How to Resize Photos in Windows XP
The ability to upload photos from cell phones and cameras to your computer is a great feature. The only drawback is that cameras usually save the image at a huge size that's difficult to view and takes up a lot of space. Microsoft offers a free tool to resize photos easily. Other photo editing software allows you to resize your photos, as well as perform advanced editing.
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Instructions
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Download Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP, which includes Image Resizer. Open your Internet browser to Microsoft's website and search for "power toys" or "image resizer".
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Organize your photographs. Instead of keeping the default name assigned by the camera when you save the photo, it is probably easier to give each photo a name that you recognize.
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Double-click on the folder that contains your pictures. Click "View" on the menu and choose "Thumbnail."
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Right-click on the picture you want be resize. From the menu, choose "Resize pictures." Choose the new size. "Small" is sized to fit on a 640 by 480 pixel screen, "Medium" is for 800 by 600 pixels, "Large" is 1024 by 768 pixels and "Handheld PC" fits on a 240 by 320 pixel screen. Click "Ok." A copy of the picture will be saved with the original intact.
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Click the "advanced" tab for additional features. Set the size you want manually, restrict resizing to smaller photos only, or specify that the original can be replaced with the newly created picture.
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Hold down the "Ctrl" key and click on each picture you want to resize to resize more than one picture at a time. To resize a whole series of pictures, hold down the "Shift" key and arrow down the list of pictures.
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Search the Internet to find photo-editing software with more advanced features. Applications like Photoshop and Paintshop Pro allow you to resize pictures as well as edit them. Free applications like Irfanview also have advanced features.
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pennynickols
Jul 21, 2009
Thanks for writing this article that clearly explains how to get Image Resizer PowerToy from Microsoft for Windows XP. This will save me a lot of time as my other image software wasn't doing what I needed it to.
