resizing photos

[suzyq]

I just got a new laptop. My old system had Microsoft photo editor which
allowed me to resize photos while still maintaining the pixellation. The new
system does now. Resizing shrinks the photos too small and when people
receive the emails, they can't see the pictures. If they increase the size,
the picture blurs. I tried downloading editor but it has some
error..help.....is there a way to reduce the size of a picture withour losing
the picture quality.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Define/explain "tried downloading editor but it has some error"

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I just got a new laptop. My old system had Microsoft photo editor which
allowed me to resize photos while still maintaining the pixellation. The new
system does now. Resizing shrinks the photos too small and when people
receive the emails, they can't see the pictures. If they increase the size,
the picture blurs. I tried downloading editor but it has some
error..help.....is there a way to reduce the size of a picture withour losing
the picture quality.

IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com) is free for noncommercial use and can batch
downsample (ie resize) images quickly and efficiently.

 

[Mary Sauer]

You can install the Photo Editor
MS Photo Editor, Wherefore Art Thou?
by Herb Tyson, MVP and author of Word 2007 Bible
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=298

 

[Bob I]

What version of Office did you install now?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

You can install the Photo Editor
MS Photo Editor, Wherefore Art Thou?
by Herb Tyson, MVP and author of Word 2007 Bible
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=298

Ahhhhh. THANKS!

And if Herb ever wants to have a baby ....

... nah, it would never work out.


And that led to another interesting find. I found the folder where
Photo Editor's installed, by default C:\Program Files\Common
Files\Microsoft Shared\PhotoEd.

I copied the whole folder off to a PC with only Office 2003 installed
and was able to fire up and use PhotoEd.EXE ... not extensively,
tested, but it seems happy.

Apparently the folder contains all the bits that PhotoEd needs to
survive.

While "installing" it this way won't create the file associations etc.
that Herb's method does, it seems it'll work nicely for me. AAMOF, the
last thing I'd WANT is the file associations.

 

[Mary Sauer]

When I find a program I like, I'll try anything to get it to work on newer
computers. I have an old, old copy of Harvard Graphics that I am still using for
charts. It works okay on Vista. I have the original Visio Home that is on
floppies I still use when the kids visit. Publisher 95 does well on this
computer.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

When I find a program I like, I'll try anything to get it to work on newer
computers. I have an old, old copy of Harvard Graphics that I am still using for
charts. It works okay on Vista. I have the original Visio Home that is on
floppies I still use when the kids visit. Publisher 95 does well on this
computer.

Stop wiggling, you're rocking the same boat that we're in. ;-)

I still use a super PIM/outliner app that probably hasn't been updated since it was
rewritten for 32-bit Windows after Win95 was released.

PhotoEdit is only useful to me for one function, but I don't know of any other app
that performs that function; other than that, I've no use for the silly thing at
all. But when you need that one function .... <g>

 

[Bob I]

Stop wiggling, you're rocking the same boat that we're in. ;-)

I still use a super PIM/outliner app that probably hasn't been updated since it was
rewritten for 32-bit Windows after Win95 was released.

PhotoEdit is only useful to me for one function, but I don't know of any other app
that performs that function; other than that, I've no use for the silly thing at
all. But when you need that one function .... <g>

Ok, I'll bite. That "One function" is?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Ok, I'll bite. That "One function" is?

Let's say you have a 2048-pixel wide image in PPT that takes up a small part of the
screen on the PPT slide. You want to edit, downsample or otherwise work with the image
and need a file in order to do so.

If you copy/paste the image into pretty much any application, you don't get the original
image, you get PPT's rendition of it, at whatever size it's currently displayed. Taht
is, if your image takes up 400 pixels on screen in PPT, you're going to paste a 400
pixel image into your image editing app, not the original 2048-pix pic.

BUT, if you copy/paste into PhotoEdit, you get the full original image, which you can
then save to file.

Not something you need every day but when you do need it, there's no better way to get
it. ;-)

 

[Bob I]

Let's say you have a 2048-pixel wide image in PPT that takes up a small part of the
screen on the PPT slide. You want to edit, downsample or otherwise work with the image
and need a file in order to do so.

If you copy/paste the image into pretty much any application, you don't get the original
image, you get PPT's rendition of it, at whatever size it's currently displayed. Taht
is, if your image takes up 400 pixels on screen in PPT, you're going to paste a 400
pixel image into your image editing app, not the original 2048-pix pic.

BUT, if you copy/paste into PhotoEdit, you get the full original image, which you can
then save to file.

Not something you need every day but when you do need it, there's no better way to get
it. ;-)

Interesting! Thanks for that bit of technical insight!