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resize pictures...?

i thought it was [img= no. of pixels]blah blah blah[/img] but this doesnt seem to work.
I have been trying to resize my sig pic in vain

think u need to do it in pshop and resize the actual pic rather than do it like that with the img code

keel tell us how large you'd like it and i'll throw up (ok, ok, "put on a page") one at the size you'd like, ready for copying and pasting of the address, or saving to your hard disc for re-hosting.

resizing stuff with IMG tags is, like, so 1994*...

A couple examples of a cropped and shrunken pic of that beautiful mean beast....
first one is smaller and more in line with the regs, but its hard to read the numberplate


slightly larger but drifting (further) outside of the 300x100 limitation, and with a little extra processing to make the numberplate text less smushy


mmmmkay?
or of course, make yer own. image editors are ten a cookie on the freeware sites.

(*ok actually, it would have been IMG SRC tags... with the very first copy of Mosaic)

that'll do nicely thanks

got no chance of posting me car pics then (their 1600 by 1200) without loads of work.

Thanks anyway dudes

Not really loads of work mate. Have a look at www.gimp.org (SFW, honest!) where you can download version 2 of the ever-popular GIMP graphics package.

If you go here, you can download the most recent (stable) version of GIMP. You will need both the "GTK + 2 runtime environment" download, and of course, "The GIMP for Windows".

All you do is install the runtime environment, then the GIMP installation file, and Robert is very much your Mother's brother!

HTH

sorry for writing gimp lots lol can't help it

WHO THE HELL IS ROBERT!?!?

anyway thanks i might give that a go

Should be able to get a shareware version of ACDSee or something like that knocking about if all you want to do is take a batch of pictures and rinse them down to something more web-palatable, like 640x480..... make a new empty folder, load the prog, point it at your source pics, set up the resize option, and away you go.
Doing that sig wasn't exactly a lot of work otherwise I wouldn't have bothered much (the only tricky bit was the numberplate, and i doubt you'll have so many fine details you'll want preserving on a still quite large webpage sized pic?)

If you can't be bothered with gimp etc and all you want to do is resize some photos, MS Paint is.. just about adequate Not much control over anything, but it'll get the job done at least.

nooooooooooooo

sorry carrot, but it doesnt do smooth scaling - therefore the pictures will look all jagged and naff

Yep, that's why it's just about adequate rather than actually being any good Point is, gimp is a big old download and takes a fair bit of practice to learn to use it, so if you don't mind some iffy iq, paint's a lot easier.
Personally I just use photoshop 7 though

Hmm, well there's Serif Photoplus 5 - though I don't know how large it is. Their reccommended free hard disc space for the larger CDROM version is only 20mb though, so maybe about 5mb? (still too big for that purpose really)

here's a download link

MS Office comes with a photo editor program...

Or for a more appropriate, realistic choice, after a little hunting - the more oldskool IrfanView. Only 851kb, supposedly a 2minute wait on 56k. Only problem is that Download.com is treacle slow, i'm getting about a 2-3kb/sec average. On 750k broadband. And it keeps stalling. I'll tell you if its any good as soon as it's loaded..
Linky

edit: Yep, does the job. Bit of a wait, a rather "hard" interface (tip: to crop, just lasso an area on the pic without pressing any buttons, then look in the Edit menu... and resize is "resample" in Image menu), and not many extra features (don't even think it has a text function), but worth it for a small, free photosmusher.