Re: Windows Explorer - Thumbnail Views

Doug,

Thanks - but I don't understand MS Paint since I was in Windows Explorer
when I resized it.

Then you have some option that I never heard of.

When you right click a picture file and click on Edit, usually Paint opens to allow you to edit the file, unless you have some third party program that opens instead.

If you right click on a picture while looking at it in the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer and click on Edit, usually Paint opens to allow you to edit the file, unless you have some third party program that opens instead.

It's the same if you select a picture file, open the File menu in any folder or in Windows Explorer and select Edit, usually Paint opens to allow you to edit the file, unless you have some third party program that opens instead.

With Paint open, Attributes is opened from the Image menu on the Paint toolbar.

From Paint HELP...
To change the size of your picture
1. On the Image menu, click Attributes.
2. Under Units, click the unit of measurement you want to use for the width and height.
3. Type the measurements in Width and Height.

There is one option that maybe you're thinking of. If you right click a picture file, point to Send To and click on Mail Recipient, a resize picture option pops up, the Send Pictures via E-Mail wizard. But that only resizes the file that you send.

<quote>
Windows provides a special feature for sending photos or pictures in e-mail.
By providing the opportunity for you to reduce the file size of your photo
at the time you send it, Windows solves the problem of a large file
attachment never reaching its destination. In addition to reducing file
size, this feature also changes the dimensions of the image so that it fits
better on a computer screen.

You can change the settings to specify the size of the image. You can make
the size of the image smaller, but you cannot make a small image larger. If
your picture is bigger than the largest size indicated in the dialog box,
and you do not want Windows to reduce the size of the image, choose to keep
the original size. Making changes to the settings for sending a photo in
e-mail does not alter the original picture.
<quote>

Windows can resize pictures you send in E-mail so that they transfer faster
and are easier to view by the recipient.

To send a photo in e-mail
1 Open My Pictures, and then open the folder containing the photo you want
to send in e-mail.
2 Click the photo you want to send.
3 Under File and Folder Tasks, click E-mail this file.
4 In the Send Pictures via E-mail dialog box, click Make all my pictures
smaller.
Windows makes a smaller photo file and attaches it to an e-mail message
that displays a default subject and text message.

5 In the To box, type the e-mail address of the person to receive the
picture, change the subject and message text if you want, and then click
Send.

Notes
* To open My Pictures, double-click the My Documents icon on your desktop,
and then double-click the My Pictures folder.
* Use this procedure for photos of file size greater than 64 kilobytes (KB).
To check the file size of your photo, right-click the file, click
Properties, and look at Size.
* To send the photo without reducing the size of the file, click Keep the
original sizes.
* To change the settings for the size of the image, click Show more options.
* If you have many pictures to share with others, you can publish them to the
Web instead of sending them in e-mail.

Or you can...
1 Open My Pictures and then open the folder containing the photo you want
to send in e-mail.
2 Right click the photo you want to send.
3 Point to Send To and select Mail Recipient.
4 Resize the picture or not.
5 Click OK.
6 Outlook Express Message opens with picture attached.
7 In the To box, type the e-mail address of the person to receive the
picture, change the subject and message text if you want, and then click
Send.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:unjKMWmaHHA.1240@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Doug Mc <dnmcnNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
Thanks - but I don't understand MS Paint since I was in Windows Explorer
when I resized it.
And, why can I see the image as if it has not been changed when I set the
View to thumbnails??

Doug




"Wesley Vogel" <123WVogel955@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e6%23NLFmaHHA.1388@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Image | Attributes | Resize refers to resizing the file(s) using MS Paint
(mspaint.exe) not Windows Explorer. Unless you saved a backup file
before you edited any file you're probably SOL. It is just like editing
a Word or Notepad file and not saving a backup before editing, whatever
changes were made are then permanent.

SWAG: your thumbnails show OK because the thumbs.db file in that folder
has for some reason not been refreshed/updated.

--
Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

In news:O8dzWLlaHHA.208@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Doug Mc <dnmcnNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx> hunted and pecked:
I've goofed!

I have some JPG pictures in a folder.

I resized some of them using the Image/Attributes/Resize options in
Windows Explorer - and I shouldn't have.
I DOWNSIZED some of them and only a portion of the picture is there;
however, when I use the THUMBNAIL option I can see the original
full-sized
picture.

Is there some way I can capture the THUMBNAIL image and save it again as
a
full-sized picture?

Thanks,
Doug

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