resizing pictures into kbs

[Irish 009]

I want to resizize a picture I have to 128kbs and I dont know how to do this.
My picture is in inches and I have never heard of KBs. Can you please walk
me through how to do make the change over as I am a beginner in computers.
Thank You. A very Senior Valerie Poole.

 

[John Inzer]

I want to resizize a picture I have to 128kbs and I dont know how to
do this. My picture is in inches and I have never heard of KBs. Can
you please walk me through how to do make the change over as I am a
beginner in computers. Thank You. A very Senior Valerie Poole.

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KB = "Short for kilobyte. When used to decribe
data storage, KB usually represents 1,024
bytes. When used to describe data transfer
rates, KB represents 1,000 bytes. "
IOW...memory size.

Try downloading and installing the following free
WinXP PowerToy...

ImageResizer.exe
http://tinyurl.com/36n

Then you can open any folder that contains
images and you will have an option to resize.
Just right click the selected image files and
choose Resize Pictures from the menu. You
can select one image or a whole group.

The program will place the resized copies in
the folder with your originals.
(Tip: *Never* overwrite your originals)

If you right click the image and choose Properties
....the Memory Size is on the General tab.

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[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Although resizing (physical dimensions) of an image may result in a smaller
file size 128KB is the file size, typically if you need a smaller file size
(but not necessarily change the dimensions); you will optimize or compress
it.

You can resize or optimize with a free program called IrFanview or just
about any image editor.

hth


|I want to resizize a picture I have to 128kbs and I dont know how to do
this.
| My picture is in inches and I have never heard of KBs. Can you please walk
| me through how to do make the change over as I am a beginner in computers.
| Thank You. A very Senior Valerie Poole.

 

[Mike Williams]

I want to resizize a picture I have to 128kbs and I dont know
how to do this. My picture is in inches and I have never heard
of KBs. Can you please walk me through how to do make the
change over as I am a beginner in computers.

As others have already said, KB is an abbreviation for Kilobytes. A Kilobyte
is 1024 bytes, and it is a measure of how much memory (or how much disk
space) a picture will use. Resizing an image so that it takes up less memory
can be done in number of different ways (reduce the pixel count or increase
the compression ratio or a combination of both) but you really should not do
that unless you have a very specific reason for requiring a smaller file
size, because it will result in a loss of image quality. Why do you want a
smaller file size by the way?

There are all sorts of applications (some free and some not) that are
capable of resizing images for you so that they are a smaller file size,
some of which have been mentioned by others but if you are as "new" as you
appear to be then downloading and using one of them might be a little
difficult for you. Are you using WndowsXP by the way? If you are then you
can simply go to the folder that contains your picture and right click the
picture file and select "Send To" followed by "Mail Recipient". Windows will
then ask you if you want to reduce the size of the image. Click the "make
all my pictures smaller" option and then click OK. Then when the email
message pops up (which will already contain your image as an attachment)
just type your own email address into the address box and click the
"Send"button. Then go to your normal email program and you'll find a new
incoming message which contains your picture as an attachment, at its new
smaller file size.

Thank You. A very Senior Valerie Poole.

Maureen (a probably equally senior person!)