imported_blade

Materials needed:
1) http://www.irfanview.com/ - ifran view
Cost = FREE
2) a picture
3) a brain
--------
hit up that website and download the free software irfanview. Clocking in at about 856 kb's it's a small free download so even 56k'ers can do this easily.

now...after installing that software find the image you wish to resize (format shouldn't matter due to the large format database the software supports)

so here is Irfanview's interface


you can play around with it to get used to how it works. you won't hurt any of your pictures permanently unless you save.

to resize a picture, you want to click on the image menu as shown




move your mouse down to "Resize/Resample" and click to bring up the following menu




now... along the right of this menu, you'll see a plethora of preset choices to pick from, OR where it says "set new size"



you can choose a custom size. now simply entering the maximum size allowed on PC (120 X 120) may or may not work determining by the original size of the picture. find the larger of the two numbers, or is the case above, 149, and make it 120. the software will automatically make the image the same ratio but smaller by entering that number.



click okay to see if you like the results. if you do, save the image to your desktop so it's easy to find when you go to the user CP to upload it. after uploading it, delete it but make sure you still have the original!

NoRiceInside

wow...paint does the exact same thing...

imported_blade

wow...not quite buddy...you can resize with paint, but you don't know exact figures (just percentages), you're limited to the formats and this software is awesome and quick to use for resizing and viewing pictures...

archemedes

I use irfanview for mine sometimes, but I now have some other software that came with my digital camera that does that plus some of the photoshop stuff

NoRiceInside

i guess that is better. i just rezise to an approximate then i go down by single percents till i get it to the pixels i want

imported_blade

yeah, and that works, it just takes longer. and for someone who doesn't even know how to do it, why not show them this way.

SOMBirdV6

nice good job blade.

photoshop i just go to image size and put it down :-d But not everyone has ps so that program works

imported_blade

yeah. spec since it's free.
thanks