Anyone good with picture editing?

[87spree70superbee]

I want to change my avatar to a picture of my personal Spree, but when I go to upload the pic, I get an error message because the file is too big. Anyone know how to reduce the size of the file?



Thanks
Nick

[motormike]

In Windows, after calling up your "Pictures" folder, double-click on the selected photo and look for the header bar that comes up with the category "Open". Click on that and see "Microsoft Office Pictures Manager".
Click on that and you will be given the option to edit photos. Click on "EDIT" and select "Resize" ...from there you can choose pre-set size or customize your own size. It takes some effort and patience to learn this. Wish you all the luck....

[patthesoundguy]

If you have windows xp download something called the picture resizer power toy, that may do the trick. Its available for vista and win7 but takes more googling. I've done it in Photoshop as well.

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[mousewheels]

Good tips from the above posters. There are a bazillion ways to reduce image size in number of bytes.
Goal is to keep photo's under 400k bytes or so....


I often use low tech ways to resize for posting. These are built into Windows.

--- Win 7/8 ---
Display the picture on screen
Use Win7/8 built in 'snippingtool.exe' to select and crop the picture
Use SaveAs from the snipping tool.
Select .jpg as the file format
Saving from Snippingtool reduces image size at a slight loss in image quality

--- Old school - works Win3.1 and up. ---
1) Display photo on screen, make sure it is the front most (active) window.
2) Activate simultaneously keys Alt+PrintScn // Print screen is a button on the keyboard. This action copy's current active window to Windows Clipboard

Run mspaint.exe
Paste with "Ctrl-C"
Crop as desired and resize if desired with MSPaint scaling features
Select SaveAs and select .jpg for output
MSPaint also uses higher (lossy) compression, making resulting images smaller