How Do You Resize Screenshot?

[soup]

I can get my screenshot no problem.I have paint & Nero Photo Snap but here's where my problems start & believe me I have tried this on my own without success.My screenshot ends up at around 1.13MB - 1.17MB & to go through ImageShack it has to be less than 1024kB.So any ideas on how I achieve this & remember you are dealing with a rookie slightly noobular computerist?

[blutach]

Make it a PNG or GIF. That will make it much smaller. And crop it with MS paint/MS Picture Manager.

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[paglamon]

Or JPEG.

[soup]

Thanks blutach for everything & paglamon thank you.I am going to give it a shot.

[techreactor]

Use Screenhunter free, it usually gives to a very small size.

[LT. Columbo]

hey soup, if you want to do it fast and simple, when it's opened in paint go to image>stretch/skew. enter new values for the horizontal and vertical feilds say 60 or 70 or whatever now save it as png.

[soup]

@techreactor I have Screenhunter free but I have never installed it maybe I will give it a shot on the next one.Thank you for your input.

@blutach & paglamon for some reason png stayed @over 1MB but both gif & jpeg brought it down to decent size where I did not have to crop.Decided to go with gif & it worked.It doesn't look that great but what the heck.

@blutach don't seem to have MS/picture manager installed.

@LT I was wondering what that was for thanks LT.

@techreactor

[UncasMS]

HOVERSNAP is a good freeware for these tasks

png is useful when taking screenshots with 8bit, the 24bit mode, however, results in way toooooo big files (except for rather lossless comparisons)

jpg is good when it comes to images with lots a smooth colour gradient to keep, whereas gif (or better png 8bit) is best for taking screenshots of application windows with not so many different colours/gradients

an excellent image editor (freeware) is: PHOTOFILTRE, which will let you resize all images and provide tons of helpful features and decent filtres

[soup]

Duly noted UncasMS & your right I found out about png.I have both & will practice thank you.

[anonymez]

alternative explanation

png- for completely lossless compression (think of it as saving as bmp, then adding to a zip/rar file), but can be viewed without extraction, supports transperancy, does very well with line art, repetitive images/patterns, smaller colour range, etc. best format IMO. do not use paint for png's

jpg- excellent (lossy) compression for photos, real life objects, wide range of colours and tones. i set compression to 90%

bmp- lossless. very fast to save/open, but no compression; huge file size

gif- don't like it, only useful for animated images

best freeware for cropping/resizing/compressing images - xnview http://www.xnview.com

use lanczos resize for best results

[techreactor]

@techreactor I have Screenhunter free but I have never installed it maybe I will give it a shot on the next one.Thank you for your input.


@techreactor

I am quite happy with Screenhunter output size.

And thanks for the wishes Soup, my friend.

[Chewy]

@anony,
what's wrong with my old standard freeware IrfanView?

[anonymez]

@anony,
what's wrong with my old standard freeware IrfanView?

absolutely nothing, i like infranview too, but xnview (also freeware) has many, many more excellent functions, is easier to use (and more comfortable to work with IMO). regarding resize/compression, which is what's being discussed here, the only difference is that xnview outputs/converts pretty much every image file type in existance. excellent app.

i prefer it for resizing/cropping/compressing-- photoshop takes agest to start up

[soup]

Thank you anonymez I now have it to try & chewy I also have IrfanView as well.Doesn't hurt to give things a shot.