The Kenningtons

Digital Cameras for Teachers

Enhancing, Emailing and Presenting Photos

Easy ways to resize pictures

Irfan Viewer (download free at http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm) allows you to easily resize by going to: Image/Resize/Resample and filling in the dimensions you want it resized to. Remember to save the picture with a different name than your original!

Adobe also provides a free Starter Edition of its Album (click this link). Starter Edition is limited to organizing and simple crop & redeye. It is helpful in resizing images for emailing:

Resize using Easy Thumbnails:
1. First, open a program like Easy Thumbnails (free download at http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/index.php) and navigate to the picture you want to resize.

2. Go to the "Settings" tab and select the size you want it resized to.

3. Then go to the "Preview" page and click the "Make" button. Easy Thumbnails will resize the picture.

4. You will find the new thumbnail with a new name created in the same folder with your original pictur

5. Or, you can navigate to the picture on your hard drive, right click it, and it will bring up a menu that allows you to make a thumbnail of that picture. The thumbnail will appear in the same folder as your original photo.

Digital Cameras for Teachers

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