How do I reduce the MB size of my pictures so they upload? Mac & PC Help Inside!

jerry9665 · 01-20-2009

I wanted to post some picture but found out my files were larger than 1MB. I played around a little bit and shrunk a couple down. I'm not very good with photos so any help is appreciated.
thanks

05horse · 01-20-2009

open in paint.
go to imige ( at the top )
sketch skew
where the horz and verts are set at 100% change them to like 80%

save it.
see if it works
if not
do it over

usually i just go from 100% to 50% right off the bat and its a good size and uploads to most servers

Brutal Metal · 01-20-2009

If you want good Free picture editing software go to Irfanview.com and download their stuff. It's easy and you can type in the number of pixels you want.

**JudisStang** · 01-20-2009

Thanks guys for helping!!! If you still need help, feel free to let me know, you can always email me images and I can reduce them for you...

jerry9665 · 01-20-2009

Thank you all for the help. I'll give it a shot and see what I can do.

sylus · 08-30-2009

Hi all

trying to sell two mustangs a 289 1968 and a 390 1967 finally found the classifieds(I was looking for a sale section..doh) and typed it all in pressed upload and it went for a while and stopped and gave no info.

I am guessing it's because my pics were to big but i've just bought a mac and am still learning

so any advice on how to resize pics on a mac to get them the right size for classifeds would be greatly appreciated. Cheers

**JudisStang** · 08-30-2009

Hi!

A little trick on Macs... email them to yourself and click on the "Actual Size" bar - and change to "small" or "medium"... once you receive the new email... download those pics to a folder on your desktop and use those... that's with very basic software... see pic below...

I happen to have photoshop on 1 mac and free "paintbrush" on another... I don't think the program preview lets you resize images, although you can crop..... but I could be wrong!

If you need help - I'll be happy to resize them for you - email me!

**JudisStang** · 09-01-2009

OK, figured it out this AM in the program on the Mac called "Preview" doing something for a friend... Open your photo in preview... click on "Save As" and click ".jpg" - you'll see a slider bar to make the image quality worst/med/best... slide it to medium... and save - you should be ready to rock n roll...

**tripleblack** · 09-01-2009

You got it, lady. Sometimes mac functions are so subtle and simple, we don't even notice them when we flash by them a thousand times.

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Originally Posted by JudisStang

OK, figured it out this AM in the program on the Mac called "Preview" doing something for a friend... Open your photo in preview... click on "Save As" and click ".jpg" - you'll see a slider bar to make the image quality worst/med/best... slide it to medium... and save - you should be ready to rock n roll...