How do you shrink pics .

[Pilgrim's Progeny]

I have no idea how to decrease the size of a pic from like 500k to 19k in order to use as Avatar or just post in a thread. How is this done? Is there freeware available for this task?

 

[Davidius]

There is open source (free) software called GIMP which has this and other features. You can find it here.

 

[Pilgrim's Progeny]

There is open source (free) software called GIMP which has this and other features. You can find it here.

Thank You!

 

[Davidius]

Thank You!

 

[MrMerlin777]

GIMP...

Interesting name. There's some humour in it.

 

[SRoper]

MS Paint has a rather crude scaling tool. I use the GIMP as well.

 

[mgeoffriau]

GIMP is powerful but can be a little clunky. If you want something more basic (and faster), try Irfanview. It's an excellent quick loading image viewer/editor.

 

[Megaloo]

I use Irfanview...works well.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

Now this is a great online site:

http://www.shrinkpictures.com/

It even has an avatar creation utility:

http://www.shrinkpictures.com/create-avatar/

Welcome to Shrink Pictures. As an admin of a large Forum, we have a lot of users who have almost no grapics skills or knowledge. This website was created out of frustration of users asking questions like How do I resize images? How do I make images smaller? and How do I shrink this picture for an avatar?. So, we created the Shrink Pictures tools that are no more difficult than posting in a Forum and now anyone can Resize Images and Digital Pictures.

 

[Answerman]

How some follow-up questions as to where do you put the avitar once it's created? Do you have to find a site to host your picture? Can you use a blog hosting site like blogspot?

 

[Semper Fidelis]

Are you trying to make a Custom Avatar for yourself on the Puritan Board?

If so then it allows you to upload a custom Avatar in your profile. That's how I have my cutie pies as my avatar.

 

[Answerman]

I see how to do it now, thank you.