Resizing photos

With modern digital cameras, pictures are getting very large, and uploading them to a site is slower; viewing them is a bit slower too. Therefore it is a good idea to resize them prior to uploading them anywhere.

Note that if you resize it to something smaller, you won't be able to revert to something bigger without losing quality. Therefore you should resize copies, preserving the larger original for other cases.

Resizing them to 1024x768 will be good enough; if they are already smaller, leave the size unchanged.

Resizing photos on a Mac

Refer to this tutorial: http://mac-tech-switching.blogspot.com/2006/10/using-iphoto-to-resize-photos.html

Resizing photos on Windows

The easiest way to do that is using IrfanView, it enables you to process multiple images at once and it provides various options that will cover one's needs.

• Download IrfanView from this address: http://www.irfanview.com/
• Install it
  • Note, if you want to use this program just for resizing, and nothing else, choose to not associate the program with any file types
• After it is installed on the system, refer to this tutorial: http://www.lancelotgroup.com/tutorials/HowToResize-IrFanView-Start.asp
  • At step #6, you will have to indicate some, values, here are the recommended ones:
    • a width of 1024 OR
    • a height of 768