As camera photo quality continues to improve, resulting in larger files sizes (e.g. 3MB) it is increasingly important to resample the images to reduce the file size before uploading them to your website. Below are step by step instructions on how to use the photo editing tool at www.rsizr.com.
1. Find the website using Google or just click the following link www.rsizr.com.
2. Click the 'Open a picture to get started!' folder & browse to the photo you want to edit & click OK.
3. Click 'Rescale'
4. Tick 'Maintain Proportions'
5. Key in a reduced width e.g. '600'
6. Hit the Return/Enter key on your computer.
7. Click 'Save Picture'
8. Select '.JPG'
9. Select 'Save to Computer'
10. Add '.jpg' after the 'File name' & click 'Save'
Following the steps provided above should reduce the file size considerably. In addition the tool offers other editing options and has its own help section.
If you have lots of files to do at once you might want to consider using some photo editing software.
Programs such as Photoshop Elements (right), with which you can edit many photos at once using batch processing options. The program has an extensive help section & in addition there are lots of websites offering help including YouTube videos.
You would just need to do a search on a phrase like 'resizing images in Photoshop Elements', or batch processing images in Photoshop Elements' etc.