How to shrink pics??

[CKY_Alliance]

I want to post some pics of a friends gun in the b/s/t forum but they are to big. So how do you shrink them?

[Echo419]

Start>Programs>Acessories>Paint
- Image Stretch/Skew... Then choose the percentage or dimensions you want your picture to become... Then drag the picture boundaries (at the edge of the grey) if needed. then file save as.. make sure you save as .jpg NOT BMP

echo

[nippinout]

Don't stand so close to the monitor.

But yah, you can use Paint to shrink your pics

[AcemanPB]

you should download the picture shrinker powertoy from microsoft. Once installed all you do is right click on the picture (or group of pictures) and select "resize." From there you either pick small, medium, large, or enter your own custom pixel dimensions. Very handy tool and it beats having to always open paint (specially when you are resizing multiple pictures).

[MarkM]

Or you can leave them as they are and upload them to a server other than AO and use this code to make them show

<a href="LinkToImageHere"><img src="LinkToImageHere" width="600" height="450"></img></a> 

This will make it so that your picture will only be 600x450 but if someone clicks on it, it will bring up the full sized picture.

If you change the pixel values the pic will alter as well. All you have to do is copy this code and insert the url of the pic in place of the "LinkToImageHere" sections and yes you do have to do it twice.

http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?t=171401 see here for webhosting ideas and doing your part to ensure it doesn't make life harder for AO

[Hexis]

MarkM that method requires the web browser to resize the image on the fly, which usually looks ugly, and in no way makes the file smaller.

I like to do an actual resize in an image editing program (check out Gimp if you need a free one) and include the small version in the page, and link to the large version.

[MarkM]

As long as the dimensions of the original pic are correct in ratio then they will display correctly, I know it doesn't reduce the size of the pic....I did say that but it will display on AO for the for sale thread AND give the option of viewing the full sized version also...that way it stops the posts of can you send me a larger pic. the coding works fine for GOTM but just to show you what I mean about ratio's

With code left alone with the sizes as given before

<a href="http://www.eclipsewatches.com/12264/cougars/images/closeup.jpg"><img src="http://www.eclipsewatches.com/12264/cougars/images/closeup.jpg" width="600" height="450"></img></a>

Same pic but fiddled with the pixels numbers to force an off ratio view

<a href="http://www.eclipsewatches.com/12264/cougars/images/closeup.jpg"><img src="http://www.eclipsewatches.com/12264/cougars/images/closeup.jpg" width="500" height="250"></img></a>

Same pic but in original form (but shrunk down for the web)



Not a single pic taking any of AO's bandwidth whenever you do a resize of an original you lose detail so even the clearish pic above is lacking in some detail....I will try and find the real original then edit this post to include it and then you will see what I mean.

Real original