Resizing Photos for Online Use

Posted on May 1, 2006 by Bill Hall

I’m spending most of today resizing some photos for upload to a photo-sharing site. Just thought I’d pass some resizing tips on to the rest of you. If you need to resize a bunch of photos, make sure they are all going the same direction. In other words, put all your horizontal photos into one folder, and all your vertical photos in another. That way, when you resize everything, they won’t end up being all distorted. So, how do you go about resizing photos? If you use Photoshop Elements, or Photoshop, look under the file menu for “automate > batch…” … Continue reading →

Picasa Photo Software (part two)

Posted on March 22, 2006 by Bill Hall

In my last post, I talked about the Picasa photo software from Google. Today, let’s continue with seeing what it can do. The slideshow button is next on the list at the top of the startup screen, and it does just what you would think. It shows all of the pictures in a particular folder, one at a time, in sequence, as a full screen view. To exit the slideshow, click anywhere on the screen and use the exit slideshow button on the bottom of the screen to go back. The next feature to check out is the timeline function. … Continue reading →