Resizing Pictures.

[Daij]

I have scanned a lot of old photographs originally taken on a kodak instamatic. I have them in a folder in JPEG format. When I view them they are about 3 inches square on the screen with a large A4 size border.
I can zoom in to make them larger but they don't save in the larger format.
The only way I can enlarge them and save is by inserting them into Word and resizing by dragging the corner outwards.
If I do this I cannot show them on my external electronic album. How can I emlrage them and keep them in JPEG format?

[squarebear]

Resize them in MS Paint?

[Daij]

Tried paint - it didnt work. Unless I didn't do it properly. Never used Paint before tonight.

[squarebear]

In the version of Paint I have, you can go into image - stretch/skew and resize then in there.

[Mosaic]

Daij, can you check the file extension of the actual objects in your image folder? It's just sounding to me a bit as if a kodak image software has encouraged you to use it and may have already put these images into some kind of album holder, hence you are seeing a border around them. This makes it harder for you to work with your images.

If they are jpg / jpeg. then I think what has happened is that the scanning has left white space around each picture, that looks like 'paper' but as far as stupid computers are concerned it is all part of one image. When you scroll through your folder the image that opens up is the image as far as the computer knows, but what you are seeing is lots of white border etc.

So what you need to do is crop each image first of all so that you do not have any white space. You can do this in paint. Open the image in paint, select the crop tool, crop and save.
If you have scanned several images on each scan (I do this a lot) then do the cropping process but choose 'save as' and give each image a separate name.

Inserting images into word is unnecessary and just causes more problems further down the road.

Hope this helps.

[LochNessMonster]

Use Pixlr.com free photo editing suite.

[LochNessMonster]

Use advance link upload you picture use tools and save as same current name.