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Resizing an Image using Microsoft Photo Editor (MSPE) There are two ways to begin. Use whichever is easier for you. Find the picture you want to resize, then left click on it once to highlight it…

…then right click

to open a menu of choices.

Click on the “Open With” choice...

list of programs that the image.

Double click on Photo Editor.

…to get a will open

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Another way to begin is to click Start> Programs > Microsoft Photo Editor > Open as shown below:

W hile in MSPE, click on File > Find and open the image you want to resize.

Once you’ve selected your image and opened Microsoft Photo Editor, you’re ready to begin resizing the image….

In this example we’ll resize a large image. The image is called “cicada killer wasp.jpg.” It has a file size of 1,264 kb or 1.264 Mb. It’s physical size is 1755 pixels by 1194 pixels. That means it’s too large to fit completely on a typical computer screen. Let’s assume that we need to reduce the physical size of the image to around 200 pixels by 200 pixels.

Now click on Image and then on Resize

The Resize box should come up.

With the dropdown box, change Inches to Pixels.

Change either the Width or Height of the image to fit your needs.

Notice that the other dimension will change accordingly.

Then click OK. Your image has now been resized. The next step is to save the resized image without overwriting the original image.

Follow the steps below to save and rename your image.

You’re done!! Congratulations!!

The resulting resized file is only 12kb (1/100th the size of the original).

The physical size is 200 pixels by 136 pixels, a much more reasonable size for Web use.

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