Lots of Pictures? What’s Next?

If you’re coming back from vacation with hundreds or thousands of vacation pictures, your next step after moving them to your computer is figuring how to share them with friends and family. The problem these days is that everyone has a digital camera which takes pictures of ENORMOUS size. How can you get them down to size which are more reasonable and easy to send or load on a website. FastStone is one Free option which will allow you to resize, crop, reduce redeye, and all those basic functions you want to do before you release them to the world.

Two other great features is that it will do batch processing, you can change multiple files at one time, and you can also create a slide show. I’m impressed!

Easy Resize of Photos

Microsoft has an easy addon which will resize a photo from Windows Explorer with the Right Click of a mouse. Download the Image Resizer.

Resizing Photos – the easy way.

Since the photos from my camera tend to be on the large size – usually about 3000kb, I don’t like to email or post such large files. While I could open Photoshop and resize the file that way, another quick and easy way is to just right click on the file and choose – Resize Picture.

You don’t have many options, but it does work fairly well.
It will take a 2258KB file and reduce it 122KB.
Unfortunately it doesn’t change the dpi to 72 dpi, but stays at the original dpi.
All in all, for many instances – it’s great.