Comments on: resizing photos in Windows XP

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:49:35 +0000

Ed: I hadn’t heard about Irfanview when I wrote this post but I’ve since learned about it, downloaded it and use it frequently. I tend to use it for viewing images but I’ll look into its resizing capabilities too.

Thanks for the tip!

By: ed

ed — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:36:49 +0000

I found the easiest “Irfanview”, a (small download) free program that you can find here: http://www.irfanview.com
You can do so much more with it, but as far as reducing photo size:
Once you have your Irfanview program installed, open it and click on “file” then “open” and a window (with a preview window included!) will open in which you then can select the photo. Open and then you go to “image” then select “resize” (or quicker still: press “R” while holding down the Ctrl key). Finally choose the size you want. Note: You can also convert a whole batch of them in one go: Go to “file” and select “Batch conversion” and then select the photos you want to resize. It is an excellent free software program and you can do “Photoshop-like” things and much more. Slideshows and the lot. Enjoy and good luck!

By: benn1

benn1 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:32:10 +0000

Excellent thankyou so much great help

By: dan

dan — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 15:41:56 +0000

Brittany: Try resizing by percent (the second instructions) instead of by absolute. I could have sworn both ways resized the image when I tested them, but I just tried it on Windows XP and the first way just cropped the image.

By: Brittany

Brittany — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:56:19 +0000

When I try this it just cuts my photo to the size I want it instead of shrinking it. I don’t know what the problam is?

By: dan

dan — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:57:39 +0000

Carlos: Thanks for your comment. I’m glad you found the instructions helpful.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:40:09 +0000

WOw!, thanks for the instructions, so simple, fast and extremely helpful. I browsed and browsed, until I found you!

Thanks!

By: darcy

darcy — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:20:59 +0000

Thank you! I have been trying to figure out how to resize using what I already have. It bugs me to put pix on a cd to show on tv screen and have them all different sizes. When It’s something I’ve scanned I know how to make it the right size so that it fills the tv screen. But pix from my digital or emailed to me from someone else are all different sizes. Thanks

By: dan

dan — Mon, 12 Dec 2005 02:13:02 +0000

Dave: Thanks for the additions.

By: Dave Gray

Dave Gray — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:29:20 +0000

Thanks for the instructions. Now I don’t have to blog it. =)

I have two suggestions for your article -
1) Clarify that if Edit doesn’t bring up Paint they should be able to right click->Open->Paint.
2) Usually folks are resizing to make the image smaller. There are two ‘knobs’ to do this - 1) dimensions, as covered above, 2) file format encoding. As for 2, people should be sure to use JPG for photos, and PNG for straight edge / logo type images.

Thanks again.