All you folks with gigantic avatar files, listen up....Someone asked me:In reply to:hey, i have lots of photos that i would like to make smaller, etc. And i was wondering if you could tell me how to download irfanview, and how to use it.Irfanview is a nice little malware-free image editing utility for Windows that can be downloaded for free.______________________________________________________=== DOWNLOADING ===Go to http://www.irfanview.comOn the left side of the page, click on DownloadOn the download page, click on TUCOWS Worldwide Network - Download IrfanViewChoose the button after Download Now: that matches your operating system. Clip on XP if you're running windows XP.The file will download. I assume you'll know which directory it goes into. (If you're using Firefox, you can start it from the download manager, and you don't have worry about it.) Click or double-click on the downloaded install file (however you have it set up) to start it going.Agree with everything it asks you, and it will install itself. [Double-] Click on the desktop icon to start the program. You can drag an image file explorer icon right into the program.=== USING ===Crop...Keep in mind that an avatar's maximum size is 90 x 90 pixels; it can be smaller. If it's bigger than 90 pixels in either dimension, it will be squashed down to 90, and the image will be distored if it's not square. However, if the image is no larger than 90 x 90, it won't be distorted (e.g., 90 x 80 is fine). You can crop the image first if you like, to display the interesting part of the image (a good idea, since a 90 x 90 image is not very detailed). You can lick on a region of the image, drag the curor, and let go of the mouse button, to create a box to crop to. You can drag the corner of the square to fine tune the selection area. Then go to Edit -> Crop selection to do it.Resize...Under Image, -> Resize/Resample, and play with the dialog box.Save...Go to File -> Save as. Choose JPG (JPEG) format for simplicity. Under the Options dialog box that opens, uncheck everything. Save quality of 75% is perfectly adequate for most purposes.
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How to resize an image using Irfanview
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that was steve with another important daily announcement
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Weasels don't make good pets.
Hey, I'm hijacking my very first thread!
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Clean up on aisle 10
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I got it again..........But you need to price check that weasel because i do not think we take returns.
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yea that is a good program but i mainly downloaded it for the batch conversion stuff it has
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GIMP is also another very good image editing program that is free and available for more than just that evil OS.
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Yes, but I'll bet there aren't many Linux/Unix users who don't already know about it. There's also a version of GIMP for Windows, but I'm not sure that it's the easiest thing to use for simple things, although it's powerful.The Mac comes with good utilities out of the box, I think.
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thats what i use in my computer class at school, i like Windows
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I found a list of free Windows image editing tools on about.com....looks interesting...GIMP is the first thing mentioned:http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/imageediting/tp/freephotoedw.htm
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Someone asked, basically, How do I reduce the size of an image (some message boards have size (i.e. image dimensions and storage requirement).In Irfanview, when you click on File -> Save as..., and you've chosen JPG as the file type, you get another box titled "JPEG/GIF save options". In that dialog box, at the top, there's a slider to the right of "Save quality:". If you slide it toward the left, you will get smaller (in terms of kilobytes) images of lower quality; if you slide it toward the right, you will get larger images of higher quality. For small (in dimension) images, you will rarely visibly notice the difference if the quality is high, so the extra storage the images uses would be a waste.(You know, this site would benefit if there were a limit on avatar storage size. The huge (in KB) ones slow things down, regardless of the dimensions of the original image.)