.

A dialog box should report the following:

"DllRegisterServer in SHIMGVW.DLL succeeded"

Also there's a free Powertoy that is excellent
for creating resized copies for e-mail.

OK, go to the following link and download and
install: ImageResizer.exe

http://tinyurl.com/36n

Then you can open any folder that contains
images and you will have an option to resize.
Just right click the selected image files and
choose Resize Pictures from the menu. You
can select one image or a whole group.

The program will place the resized copies in
the folder with your originals.
(Tip: *Never* overwrite your originals)

To insure that images in both portrait and
landscape orientation are resized to the
same dimensions...go to...Advanced...
and enter the largest number in both fields.
IOW...for 600x800...enter 800 in both fields.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

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[info]

is there anyway to automatically set the size of photos that you download
from a digial camera. Ie: When I email photos the files are always to big
unless I go to paint and INDIVIDUALLY change the size of the photo under
attributes. Is there a setting so that when I upload pics for camera to
computer, they are already set at a sixe of about 600x800. Thank you

Try Using PictureGirdle - its free and will resize hundreds of photos
at once:

its at:
www.scrammit.com