Modern digital cameras can take very high-quality photographs. Normally the highest setting is set out of the box, which means the photos you take with it are very large. Not only is the photo physically large; the file size of these images on digital storage is very large, too.
We recommend photos are resized once saving them to your computer. This guide will show you how to use the Image Resizer tool installed on your computer. While the physical size of the photo is reduced (within acceptable limits), the file size is reduced significantly without losing quality. This will allow you to attach more photos to an email and copy them to network locations quicker.
How-To
After copying the photos to your computer, open the folder they are in and select the ones you want to resize (e.g. all of them or individually by holding CTRL)
To resize your pictures and have the new ones put in the same folder as the original, right-click on any of the selected files and choose Resize pictures.
After doing so, the following dialogue box will appear.
Pick one of the default sizes, or enter your own by selecting custom and entering the width and height values you would like your resized pictures to have.
If Only shrink pictures is selected, any of your pictures that are smaller than the selected size will not be resized.
You can also choose to Replace the originals, in which case the resized pictures will be saved over the originals. If this option is enabled, the originals go in the Recycle Bin (if they were saved on your computer – if they’re still on a memory card or other drive they will be deleted)
To a different folder
To resize your pictures and have the new ones put in a specific folder, right-click and hold on them and drag them into the destination folder. Choose Resize pictures here on the menu that comes up when you let go of the right mouse button.