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Microsoft Office Picture Manager (included with Microsoft Office 2007 – for Windows: XP, Vista & 7) This image organizer and editor (more photograph friendly than “Paint”) will allow you to do standard cropping; it also has some basic editing features. But more importantly for us (and this topic), it allows resizing and some compression/quality choices.
Under the “Resize settings”, select the radio button for “Custom width x height:” and type “768” (without the quotes) in both the width and height boxes (don’t worry, it will not distort the image and make your rectangular image square). Look a little farther down the panel and notice the “Size setting summary” area. It will display the original pixel dimensions and the new ones. Go ahead and click “OK”. The program will create a new copy of your image in the new pixel dimensions. (In the off chance you do mess up the pixel dimensions, just Right Click on the new image that was created and select “Discard Changes”). Now that we have resized the image pixel wise, let’s change the actual file size (compression/quality). Go to “Picture” on the top menu again and click “Compress Pictures…” from the drop-down menu (or click on the drop-down menu available on the top of the “Resize” panel). On the right side of the display, the “Resize” panel has been replaced with the “Compress Pictures” panel. You now have 4 choices. While there is no custom setting, at least when we click on the different radio buttons, down lower on the panel you’ll see an “Estimated total size” area that shows the original file size and the compressed size. Use whichever of the 4 that gets you the closest to that magic number of 350kb. Don’t forget to rename your new image file using a file naming convention for the particular competition you are entering.
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