resizing pics

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Marin85 · #1 Post by **Marin85** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 8:46 pm

Hi,
I would like to ask for some advice how to resize pics in order to prevent horizontal scrolling in the forum. I have 15.4'' WUXGA screen on my ThinkPad and whenever I take a desktop screenshot or even only a partial screenshot with the snipping tool or export some office or pdf document as a pic, it appears quite huge in the post. For instance, I posted some table from excel: I converted the excel file to .pdf with settings for minimal storage size of the pdf file, then I cropped all the blank spaces out of the pdf and then exported the pdf as a .tiff image. All in all just under 7KB, nevertheless the image appears huge. When I tried to resize the .tiff image using paint, its storage size grew over 100 KB... So, my question is this: Is there anything that can be done to reduce the optical size of the image, yet keeping it under 56KB, so that I can embed the image in the forum?

#2 Post by **GomJabbar** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:19 pm

If you host the image at http://www.imageshack.us/ there is an option before you upload to resize the image to a smaller optical size.

Marin85 · #3 Post by **Marin85** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:50 pm

Ah true, great! Thanks a lot, Gom! That worked.

EDIT: I spoke too early. I tested this in my last post (the antivirus comparison) and when I checked the image size, it is now over 200 KB

#4 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:58 pm

Using the popular Irfanview, it has many options to resize a picture. http://www.irfanview.com/

Marin85 · #5 Post by **Marin85** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 10:11 pm

Indeed, I photoshopped it a bit and the trick turned out to be resizing the image without resampling it. Of course, it is not the same quality, but it is still readable.

Thanks,

Marin

#6 Post by **JaneL** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 10:18 pm

Marin85 wrote:I would like to ask for some advice how to resize pics in order to prevent horizontal scrolling in the forum.

Post a link instead.

Marin85 · #7 Post by **Marin85** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:12 pm

JaneL wrote:Post a link instead.

Well, yes, that is the easiest way, but that was not the point. If it was, I wouldn´t have asked, would I.

#8 Post by **JaneL** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:16 pm

Marin85 wrote:Well, yes, that is the easiest way, but that was not the point. If it was, I wouldn´t have asked, would I.

<quirks brow>

You're feeling your oats tonight, aren't you?

lexicon · #9 Post by **lexicon** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 9:31 am

I'm using Photoshop to change Image size (Ctrl+Alt+I)
And Save for Web to adjust the compression (Shift+Ctrl+Alt+S)

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