Step By Step Using Paint To Resize Photo File

Our objective in these tips are to provide users a step by step instruction on how to resize their photo files to a smaller size files. Small file size will give you faster upload and also faster photo display at the search result, in other words, full customer satisfaction. For this, we will be using Paint, as it’s widely available and is already a built in photo editing software in Windows.

Let’s start. Follow through the simple steps below:

1)  Start the Paint application.

2)  In the File Menu, select Open to find and open the photo file that you want to resize.

3)  To check on the attribute (file information) on the photo file, you can either:

a.    Go to Image menu, and then select Attributes.

b.    Or press Ctrl + E.

4)  From example below, the Width and Height of the file are 2048 X 1536 pixels respectively. To get the best picture result on Luk4all website, the desired width and height are 150 X 112 pixels. Note:

a.    All digital photos are in 4:3 ratios (4 and 3 refer to the width and height respectively).

b.    Re-sizing the file to smaller size, will directly shrink the file size as well.

5)  From Image menu, select Stretch/Skew (or Ctrl + W)

6)  Change the Horizontal and Vertical stretch value to 10% from 100%.

7)  As you can see, the photo has been re-sized significantly.

8)  To save, select File menu and then Save.

9)  To check on the file height/width and size, repeat Step 3. For this example, the file size has been reduced to ~11Kb (see below). Note: Even though Width and Height is not 150 X 112 pixels, the photo display will still be perfect, as long as the photo is maintained at 4:3 ratios.

That is it. Very simple, is it not? Well, good luck.

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