Compressing Photos with Win 8
 

Hello,

My last laptop had Vista and included Microsoft Picture Manager which worked fine to compress photos for forum posting and emailing. My new laptop has Windows 8 and no Picture Manager anymore; can you tell me how I can compress photos in 8, or recommend a decent program to load?

Thanks,
Rutager

I use paint. It's included with windows and just good enough for basic editing like resizing, etc.

I only wish I could use it from the desktop (right click-resize) like in XP

If you find something let me know! ;-)

Does Windows still have a "send to" menu option? IIRC you created a directory named Send To in your c:\documents and settings\username directory (would be c:\users\username now I guess) and then put shortcuts to whatever applications you wanted. Right click on any file and open it in app of your choice. There is/was also the right click and "open with" option that showed up in vista/7, is that still there?

good call, paint should work

Irfanview It's free, it's easy & it works. There is even a Save to Web plugin available to compress after you resize.

Ian

Rwest- my Win8 machine has Picture Manager- and I use it for bulk/compressing pics....are you sure its not there?

Failing that, Ifranview as mentioned, is good.

I use the one TimT linked to in my Win 8.1 machine.
Works great since you can resize from just about anywhere you can reach the picture files.
Even when you're trying to upload to Pelican. Find the file, right click and you're resizing right in the window you've opened to upload via the advanced posting window.

Picture resizing
 

Paint.

Thanks for the ideas, I looked for picture manager and then did a google search and it came up with Microsoft not putting it on 8.

For those using Paint, what size do you set your pictures for posting on this or other forums?

Rutager

Apparently the Powertoy Image resizer does work with window 8

The Best Image Resizers For Windows 8 And RT

You have to install this yourself..

Image Resizer

Picture manager was a part of the MS Office package.

8 should have Windows Live Photo Gallery.

The forum automatically resizes images. I shoot for 1200px on the long side these days.

Is resizing the same as compressing? If I take a picture with a 12MP camera and try and post it, it will be too big of a file, right? Does resizing automatically compress the file too?

Thanks

Yes and no. It will shrink the file size a little, but compression happens when you save the image i.e. as a gif, jpg, png.

Resizing really only changes the physical size of the image. 4x6", 8.5x11"...