Saving Savvy With Dr. Mike: XNVIEW batch photo resize.

Today's cameras take great pictures but they produce huge photo files which are difficult to use for email, web pages and on-line photo albums. This tutorial shows how to use the free software XNVIEW to batch convert photos to a much more manageable size making your uploads much quicker.

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hey everyone this is doctor my coaster
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Mike but that's not why I'm here today
this is another saving see if these
episode
this time talking about a free photos
a program called X and jheel the small
little program that you can download
from seen that or the you can also
download it
from their web page which is X and you
dat cam it's kind of a Swiss Army knife
program
that there's a variety of different
things and it's basically a photo viewer
armpit he has some slim it'd photo
editing programs that gives you a lot of
information about the photos
but the feature that work to look at
today is its BH
converter in the batch converter allows
you to take a number of files
and convert them into various ways for
instance turning them
or adjusting their brightness sir maybe
change them all to black and white
but the function that were you looking
at today is the ability to take a
variety
of pictures and pH convert them to a
different size now why is it important
but support for a couple of reasons most
cameras they produce pretty big
files which is great if you want to
manipulate the filer baby are
printed up but not so good if you want
to use it in other formats
so frances if you want to send a several
files two or several photos to a friend
via email
are you want to upload some pictures to
your webpage
or if you want to upload a photo album
to something lace
Facebook you really get a lot of smaller
file because it's going to be much
quicker to upload those files
it's going to be much quicker for people
to download those files
and also its order protects you there
was a recent case where a lady published
today
Christmas card and added she had a full
resolution photo of her family
well she was surprised several months
later when someone found that picture
being used here's a full page
advertisement
for a European grocery store so this was
a lady that right I guess she got a
little notoriety
that she didn't lad now if this file was
in a smaller file size would be very
difficult to blow it up
to a full-size yet so kinda protects you
too so let's take a look
how this particular fewer can be used to
pH convert files to a smaller file size
okay we are now in the accent your a
little closer feel that there are a
couple have different ways to select
pictures
one way would be to just shift and click
like you normally would
I to any Windows program or to control
clerk
but we're actually going to use a taking
little radio box here when attacked
these files
just for the heck overtime this could
pick these here
and let's say he wanted to convert these
pictures for
a Facebook album so we're gonna go up to
the top of the screen
in your hero radio a little I can hear
say convert wanna press that
and we're gonna pick text files as we
take this process a tech trials
there's a bunch of files that were going
to do
and the important thing is to know where
the ALP it's going to be
so a good idea would be to create
assessed for
file folder to a say in this case I'm
calling it web
and also my pictures there if I send
them back to the original file folder I
run the risk
love over writing my bigger files and I
don't want to do that because those
bigger files are going to be great for
printing up photos for editing photos
not so good for the web so I've created
a folder
very simple and here are the pictures
are hitting get transform
and I'm that the transformation there
are many different things that you can
pick in transformation as you can see
just tons of stuff
but what we're interested in is resize
so in a press resize here
and there were gonna go and he had it
over here
and down here we can pick the size of
the resize
in this case we're going to pic
800 pixels by
800 pixels now you can pick a smaller
size or a larger size depending on what
you wanna do but I think 800 by eight
hundred
his you a picture that's still has
enough detail in it but yet small enough
and we definitely want this keep ratio
button clicked
that means that the pictures are going
to retain their right to mentions are
not gonna be squished or
expanded making your pictures look funny
down here you'll see
that there's a another dropdown menu
this gives you a variety of different
ways that the program is going to
calculate the resizing
I'm just going to pick the default here
so that's all you have to chill
now we go down here press go
believe it or not
rate it will say yes it's done it so
that's all it took to resize all those
photos
so let's take a look and see how well
they look
here we are with our converted files you
can see they're perfect for web browsing
you see are two very friendly cat 6 they
really like each other
but you can see the other photos are
just trying to not too big not too small
great to send any email or your Facebook
L bomb
or even for your web page again you can
change the sizes of these photos
to whatever needs that here I think the
800 by
800 to for me at is good for most uses
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