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I see a couple of comments about pictures being the wrong size. If you 1) have a pc and 2) have the image on your pc you can do the following. I don't recall the original place of this document that I copied word-for-word into notepad, but it works
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I know I am little late, but here is a wee lesson I wrote for my wife and her friends on how to resize pics with WinXp:
Here is the location to download the "Power Toy."
Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
There are dozens and dozens of different power toys on this page that you can use, today we are just concerned with the one called:
Image Resizer (imageresizer.exe). It is in the blue column on the right side of the page, it's 8th inline as I write this, but that may change.
Installing
1. Simply download that file (the .exe) to a location on your computer where you can find it later, the download should take just a few seconds
as it is a very small file.
2. Run (double click) the file to install the tool. You will need to click 'next' and 'yes' a few times, leave all the settings as default.
It should be pretty straight forward and easy to understand.
3. Click "Finish" at the end of the install process and you are ready to go.
Using
It's very important to note, the Image Resizer is not a program that will show up in your "Start Menu." It is a part of windows like
"Cut and Paste." Just another part of the operating system so don't go looking for a new application like you would after installing other programs.
1. Right Click on an image (or group of images).
2. From the pop-up menu that appears you will select "Resize Pictures." A new window should appear.
3. Choose the size you want. I normally use Large (1024X768), that usually makes a nice image small enough for emailing, but still full screen.
4. Click OK. The tool will now make a copy of the image (or images) in the same folder as your source file.
Renaming is automatic, IE: myprettypicture.jpg will be copied and renamed to myprettypicture(Large).jpg. If everything is still in default mode
the original file will not be affected, chose the "Advanced" option to change this setting if you like.
That's all there is too it, in my experience a mega size file of around 2000K will often be reduced to less than 100K and still be
full screen and with no obvious loss in detail.
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