QUOTE(closeup @ Oct 18 2006, 03:42 PM)
My "old" computer was a Hewlett/Packard. It had a feature call HP Image Zone. I barely learned how to use that. This computer was my brothers, a Sony Vaio. It dosn't seem to have any of the Microsoft programs installed on it. I get to the sidebar that says "resize", nothing happens. Same as the one that says, "compress". I'll see if Paint is installed.
strange. If the computer has paint, you should be able to find it under start > programs > Accessories > Paint.
From there you can just open the picture and go to the image pulldown menu. then go to stretch/skew and change your horizontal and veritcal percentages. If you change them the same percentage, you'll keep the same ratio and the image will look fine.
another way to get into paint is to right click on the picture file (not the pic, but the actual file in the folder). after right clicking on the file, one of the options in the menu that pops up will be "open with >" under Open With, you should see the program titled Paint.
hope that works.
I'm hoping that now that I've told you how to reduce the size of a pic that you have some pics of naked women on your computer that you can send our way.
one more thing. after you resize the pic, you'll have to save it. But don't click on save otherwise you'll be messing with the original. Go to save as and add a 1 or an A or something ot the end of the file name.. so if the file was called car.jpg, call it car1.jpg.
okay. I'm done.