[Boatanchors] jpg size

[mikea]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:38:13PM -0400, William L Howard wrote:
> jpg size
> >telegrapher wrote:
> >>I need to learn how to do this.  I received 6 .jpg files on a piece of 
> >>equipment, 3 in each email and all are large not only in file size but 
> >>image wise as well.
> >>
> >>How can i resize them?  The way they are now i have to scroll across the 
> >>page, left to right and by the time i get to the right side i've 
> >>forgotten what was on the left side!  Small memory.
> >>
> >>Must be someway to copy them to someplace else and then resize them, i 
> >>hope.  any ideas.
> >>
> >>Larry
> >>W0OGH
> 
> If they come as an attachment, you can usually click on the symbol and have 
> it open in a picture viewer program that comes with the computer. If they 
> are part of the message, you will have to click and save to a file 
> someplace. Then you can go to a blank word processor document and insert 
> the picture and it will show up as a much smaller picture. You can then 
> either print it out or just delete it.
> If you have a scanner, the OS for the scanner should allow you to open the 
> saved picture in the viewer program. I have Paperport or my scanner and it 
> is called The Paperport Desk top. Paperport will not customize resize the 
> picture but it will reduce it to a size where you can see it all in a much 
> smaller format.
> 
> I also have the Photoshop program with up dates in case I want to actually 
> resize a picture. Photoshop, however, is a very expensive program to 
> purchase, costing well over several hundred dollars.

There are some free graphic editing programs that do quite well at 
this. The best freeware photo editor I know of is gimp, the Gnu
Image Manipulation Program. It has versions that will run on Windows,
as well on most Unices and Linuces. It's worth a _whole_ lot more than
the price, which is $0.

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Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin