Images for website

[Fireside]

The images for my website have been supplied by most of my suppliers on discs. Trouble is they are too big to load. Can anyone suggest some not too expensive/easy to use software that will solve this problem.

Thanks

Ann

 

Ann
By too big to load, do you mean that size wise they are too large?

Most suppliers will provide images that are high resolution and therefore sizeable beasts, and most often not a size that fits the screen to the website either.

I would suggest resizing the image to c500x500 pixels saving a version at that size and then loading that up instead - you can use any photo editor for that, microsofts own photo editor which comes as part of the Windows set up is perfectly adequate.

 

[andysears]

So cheap its free.

Try the Image Resizer Powertool from Microsoft.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

This is what somoe of my clients use before uploading images to websites.

 

[BadCompany]

Have you managed to solve your problem?

 

[Fireside]

Hi Boho

Computers not my strong point, don't think we have photo editor installed on our computer. Thanks for the advice.

Ann

 

[gocreate]

You could try downloading a 30 day trial version of photoshop at www.adobe.com

You can resize images and save them for web easily.

Hope this helps.

Iain

 

[Fireside]

Hi All
Will try out all your suggestions, and let you know how I get on. I could be back later needing more advice.

Ann

 

[blown away]

There is also imazer, which is free to download.

 

[Astaroth]

GIMP is another free software package which is billed as the opensource photoshop.

To be honest both photoshop and GIMP are overkill for simply resizing images and have steep learning curves.

There are other free tools for doing such things as already mentioned or as a paid solution FireWorks has a very good image resizing tool which we find often gives a much better quality to filesize ratio than the much more expensive photoshop - the difference between a specialist tool and non-specialist

 

[RedEvo]

To do it with GIMP (on Windoze).

1. Launch GIMP .
2. Select File > Open and select your source file.
3. Select Image > Scale Image in the image window.
4. Change the image width to your preferred width in pixels
5. Click Scale
6. Click File > Save
7. That's it you're done!

d

 

[Fireside]

Hi All
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. With the help of all you very nice people I have just managed to upload my first image to my website. And if you want to see which one it is visit my site, go to literacy, books then Oxford Reading Tree Floppy's sticker book. Let me know what you think
Ann

 

[Dawg]

Which method did you use to do it? (Looks ok.)

 

[Fireside]

Hi Dawg

I used the download tha andysears suggested http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

All my images were Tif but I then change them to jpgs as my shopping cart would not accept Tif. Having very little computer knowledge I feel I achieved wonders. Without the help of UK members I was about to go off and buy and packaged recommended by my designers. So glad I took andysears advice.
How do I get my URL at the foot of my posts. Help
Ann

 

[Dawg]

Yes you are climbing that learning curve speedily. Well done. (That sounds horribly patronising; not meant like that.)
To fully optimize them will take a bit of time and knowledge, and software, and as they are looking ok I would advise putting energies elsewhere for the moment. There is always something else to do; the SEO is never ending for instance..
You can always go back later, or when you learn something else and that gives you a eureka moment: Ahhh so that's what they meant! (Wish I had more of them!).
I think you have to be a paid member to have your URL at the bottom of the post.

 

[Fireside]

Yes a huge learning curve, when the fun starts, tell me. Time I have lots of , knowledge is very limited. So I need all the advice and input I can get. Feel free to share.
Thanks
Ann

 

[Nigel B]

Fireworks is v good.

 

[Chris H]

For free on Windows I'd recommend IrfanView.

Does batch resize as well.

 

[ken_uk]

I second irfanview, very useful tool.

 

[Fireside]

Thanks everyone, I have managed to upload images. Just the one though lots more to be getting on with.

Regards
Ann