Most modern Digital Cameras today’s takes rather good, high resolution pictures.

The problem is that these pictures are normally too big to use on the Internet.  Some of these image files can be up to 3 or 4 Megabytes big.

To give you an idea of the size of picture you need on the Internet; If you re size a picture to fit the whole of a 800×600 computer screen, the file will only be 120Kb (0r 0.12Mb) big. So you can see that the huge files your camera save are way too big to use on the Internet.

Not only will it take ages to upload those big pictures but some web applications will not allow you to upload it.

Here is a very quick and easy way to re size your photographs to a more suitable and usable size.  The software in the tutorial below will also allow you to re size multiple pictures.

Step 1

Download and install any one these programs:

Microsoft’s own PowerToy Image resizer
This program only works in Windows XP
Download at
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-S/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

Image Resizer PowerToy Clone for Windows
This program works well in both XP and Vista and works exactly the same as the one mentioned above
Download it here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phototoysclone/

Step 2
After you installed the program on your computer, restart your computer

Step 3
Go to your image folder where the photograph/s you want to resize are.

Step 4
Now select the photograph or photographs which you want to resize. You can select more than one photograph and have them all resized at the same time. This saves a lot of time.

Step 5
Press the right button of your mouse (ie right click the selected images)

Step 6
The following window will pop up. Select the size you want to resize it to.
If you want to create a separate smaller file, then you can just select the smaller file size and press the OK button and a copy of each picture will be created. You are done and you can upload your files.

If you need a file size not listed in the above screen, click the “Advanced” button

Step 7

You can enter a custom image size. For general web photographs 500×375 is sufficient. The first image on this page is 500 Pixels wide and I am sure that you can see what you want to see.

If you do not want to keep your large photo on your PC and you want the program to overwrite it with the smaller version you can select the last option in the advanced screen.

Just press OK and your pictures are ready