make images smaller

[babsy]

Hi everyone!

Does anyone of you any solution to this! one of my clients, wants to know if there is a way to make the pictures smaller automatic, when you insert pictures in meda, is there a way of making them smaller?
Because he has no program to make them smaller!??

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

in default WB there is no such option. But there exists a lot of freeware tools on internet with wich you can reach this. I personally like "JPEG Resampler" , as it is free, small and you can minimize whole directories lokally. This minimizes upload time and server resources. As if you us a script on the server you have to upload the big picture (upload time!) and then have the server to reduce this online (Server resources!).

Matthias

[DGEC]

It depends on where they're getting the pictures from and what they're doing with them. Some camera software will do it almost "automatically" if you set it up the right way.  For example, "email picture" options usually will resize.

Another very popular tool is IrfanView, which can do a ton of stuff.
However, for a non-technical user (automatically implies that), I would recommend Picasa.

It's pretty, fast and has several good "1 click fix" options.  If I'm not mistaken, they can go through their pictures, hit space to mark the pictures they want as favourites, and then select Export Favourites to any folder, at whatever size they want, with all their changes, comments, etc.

Matthias is right, it is wasteful, however I think that one or more of the galleries will resize automatically after you upload them. 

If that doesn't work for you, there's a couple of other options.

Some of the other gallery programs, e.g. Coppermine or Menalto's Gallery, will automatically resize when you upload. You can use the wrapper module to imbed a gallery installation into WB. The issues with doing that are how it fits in the template and it requires multiple sign-ins and procedures. 

There is a Picassa option to export directly to your gallery but some of the forum comments indicate it's not the easiest to use.  http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:picasa

http://missioncommunicate.com/blog/2005/04/27/picasa-coppermine-photo-gallery/ is a 5 step process which eventually uses the Windows Publish to the Web wizard.