How do I?

[Andy Murray]

How do you size/trim/crop/whatever photographs to a suitable size for use as an Avatar?

I haven't got any special programs, just what came with Windows 98. 'Paint' and stuff like that.

How do you check on the size of a photograph or scan before submitting to the photo gallery?

[surgingshark]

Using Paint:

I wouldn't know, man. However, you can download really small (and free) programs on http://www.webattack.com/ for that stuff ;)

Checking it:

Open it using MSIE, right click, and click "properties". That should give you the info you need.

[WhiteWizard]

to check the size of the photo go to where it is and right click and go into properties it will tell you size and dimensions there

[Greyghost]

or send it to whitewizard or myself and we'll do it for you.

[hongkongfuey]

or send it to whitewizard or myself and we'll do it for you.


Does that apply to all 4000 members of MAP? You guys are soooo nice. :D

I'll post your contact details on the home page shortly.

[Greyghost]

nnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo................... .......

damn you HKF..........:)

[Cain]

Get infranview, link given in must have programs thread (http://www.martialartsplanet.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6647&highlight=must+have+programs)

Open said image in infranview press ctrl+r then you can set any size, half double also quality and wether you want to retain the height width ratio.

|Cain|

[Andy Murray]

Cheer's Cain, that's just the ticket! :D

[hongkongfuey]

Get infranview


Yoda pointed me in the direction of this software previously, and its really good. It is also got a 'red eye elimination' feature which is really useful for my devil boy. :eek:

If you are after a more comprehensive editing / touch up package (for free) then you can also give 'The Gimp' a try. http://www.gimp.org/

[Andy Murray]

Andy wonders how HKF happened across such software. :p

[Cain]

Glad to help Andy, nice avatar :D

|Cain|

[WhiteWizard]

the gimp arrrrgggghhhh flash backs to graphics and multimedia 3 the worst course ever arrrrrggggggghhhhhhh stupid unix tools