Newbie: How do I resize pictures.

[susey35]

Hi, I'm new to this forum too perhaps someone can help I wanted to put a picture of my whiptails to try and identify them and hopefully sex them but when I try to upload I get a message saying that they are too big can someone tell me how I can change this. It is a digital camera picture
Thanks
Susan

[Mod edit: Remove all-capitals, and fix minor punctuation to make it more readable - and as it is a new thread, I'm splitting this to a separate thread --Mats].

[Richard B]

Mats has previously written
"Reducing the size can be done in any reasonable photo editing software. If you haven't got one, google for "IrfanView" - it's a really simple photo editor - it hasn't got a lot of features, but it does the basic stuff like resizing (you can even resize ALL images in a directory as a batch), simple colour changes (make it brighter/darker/more or less contrast, gamma adjustment and colour balancing)."

& Oldman quoted
"If you have the MS Office software, it includes a picture editor that works great when you select "resize". You can even open a picture with Paint and resize it by going to "Image" "Attributes" and using the size that it displays. Only use these tools with a copy of your picture or you will mess up your original and reduce its sharpness. Once you are working with a copy, you can do anything you want and if it messes up, go make another copy to play with and delete the ruined one."

Hope this helps - ps Take the caps lock off so text is NOT ALL UPPER CASE as this is considered a bit rude as it is shouting - it's a common mistake

[susey35]

Hello
thanks bit new to all this technical stuff doh hahahahah
susan

[MatsP]

Welcome to Planet Catfish, Susan.

It appears that the advice given has solved your problem, as you have posted some pictures in the ID forum.

I hope you don't mind that I split your post from the other thread.

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Mats