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@lenorascholl, you asked about downsizing images when you posted your submissions for the latest assignment:
Here are my photos for the American Patriotism assignment. I do not know how to create low res thumbnail pictures yet, so I will have to submit this in two parts. (Please help when you get a chance.)
I know you’re not the only one who might have questions on this subject, so I’ve created this topic so we can discuss how to do that!
Hi, @lenorascholl, welcome to the forums! I’ll be happy to help you with resizing and creating lower resolution thumbnails for posting online. First we need to know what kind of computer you’re using, cause Windows and Mac computers use different software to accomplish that task. Do you know which one you have?
As a general rule, the quickest way (with a Windows computer) to resize photos for the web is FastImageResizer. Just drag and drop your photos over the little FastImageResizer window and it will automatically resize them for you.
If you have an Apple computer, here’s a thread which should be helpful: How To Resize Pictures on a Mac?
If you’re on a Windows computer, here are a couple of links with lots more helpful info: Resize and Compression Tools for Photographers and a video: How To Downsize an Image with Paint (Windows)If all this sounds too complicated for you, don’t worry, I can walk you through each step. 🙂 Just let me know if you need more help.
Thank you Lydia and Ezra for your help! The video showed me exactly how to make a thumbnail of my photo. I’ve attached my first thumbnail photo — a picture of my friend’s cat. 🙂
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You’re very welcome, @lenorascholl! Glad you got it figured out. 🙂
My computer runs Linux. Do you know of any resources that can help me with photo resizing? I hope to participate in this month’s assignment, but it’s my first time doing so. I’m completely new to uploading and downloading pictures.
@allforhim007 What software are you currently using? Image Viewer and Shotwell do not have an option to resize photos, but there are several programs available for Linux, including RawTherapee, Darktable and GIMP that are well-known and powerful tools capable of a lot! For example, if you open the image in GIMP you click Image, Scale Image… and the tell it what dimesions you want. Don’t forget to export when you are done, so as not to overwrite your original image.
Probably the “simplest” way in Linux is to right-click in the folder where the picture is found, open a terminal and:
convert -resize 1000 DSC_1005.jpg resized.jpgwhere “convert -resize” is the command, “1000” is the width of the new image in pixels, DSC_1005.jpg is the file you want to resize and resized.jpg is the new image that has been resized.
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