Reducing picture size to post on forum

[Amaranth]

How do we reduce picture size so they can be used as profile pictures here?

Do the pictures that people are putting in their posts need to be reduced too?

[Alan]

The forum software will automatically reduce your picture to the appropriate size for a profile picture.

Unfortunately, the same is not true for posting pictures within a thread. If you post a large pic, it will post at it's original size which is often much larger than the typical computer monitor resolution can accomodate without scrolling left to right. I usually re-size my pictures to about 640x480 prior to posting them here. That's big enough to provide detail, but small enough not to skew the page.

If you don't have a preference in image editing software, every version of Windows has a basic editor 'Paint', which will do the job nicely.

[Rosemary]

IrfanView is a free, small size application that does simple image editing.