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Hi all,
     I need to know of any ways so that when I resize my pics they stay of 'satisfactory' quality.
    Does anyone know of any good programs or methods? (I was thinking of Paint Shop Pro rather than Microsoft Paint!!)
         Cheers,
     cspyro21

Cspyro:

The trick to resizing - for me; anyway - is to make the initial shots as large as possible. If you can; whichever program you're using; set it to record screenshots in .bmp mode; not jpeg. That means there's no compression; you're dealing with the raw image.

That way; if you have to crop or otherwise adjust the pics size; you can do so before compressing it to below 100K.

As an example; assume I take a quick pic. It's huge; several Mb. I use MS Paint to crop the image to where I want it; make it look good. THEN I open Pix Resizer and convert it into 800X600; 100Kb. max.

Do it that way; you'll get good clear pics every time.

Of course; there's probably an easier way.

Hope this helps!

Use Irfanview...

It's great and simple to use. Normally I just crop them and then use the convenient "resize" facility, of which on of the presets is 800x600pxls, then save them as jpgs.

Normally I can save my screenshots at about 85% - 90% quality to get them below 100kb...

Thanks all for that, you'll probably hear from me again with problems and queries lol
         cspyro21

Hey; that's how you learn and get better, Cspyro!