Sending Digital Pictures via Internet Cafe

[Castlerock]

I was overseas last week and I needed to send several digital pictures via email. The pictures straight out of my camera are 8MB each.

If I was at home, I would use Picassa or PaintShopPro to shrink the jpg to a managable size before sending via email. But I wasn't at home, I was at an internet cafe. What could I have done to manage the size of the files?

[MIJB#19]

bump to help out a fellow FOFCer. I have no clue myself, but we should have plenty of experts in this stuff around, no?

[Antmeister]

Well I would download a portable application such as Portable Gimp (http://portableapps.com/apps/photos_design/image_editors/portable_gimp) onto one of those keychain storage devices. That way, you can open it up on any computer and edit your pictures to your heart's content.

If you don't want to go that route, didn't the computer have it's own editing application such as Paint? If so, you could have resized it there and saved it as a .jpg.

[johnnyshaka]

I would decrease the resolution on your camera especially if you are planning on sending the pictures via email.

[stevew]

I would decrease the resolution on your camera especially if you are planning on sending the pictures via email.

Yeah, but I think he also wants the pictures for home at some point, so once you turn the resolution down, you cut yourself short. Antmeister's idea is a good one.

[Castlerock]

Well I would download a portable application such as Portable Gimp (http://portableapps.com/apps/photos_design/image_editors/portable_gimp) onto one of those keychain storage devices. That way, you can open it up on any computer and edit your pictures to your heart's content.

If you don't want to go that route, didn't the computer have it's own editing application such as Paint? If so, you could have resized it there and saved it as a .jpg.
Hmm. It did have Paint. I didn't know Paint could resize and/or compress an image. I'll look into that before for the next trip. Also, thanks for the Portable Gimp suggestion... I'll check that out if Paint can't do what I want.

stevew, you are correct, I don't want to reduce the resolution in the camera because I want the full size picture. I just want a smaller version for that one time.

[Antmeister]

Hmm. It did have Paint. I didn't know Paint could resize and/or compress an image. I'll look into that before for the next trip. Also, thanks for the Portable Gimp suggestion... I'll check that out if Paint can't do what I want.

stevew, you are correct, I don't want to reduce the resolution in the camera because I want the full size picture. I just want a smaller version for that one time.

Yeah, you can do it in Paint, but they don't make it obvious how you resize it. Follow these steps:

1. Open Paint
2. Open up the photo in Paint
3. On the menu bar, go to Image/Stretch-Skew or if you like shortcut keys just hit Ctrl-W.
4. In the Stretch portion, enter the same percentage for horizonatal and vertical, then click OK.
5. Save the new jpeg.