How to resize pictures - GIMP

Installing GIMP

GIMP is free open source software that allows you to manipulate pictures. Kind of like the commercially available Adobe Photoshop.

For non Windows OS go here to get it: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

For Windows OS users follow these steps:
1. Download GIMP from here http://www.gimp.org/windows/ (if you have non Windows OS then select the other downloads on the site)
2. At http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html download ‘The GIMP for Windows’ and appropriate ‘GTK+ 2 Runtime Environment’.
3. Uncompress ‘GTK+ 2 Runtime Environment’ and install it
4. Uncompress ‘The GIMP for Windows’ and install it

Resizing pictures in GIMP
1. Open the picture by selecting ‘File>Open’ on the menu. Navigate to find your picture and click ‘Open’ button
2. Once you have the image opened select ‘Image>Scale Image’
3. Change Image Size Width to 500 pixels or less
4. Hit ‘Scale’ button
5. On the menu select ‘File>Save As’
6. Type in the file name
7. Click on the + next to ‘Browse for other folders’. Select destination folder.
8. Select JPEG image type from the dropdown and hit ‘Save’ button
9. Click on the + next to ‘Select File Type’. Select ‘JPEG image’ from the list
10. Press ‘Save’ button
11. In the save as JPEG window drag the ‘Quality’ sliding bar until file size is < 100KB.
12. Check ‘Show Preview in image window’
13. Press ‘OK’ button

Here are some screen shots of the above described steps:

 

pic 4