Digital cameras forum: new to digital- how to make the photo smaller when emailing?

This tiny program works like a dream, just hilight the pics you want to reduce in your pics folder and right click. Lets you choose from a variety of sizes and it can do a whole batch at once as well.

www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

You can get it there, it's 100% FREE!!!

This gets confusing.

You normally see the resolution set to 72, if you turn off resample and change to resolution to 300....
the file size remains the same.

The only thing that is affected is the ''printed'' size of the photo.
It will look the same on the computer screen.

At 300 you will get a small print.
but it will look really good.
At 25 you will get a large print.
but it will look poor.

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If you reduce the dimensions of a photo file, you toss away some pixels and reduce the file size.

You can then take that reduced photo file and do a ''resize/resample'' and make it back to its original size.
Pixels are added by interpolation.
The result is a same size file as the original but the quality of the image is degraded.

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If you throw them away, you are losing part of the image. Without resampling, changing an image's size merely changes the number of pixels displayed in an inch or centimeter or whatever unit of measure you use. I hope you're not taking an image which is 1,540 pixels wide (22 x 70ppi) and saving it with a width of 700 pixels (10 x 70ppi). If you are, you are throwing away more than half of your image data. What usually happens is that you keep the 1,540 pixels, but display them in 10 inches (154ppi) rather than 22 (70ppi).

However, if you are really sure that you never want to see anything more than 70ppi with a width of 7 inches, then you should resample the image. The result will be a width of 490 pixels.

BTW, I know dpi is bandied about the internet as synonymous with ppi. It really isn't. Most usage of dpi applies to inkjets these days, and it means dots per inch. That's not the same thing as pixels per inch. My printer's lowest setting is 720dpi, and its highest is 2880dpi. That does NOT mean I need images with 2880 ppi.