Shrinking a digital photo involves reducing its dimensions and/or resolution. This can be accomplished quite easily by using IrfanView, the leading freeware image editor.

On Unix/Linux platforms, use the free software image manipulation utilities from ImageMagick.

Steps

  1. 1
    Download and install IrfanView.
  2. 2
    Run IrfanView. Click File > Open.
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  3. 3
    Browse to the photo you wish to shrink.
  4. 4
    Left-click the name of the photo to select it.
  5. 5
    Click the Open button. The photo will appear in the IrfanView window.
  6. 6
    To reduce the dimensions of the photo, click Image > Resize/Resample.
  7. 7
    Select the options you prefer and click OK.
  8. 8
    To reduce the quality of a .JPG image without changing its dimensions, click File > Save As and select JPG - JPEG Files from the drop-down list. Click the Options button and use the slide bar to select a lower image quality. This will reduce the disk space used by the photo.
  9. 9
    After altering the image, click File > Save As and select a new file name. Click the Save button to create the new image.
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