Who can tell me...

[Darrell Ward]

...how to reduce KB on photos using Windows 7? On the old Windows xp, I could just right click the picture, and click on small, and it would automatically change the KB to a size you could post on the forum. If I reduce the pictures on 7, the KB is still like 179! @#!&$#!!! I'm slowly trying to learn 7, f-ing thing didn't come with instructions of course, that's the thing I hate most about computers. They assume everyone's a programmer. :mad:

[johnnathan]

Please try this:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Resize-a-picture-using-Paint

HTH
John

[Second Hand Pat]

If you have MS Office try Microsoft Office Picture Manager on Window 7. You have had to open the picture and resize it under the Edit Options.

[pcsb23]

I use photoshop but it is expensive ...

If you don't have any picture editing s/w installed it would be worth getting some. There are loads that are free too.

http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showthread.php?80765-free-picture-resizing-program
http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showthread.php?71603-Decent-Photo-Editing-Freeware - this one takes a bit of patience but really is good ...
http://forum.simplydiscus.com/showthread.php?69422-Really-Easy-Image-Resizer-software...

or have a look here ...
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/gmm/fwgcomp.html
http://sourceforge.net/search/?q=jpeg+resize
http://picasa.google.com/

It is best to aim for a pixel size of around 800x600 and a dpi of 72 - there is no point going higher on upload to a website as most are rendered or reduced anyways ...

And always save as jpg or jpeg ... other formats are not as good (well perhaps png is but ....)
hth

[Stag]

You can just use "paint". Paste your image and go under tab Image/Strech/Skew.

[rdiscus]

Right click, open with 'paint' ... Image>Resize

[DiscusOnly]

http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/releases/view/30247

Is similiar to the PowerToys image resizer in XP

[Darrell Ward]

Thanks guys. I shall "play" some more. :)

[ericatdallas]

I agree with the above, if that's all you want to do... I use XnView and/or Irfanview.

I like the ability to do batch renames and resizes. Both are freeware...

[Bud Smith]

...how to reduce KB on photos using Windows 7? On the old Windows xp, I could just right click the picture, and click on small, and it would automatically change the KB to a size you could post on the forum. If I reduce the pictures on 7, the KB is still like 179! @#!&$#!!! I'm slowly trying to learn 7, f-ing thing didn't come with instructions of course, that's the thing I hate most about computers. They assume everyone's a programmer. :mad:

I had the same problem but my son who is going to college for computers down loaded a program off the internet called Light Image Resizer 4
It is very simple to use ( believe me if I can use it anybody can)