Hi,
I would like to ask for some advice how to resize pics in order to prevent horizontal scrolling in the forum. I have 15.4'' WUXGA screen on my ThinkPad and whenever I take a desktop screenshot or even only a partial screenshot with the snipping tool or export some office or pdf document as a pic, it appears quite huge in the post. For instance, I posted some table from excel: I converted the excel file to .pdf with settings for minimal storage size of the pdf file, then I cropped all the blank spaces out of the pdf and then exported the pdf as a .tiff image. All in all just under 7KB, nevertheless the image appears huge. When I tried to resize the .tiff image using paint, its storage size grew over 100 KB... So, my question is this: Is there anything that can be done to reduce the optical size of the image, yet keeping it under 56KB, so that I can embed the image in the forum?

If you host the image at http://www.imageshack.us/ there is an option before you upload to resize the image to a smaller optical size.

Ah true, great! Thanks a lot, Gom! That worked.

EDIT: I spoke too early. I tested this in my last post (the antivirus comparison) and when I checked the image size, it is now over 200 KB

Using the popular Irfanview, it has many options to resize a picture. http://www.irfanview.com/

Indeed, I photoshopped it a bit and the trick turned out to be resizing the image without resampling it. Of course, it is not the same quality, but it is still readable.

Thanks,

Marin

Post a link instead.

Well, yes, that is the easiest way, but that was not the point. If it was, I wouldn´t have asked, would I.

<quirks brow>

You're feeling your oats tonight, aren't you?

I'm using Photoshop to change Image size (Ctrl+Alt+I)
And Save for Web to adjust the compression (Shift+Ctrl+Alt+S)