Resizing Pictures

Ever want to show a whole lot of pictures in one post, but you don't want to take a whole lot of space? Posting magazine scans and editorials full size would be a nightmare to look at for the reader and it's easier to read posts that have pictures that are easily viewable.

For example, Fashion Addict did a professional job at posting an editorial of Tyra Banks, but she didn't post the regular size of the images. What she did was resized them to 175x175 pixels and linked those images to the actual size ones. Doesn't that look so much better than actually putting huge images up?

Blogger can resize your pictures from large to medium or small, but what if you want to go even smaller? Many webmasters use photo programs that are on their computer like Photoshop or Gimp, but there's many online programs where you can shrink your images without losing the quality as well.

One of my favorite places to resize images would be ShrinkPictures.com. It's simple to use and you can be done in minutes depending on how many pictures you want to resize. ReducePhoto.com is also another website where you can resize big images to a much smaller size online.

I resized my images and have posted them to my blog, now what?
If your blog publisher does not provide good image resizing programs, you have to resize the photo yourself and then link it to the actual size photo. Without linking the small photo to the regular size photo all your viewers can see is a small picture.

So what's best to do is to upload the regular set of photos somewhere else like a test blog or Photo Bucket, and then get the url of the picture and use that as the link. Again, if you don't link the small photos to the actual photos, that means your viewer will only get to see a small picture. Manually linking images seems like a pain, but in the end it looks a whole lot better!