How to Downsize Photos For Email Attachments and Blog Posts

By Amy S Trosen

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The best photograph to email or post on your blog is a photo that is small enough to be easily downloaded. Downsizing your digital photo (without changing it's dimensions) is a snap using Microsoft's Paint program.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Step1
Resized 50% Open a photo with Microsoft's Paint program. The image will be so large that you will likely only see a portion of the overall picture. Press control w [ctrl+w] to bring up the resize/skew menu. Change the resize horizontal value to 50%. Tab once and change the resize vertical value to 50%. Do nothing with the skew values.
Step2
Second resize 80% The picture is smaller, but not quite small enough for efficient use as an email attachment or blog post. Press [ctrl+w] to bring up the resize/skew menu a second time. This time change the horizontal and vertical resize boxes to 80% each. Again do nothing with the skew values.
Step3
Final result Save the image under a different title from the original. It is ready to be emailed or posted to a blog.

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