Resize the photo to around 300 pixels (either dimension) (or 150 to 300kb) and you'll have a good size for posting to forums. There's no point in posting a meg size image, you can't tell the difference anyway. If you're using LInux then Gimp or Pinta are both good photo editing programs - and FREE!!! Back in the "bad old days" of Windoz I used PhotoShop, but that's sorta on the pricey side, or was back then.
With Windoz you can:
Using Paint in Windows
- Make a copy of the image file. ...
- Open the image in Paint. ...
- Select the entire image. ...
- Click the "Resize" button. ...
- Use the "Resize" fields to change the size of the image. ...
- Click "OK" to see your resized image. ...
- Drag the canvas edges to match the resized image. ...
- Save your resized image.
Thanks Ken and actually are so correct!
I tried two or three of the so called
free resizers . What they don't tell you is that after 30 days it is no longer free. One I tried had a lot of features that might have been useful but every time you resized a photo you had to agree that this was being used by a private individual and not for commercial use. I could never figure out how to get my pics back from the resizer. So dumped all of their programs!
I went back to the net and read some and figured out in Windows 10 you can actually resize in paint and it is easy. There are some other edit features in paint, that may or may not be what you want!! I get my photos resized and I don't have somebody in my PC I don't want there!!
Oh and one other thing if you resize in paint click on the pixels to resize and keep the ratio. When you reduce the top number to 800 by keeping the ration it automatically resizes the pic to 800 X 600 and the forum will accept that!