How to resize photos

[Brendan]

Photos in the BYO Guitar website can be a maximum of 1500 pixels a side. Easiest way I've found to resize is to use a program such as Irfan View to resize images.

Steps as follows.
Open Irfanview and go to File > Batch Conversion/Rename
https://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=32266&d=1569244407

Use the file browser to navigate to your photos.
Once you're in the directory you can add all photos or selectively add individual photos if you want.
https://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=32267&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1569244407

Set an output directory - I generally use the input directory with a subdirectory "small" to keep things simple.
https://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=32268&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1569244407

Tick the box for "Use advanced options (for bulk resize)" and dive into the options.
https://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=32269&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1569244407

[Brendan]

Tick the box for "RESIZE"
https://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=32270&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1569244478

Tick "Set new size:"
https://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=32271&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1569244478

Tick "Set long side to:" and set the side to 1500 pixels.
https://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=32272&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1569244478

Hit OK and Start Batch.
https://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=32273&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1569244478
10 seconds later voila!

[fender3x]

I like Irfanview a lot and have used it for years. It's great for resizing and cropping in particular. Fast, small and free. Great program.

I have seen that a lot of folks access the site on phones using an app like Tapatalk. If I want to post a pic, I'll take the pic on my phone and want to post it without uploading to my computer. To crop/resize on my phone I use an app called "Photo & Picture Resizer"...not a very creative name, but descriptive. Posting a pic of the icon. Not as good as Irfanview but best I have found so far for my phone.32274

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[DarkMark]

Thanks fender3x, I’ll give it a go.

[McCreed]

If you're using a Windows PC, there is "Paint" which is free as it's included in the Win OS in Programs.
Easy to use, intuitive, free. You can choose to re-size by percent or pixels.

That's my quick go-to as I post pics mostly from computer.

[RocknRolf]

I'll have a look at Irfanview,
I have used "snipping tool" from windows if I just want to show something quickly that I found online.

> press windows key > type "snip"> hit enter
> Press new or Crtl+N > and drag over the image you want to show
> Save

There a lot of ways, but the Bulk option of Irfanview sounds great!

[Sonic Mountain]

If you use Imgur and just copy and paste the BBCode it automatically resizes for you.

https://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=8108

I have it on my phone, so I can upload directly from my photo library. I don't normally post here from my phone, but I can have Imgur on one tab and this one another, which makes grabbing the uploaded images and putting them in my post easy.

[WeTheNorth]

Quickest and easiest is to open them in Microsoft Paint and just resize them by %.
Depending on how big your original photo is.
Say with a new Samsung phone (which takes photos in gih res) I resized them twice in a row by 50%.

[TZK321]

Quickest and easiest is to open them in Microsoft Paint and just resize them by %.
......

It's basically the same with MacOS: Open the photo in Preview, click Tools - Adjust Size - Fit into and change it from Custom to 640 x 640.
Hope this helps.

[Barfly1959]

Or just resize the longest side of your photo to 1500 pixels in Preview.