NOTE: IF YOU'RE SENDING ME REUNION PHOTOS FOR THE WEBSITE, PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR REUNION PHOTOS
If you're planning to send me photos to put on the website, it will be easier for me if you'll resize them first. Largest size I put on web pages is about 640x480. It would also be nice if you can include the names of people in the photos, if you happen to know.
The easiest way to keep the photos down to a reasonable size for emailing and including on webpages is to set your camera down to 1 megapixel (or whatever your lowest setting is), if you know how. IF YOU PLAN TO PRODUCE HARD-COPIES FOR YOURSELF, YOU'LL PROBABLY WANT TO USE A HIGHER SETTING THAN 1 MEGAPIXEL.
***** MS IMAGE RESIZER DESCRIBED BELOW ONLY WORKS ON WINDOWS XP ... NOT VISTA ... SORRY ABOUT THAT *****
If you take big photos, they can be easily resized for emailing by using a neat Microsoft tool, the Image Resizer. I recently discovered this VERY SIMPLE, FREE Microsoft program that allows you to EASILY resize photos before emailing them, which results in much faster upload time when you send and much faster download time when they're received. What's more, you can do a bunch of them with a single mouse-click! Visit the Microsoft PowerToys page, then scroll down and look on the right side for "Image Resizer." There are a bunch of neat "toys" there, but this one is the one that I wanted most, and wanted to pass along to friends and relatives who continue to email me photos that are over a megabyte each :) After you've downloaded the tool to your computer, you can simply right-click on any photo(s), select (Small - 640x480), and it creates a COPY that you can email. The original photo is left as-is. Any questions about it, email me at rjhoffman@yahoo.com