Cropping it doesn't help. When I click on the picture, it opens and takes up my whole screen. I need it smaller. Help!!
How can I change the file size of a picure?
well my dear, you haven't told nor ask how do you want your picture to be but by simply asking of %26quot;file size of your picture%26quot;. if you want to make your pix to be portable or let say be small in file size but not affecting the printing size, you may try to reduce its resolution. using adobe photo can do the work. or you can use winzip to compress your file. if you want to make your pix smaller in print and file size, well, just crop it as you say.
How can I change the file size of a picure?
use irfan view...
you can crop, chop or do anything you want with it...
its free :)
winzip
by crop and resizing..
try photo shop..
or edit by paint...
I think you are confusing yourself more.
Any picture you view with 'Preview' on a PC will automatically expand it to fill the screen. If you continue to crop and reduce it, the picture will simply become more 'blocky'.
What do you need the reduced picture for, could you add that using %26quot;Additional details%26quot;, please? Then we may be able to direct you better.
You could use Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop to see the actual size of the picture by selecting the 1:1 or the 100% size option.
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Depending on what program you are using, try saving the file using a different file type.
RAW image files or BMP files tend to take up a lot of space as they retain as much of the original image as possible.You may be better off using JPG (or JPEG) if it is a photograph or GIF if it is a coloured image like a cartoon or something made for a presentation. These file types looks for repeating patterns within a picture and save the patterns, the locations of the patterns and some colour data (that's really simplified) and the result is that the file is much smaller.
For example, say you wanted to describe a set of 16 tiles on a wall. They are arranged in a 4x4 grid pattern.
You could write them down like this...
[White Tile] [Black Tile] [White Tile] [Orange Tile]
[Black Tile] [White Tile] [Orange Tile] [White Tile]
[White Tile] [Orange Tile] [White Tile] [Black Tile]
[Orange Tile] [White Tile] [Black Tile] [White Tile]
or you could simplify it by writing this...
[L-R,T-B]
[White Tile-1,3,6,8,9,11,14,16]
[Black Tile-2,5,12,15]
[Orange Tile-4,7,10,13]
where the numbers indicate the position of a coloured tile within the grid and the instructions are given as Left-Right and then Top-Bottom.
And if you are uploading it to the internet or sending it via email, you have to allow for all the extra data that goes along with your file. Let me explain a bit better...
When you send a file via the internet, the computer breaks up the file into smaller packets with additional information to make sure that the information that is received is accurate and that it is to be placed in the correct location within the file.
Imagine if you sent a 100-piece jigsaw through the post, one piece at a time and you could not send the picture of the finished puzzle. You could write something on the packet containing each piece, such as [#1, L-R, T-B], then [#2, L-R, T-B] as well as the destination address and your sending address. Undelivered packets would then find their way back to you to
This would indicate that the puzzle piece marked #1 should be followed in the following pattern, L-R (left to right) and then T-B (top to bottom) until the puzzle is complete.
It doesn't matter in what order the pieces are received, it may take a week for them all to arrive and some may even go missing and be returned to you to resend. The important thing is that when all of the pieces are at the destination, they can be arranged back into the original picture just by the information you included on the packet. So, as well as having the puzzle piece, you have to have all of the additional information as indicated above and that takes up more room.
So a 1Mb file may grow to 1.1Mb or 1.5Mb when it goes via email or the internet.
