I'm new to this and have some raw photos of the moon I'd like to post. Its just that the pictures over 1mg in size straight from my digicam. How can I shrink them to an appropriate size? Thanks.

There are a number of ways to save them small.

If you are a Windows user, you can open a JPG with Paint, select Image>Stretch and Skew, and stretch it with a percentage less than 100 -- 20% will bring a high bit level image down to a small size. You can then save it and upload it. If the image is not a JPG or other Paint friendly format, then your camera image management program should be able to save it as a JPEG and probably can scale the image down as well.

If you are a Photoshop user, you can use File>Save for Web and use the scaling options there.

If you are a GIMP user (go GIMP!) then you can open the image and use Image>Scale Image to reduce the size and save as a smaller JPEG.

HTH,

--Andy

Thanks for the advice.

you can get compupic too and resize your pics and then save them . when saving too you can bring down the compression to like 80% should be ok,,

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Another good and free little program that I like is "Irfanview" Google can find that quickly. Does all the basic stuff pretty easily.

Tom

If you're comfortable with command line programs and have a lot of images to resize, you might want to consider ImageMagick. I use its montage command to create thumbnails.