How to resize pictures-How to make photos smaller to Upload to the internet

Welcome to the on-his-mind Guide on how to resize pictures to make them smaller.Often you may want to make a picture smaller in size so you can upload pictures to the internet faster and save on bandwidth.Often uploading a picture which is 2meg takes long and when uploading a whole album it takes ages!To save both bandwidth and time you can resize your pictures so that when uploading them to facebook and other sites it wont take long and viewing the pictures online will be much quicker.


How to resize pictures
1.Download a tool called Image Resizer Powertoy by clicking here. this file is only 0.5mb and wont take long to download.If the link above does not work please look at the bottom of this article on other places to download it.

2.Once you have downloaded the tool double click on it.A instillation will appear,follow the on screen instructions and once the tool is successfully installed go to step 3.

3.Find the picture you would like to resize and right click on it.A box will appear,In this box click"resize pictures"

4.A new window will appear that will say"You can create resized copies of one or more selected pictures and store them in the current folder."select what size you would like the picture to be.If you are unsure of which size you should use I recommend using medium. You can also manually select the size by clicking on the "advanced" button and a custom size will appear bellow"handheld PC"

5.Once you have chosen your size click ok and you will notice a new picture will appeared in the same folder the picture you wanted to resize was in.The resized picture will say Medium if you did the medium resize and so on and so forth.

6.You have now successfully resized a picture! You can resize multiple pictures at once by simply selecting all the pictures you want to resize and then doing exactly the same steps mentioned above.

Here is an example of how much smaller the picture becomes after using this tool.
On the left is the picture that has not been resized and on the right the one that has!



Other download links for Image Resizer Powertoy
ftp://ftp.freechess.org/pub/chess/WinXP/XP Power Toys/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe
ftp://ftp.ku.lt/pub/Windows/systems/XP/PowerToys/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe
ftp://ftp.jaring.my/pub/microsoft/powertoys/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe
ftp://ftp.qut.edu.au/pub/mirrors/microsoft/powertoys/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

Picasa web album-Free Online photo sharing and hosting

A Picasa web album is free online photo storage and sharing site that is run by Google.

Picasa web album is just like flickr,you can backup your pictures online and share them with the world. You get up to 1024 MB free photo and image space on the Google owned site, once you reach the limit you will not be able to upload any more pictures but you can buy more photo space at a very cheap price.

Picasa web album has one of the cheapest paid for photo sharing services on the internet today. Here are the standard prices:
10 GB ($20.00 USD per year)
40 GB ($75.00 USD per year)
150 GB ($250.00 USD per year)
400 GB ($500.00 USD per year)


If you have a Google account you do not have to go through all the trouble of having to register and verify mail, instead all you do is insert your user name and password and you in. Picasa also provides a service that the other online photo sharing sites don’t, a photo editing and uploading tool for your pc or Mac all for free. This program is called Picasa and Google recently released version 3.

Picasa web alum is my preferred photo sharing site with hundreds of my pictures shard and backed up on the service. All the pictures on this blog are also hosted on the picasa web albums site. To go directly to Picasa web albums please click here.

Webshots-Free online picture hosting

Webshots is a free online picture and image hosting service. It is one of the biggest picture and image hosting sites on the internet today with over 7.2 Million monthly visitors and more than 520 million photos on the site.

Webshots has both a photo and a video category with both free and premium(paid)accounts that have a huge online storage space for you to upload as many images as you want. Webshots was one of the first successful photo sharing sites, starting in early 1996 as a wallpaper and screensaver site but latter changed into the sharing site it is today.

As mentioned above you get both the free and paid for account, these accounts are very different. Here is a list of what you get with both the paid for and free account.

Free
•Store and share 1,000 personal photos + 100 more for each month of membership.
•Upload and share up to 5-minute videos.
•Stats on three of your albums.

Premium
•Store and share 5,000 personal photos + 500 more for each month of membership.
•Upload and share up to 10-minute videos.
•No distracting ads.
•Stats on all your albums.
•Unlimited photo downloads, including Pro Shots.

To find out more about webshots or to join this brilliant service please click here.

SmugMug-Professional safe,sharing and hosting for your images and photos online

Smugmug is a site where users can upload and share their personal pictures online. this site is a paid for service and is arguably the most professional photo sharing site on the internet today. This amazing photo sharing site has no adverts on the site it also does not send spam to their users, but the best thing of all about smugmug is that it so stunning and professional.

Although you do have to pay for this amazing service you do get unlimited safe storage for all your images and photos ,Smugmug says that they have the most secure systems to keep your photos safe and almost guarantee that not one of your photos will go missing.

Smugmug has 45 employees with over 300,000 paying customers with more than 504,004,737 photos in their data base and counting.


Smugmug offers other services besides photo hosting and sharing,smugmug also offer professional quality printing as well as the option to get your photos put on t-shirts,mugs,mouse pads, puzzles and lots more.

If you are looking for a professional online photo sharing site where your photos are guaranteed to be safe then this site is the one you need to join and start using.


To go directly to smugmug please click here.

smilebox-Image hosting,Scrapbooking, Free Ecards, Birthday and Greeting Cards all in 1

Smilebox is a photo sharing site that is very different to other sites like flickr and Picasa. Smilebox is a photo hosting site that allows you to quickly and efficiently turn your photos into awesome creations to share with your friends, family or even yourself.

The main point of Smilebox is for you to upload photos and videos and then use the content you uploaded to make very professional animated scrapbooks, photo albums, post cards, slide shows and greeting cards. You do this by easily choosing a readymade template from their huge data base, you then drag and drop your photos and videos into your desired place and you can edit and customize the templates and photos. You can also add your own desired music and text to your creation.

Once you have created and saved your creation you can email it to anyone to view or you can add it to facebook,MySpace and even blog it and print it. Smilebox is a free service but you can also get a monthly paid for service which gives you access to even more editing tools and templates.


To go straight to the Smilebox website please click here

Flickr-Photo Sharing and social networking all in one!

Flickr is an online photo/image hosting and sharing site combined with social networking features like commenting on other peoples work as well as “favorite” their work and give it a rating. Flickr is the world’s most popular photo-sharing site with images being added every second of every day.

In February 2004 flickr was launched by Ludicorp which was a company based in Vancouver,Canada.Aglthough the site is mainly for personal photos and is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. At the end of the year 2008 flickr had more than 3 billion images in their data base.

Flickr was a proposed multi-user game that was never released because of its huge take off as an image website. The first thing the Flickr website had was a chat room called flickrLive. flickrLive was a place where people could share and exchange their images with others. Flickr was mainly only a forum where members would post pictures they had found on the web however rapidly the site evolved into A site where users would rather show off their personal images.


In 2005 Ludicorp was bought out by yahoo and they became the proud new owners of the flickr Brand and site. Still today flickr is growing at an alarming rate and is getting bigger and more popular. Because of this sites social networking infrastructure which combines photos with it, this site is on the on-his-mind best sites online list.

If you are a photographer or you do anything cool with images or other artwork you should be on flickr. To go to flickr go to http://www.flickr.com/