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Resize picture when emailing with Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Mail

Resize picture when emailing with Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Mail

Recently, I've set up a PC for computer novices. The PC came with Vista installed, and for managing photo's I let it use Windows Photo Gallery, for email I used Windows Mail (which both came pre-installed). These programs were both wonderfully simple and easy to use, ideal for a computer novice. When you selected a bunch of pictures in Photo Gallery and pressed 'Email' it gave you a pop-up to resize the pictures for emailing purposes (down from 12MP to something more reasonable), a total size estimate and then attached them in a new email in Windows Mail.

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Guest [Entry]

The resize option is not given unless you are signed in to Windows Live.
Guest [Entry]

"Anyone's best bet for resizing images is to do them all before sending them in an email. Search Google for ""Windows Image Resizer"". The program is free from a MSVP and has been recently upgraded. It works great with Vista, 7 and 8.

Select a single photo, a few photos or all the photos in a folder. Right click on the highlighted images, choose Resize. There are several default sizes or you can customize the size. You can also choose to save all the originals and have the smaller photos saved beside the originals.

This takes the hassle out of depending on an email program to resize them for you. Many email programs do not offer a resize feature.

This is a wonderful tool which harkens back to Windows Power Toys for XP.

I am an independent Windows Remote Support/Windows Tutor who works from home. I connect to computers around the world every day. I have to know the simplest and most efficient ways to help people of all ages to better understand basic to advanced PC (desktop/laptop) tasks. I am 58 years old and have been an independent ""helper"" since 2006."