How to make a pic smaller in size

I use a 5.0 megapixel camera, and I have images that are beyond 1 meg. I need to upload these pics but need them below 50K. How can I make the file size smaller?

Thank you in advance

Hi BigTimeNovice....what software do you currently use for images? Have you tried Irfanview? It's a great little image editing software that will fix you right up. And it's free. Make sure you get the plugins that go with it.

You can download it from here:

www.irfanview.com

I use this, as do many of the members here at Virtual Dr.

Hope this helps!!

Photolady,

I use irfanview, but I don't know what option to use to make the file size smaller.

thank you

Resize them....

Open Irfanview > File > Open > Navigate to your image > Click the image > Image > "Resize/Resample"

And if you have quite a few images you'd like to resize you can do a batch resize... although that entails a bit more work. Many options in the batch function so you might want to practice with it a bit.

Also, on the camera you should have an option to alter the image size that it outputs before you even snap a pic...!

Once you have the image open in irfanview, go to Image as DuaneB suggested, put a tick in "Resize" instead of "Resize/Resample".

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Originally posted by BigTimeNovice
Photolady,

I use irfanview, but I don't know what option to use to make the file size smaller.

thank you

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http://www.somewhere-in-time.net/tutorial/irfanview/

Thank you everybody for helping. That helped me with the problem.

Glad your on top of it.

That is one of my pet hates, when people send me photos that are 800K+ often 1Mb+ through email at home and we only have dial-up.

The main perpertrator of this henous crime is my brother who I have told him that redcuing the JPG size and or quality will do wonders for the reduction in size.

But no matter what I say he just keeps on sending them through in their enormity.

He's obviously been reading too many of those spam emails about enlarging things and needs to realise in some cases, smaller is better.

When resizing and saving as a jpg, click the options and move the quality slider to achieve the size you want, somewhere around 60-70 should get you there. I normally resize mine to 800x600 using the standard dimensions which makes it quick n easy then I use the quality variable when using "save as" to shrink to a reasonable size for emailing, etc.