It is important to resize pictures (or compress), images and photographs before they are published to a webpage or circulated in an e-mail or an electronic newsletter.
Resizing or compressing images will ensure that the items will display on-screen in a quick manner. Items that are not resized correctly can cause the slow loading of web pages and they take up a lot of valuable space on our web server. Sending large photos via e-mail can cause a mailbox to fill up quickly which means the user (receiver or sender) may not be able to send or receive additional mail. If you send an e-mail to multiple addresses the system makes multiple copies of your large data picture. For example, if you send a large picture to ten people, the system makes a copy for each e-mail account. This can cause a mail server to slow down or possibly crash.
Most all Henderson computers are equipped with Microsoft Picture Manager (It is part of the Microsoft Office 2007 suite of products). Microsoft Picture Manager provides a quick and easy way to resize (compress) images, pictures and photographs.
Note: These directions are for XP. Vista directions will be posted at a later date.
Click on the START button, Select ALL PROGRAMS, then MICROSOFT OFFICE, then, MICROSOFT TOOLS, then MICROSOFT PICTURE MANAGER.
You will need to locate your picture. If you do not see the location of your picture in the Picture Shortcuts pane on the left side of the screen you will need to click on Add Picture Shortcut and find your item – you can maneuver to your desktop or a flash drive or other locations from here.
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Once you have the shortcut location determined and selected, you should be able to see all the pictures, images or photos in the selected file.
Click on the item so that it will display in full view in the center pane.
Go to the tool bar and click on PICTURE and then COMPRESS PICTURES
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The COMPRESS PICTURES dialog box should appear on the right side of your computer.
Click the radio button next to WEB PAGES and then click the OK button. Notice the ESTIMATED TOTAL SIZE information next to the OK button. This tells you the original size of the picture as well as the new compressed size. In this case we have reduced a 452 KB picture down to 64.2 KB.
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Next, just as you would save any other Microsoft document, you will need to save the newly compressed/resized image. From the FILE menu, click SAVE AS. The SAVE AS dialog box will open. Select the location of where you want to save the newly compressed image (Desktop? Documents? Flash drive?). Give the image a NEW FILE NAME. Doing so will preserve the data size of the original image for future use.
Your new image should now be "Reddie" for use on a website or to send via e-mail.
Microsoft Photo Manager also has other editing features. You can color correct your images, change file types, crop and even reduce red-eye. This application is simple and easy to use.
To obtain self-help with this application, press the F1 button while you have Microsoft Photo Manager open, select a topic link or type your question in the help box.
Questions? Need Training?
Contact the trainer:
George Finkle
230-5513
finkleg@hsu.edu
This page updated: June, 2008
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