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I just blogged about the need to resize digital photos.

Here are some more solutions I’ve found for this tricky problem. These are tools that you are likely to be able to access in schools.

1) Use Microsoft Picture Manager. There is a detailed worked example here from the educationict website.

2) If you are using an RM network and have Colour Magic available, this can be used. There is an excellent help-sheet, again on the educationict site; here

3) Find an on-line web resizing service. Webresizer http://webresizer.com/, seems to be very useful. It has an easy to use cropping tool, and you can change contrast, ‘exposure’ and colour saturation, although these effects  are a bit tricky to use as you have to enter values rather than drag sliders.

Here’s a photo that I cropped, brightened and reduced its size. It of my favourite camera for work in schools; the Mavica FD 200 with memory stick. Still going strong! The picture is 93% smaller than the original, so webresizer tells me. It has also made a good job of the play people, though the upload time of this large file was longer than I expected.

I am still open to any other ideas! Please add a comment.

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