Here You Go:
Trapperjohn:
Go to the link below, which is for a free photo viewer and editor called IrfanView. Once you have downloaded and installed it, go to the File menu and select Open to open your picture; you navigate to the picture file the same way you go through your folders to get to any kind of file.
Once the picture is open, go to the Image menu and select Resize/Resample. A window will open up. In that window, you will see a check circle labelled "Set new size as percentage of original." Click on the circle, and then look at the two boxes below the label I just mentioned. Both of them will say "100%"; one is for the width of the picture, and one is for the height.
Click inside the Width box, and enter a new value, like 50%. You will see that the Height box will change to the same value automatically. What this will do is to reduce the size of the photo to half of what it was originally. If you wanted to take it to one-quarter its original size, you would enter "25%", and so on. Once you have entered the size value you want, click on the "OK" button at the bottom of that window. It will close.
Now go to the File menu again, and select Save; this saves the photo at the new size.
One tip; it's always a good idea to make a copy of a photo, using the Save As selection of the File menu, and do your re-sizing on that copy. That way, you will never do anything irreversible to a photo you cannot replace.
To upload a resized photo here, enter whatever message you want to in the Message window on this page the way you always do. Then scroll down a little bit, and you will see a field labelled, "Upload JPEG Format Picture to share in message:" At the end of that field is a button marked "Browse.." Click it. Your folders will appear in a window, and you can navigate through them to find the picture you want to upload. When you've found it, click on it. Its filename will then appear in the field labelled, "Upload JPEG Format Picture to share in message:"
Now click on the button marked "Preview Message" at the bottom of the page the same way you do for any message. Your message, with picture, should come up, just like previewing any written message does. Then you click on the button labelled "POST this to Discuss-O-Mat," the way you always do to post a message.
This is all actually very easy; you'll have the hang of it in no time.
IrfanView ... one of the most popular viewers worldwide.
www.irfanview.com
