Thread: how to shrink my pics

Originally Posted by abaddonxi

When I was a kid we used to stick chip packets in the oven and they'd shrink. Maybe you could try the same thing with your photos.

do you come from the old country mate did you watch too much blue peter as a pup ?? lol

Originally Posted by lardy

do you come from the old country mate did you watch too much blue peter as a pup ?? lol

Blue Peter, that brings back memories, although not sure where from. Lived in UK for a year when I was a kid, but we didn't have a tv.

Should I have said crisp packets?

If you're using windows....

google search "image resizer powertoy" ... (for your operating system)

download and install.

It adds an right click option "resize picture"

Highlight all the pics you wish to resize, right click and select "resize picture".
Select one of four std. sizes or enter a custom size.
click Ok ... and off it goes, done in no time.
Adds a size suffix to the original file name

Couple of extra options:
allow resizing original pics (or copies), so file names don't change.
and make pics smaller but not larger

I use it all the time.

Stevo

Originally Posted by lardy

do you come from the old country mate did you watch too much blue peter as a pup ?? lol

If he had been watching blue peter he would of made the chip packets out of straws first and covered with PVA and put glitter on it before going in the oven silly

Originally Posted by dullbird

If he had been watching blue peter he would of made the chip packets out of straws first and covered with PVA and put glitter on it before going in the oven silly

I was in Norfolk, the only craft we did was corn dollies.

Think there might have been a compulsory class in roof thatching, too.

Originally Posted by abaddonxi

I was in Norfolk, the only craft we did was corn dollies.

Think there might have been a compulsory class in roof thatching, too.

you poor thing what was learning the alphabet like oooo rrrrrr ooooo rrrrr Hard I would imagine

Here is a link to the Powertoys resizer that Schmez posted.

Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP

Its great but only XP, not Vista operating systems. Just install it, then once its installed you find the photo you want to resize, right click on the photo and there will now be a resize image option in the menu that comes up when you right click, just click then select the size you want and its done. You can do 1 or a 100 photos at once. Its good because it also creates new files so if you have some high res images that you want to keep but want to make them smaller so you can post them on the forum etc then it creates new smaller pics. matt