Tutorial downsizing digital photos/ altering picture size

You want to email your vacation pictures to your friends and relatives. As you are using an excellent digital camera producing high defintion photos all pictures are too big to attach to the email. That means the photos need to be downsized and compressed.
With the help of ImageBlizzard you can do all these steps for all your pictures in just one run!

1. Start the program ImageBlizzard.

2. In Windows open the folder with the pictures that you want to be downsized.

3. Drag and drop a photo from the Windows-Explorerwindow into the grey preview screen of ImageBlizzard. (Alternatively you can search the folder within the program ImageBlizzard by use of the dialog box to select files.)

4. Adjust the desired size. To look at the pictures on a display a size of 700 – 1000 pixel is recommended. E.g. your display resolution is 1024 x 768 pixel such a picture would almost fill the whole screen. If your display resolution is 1400 x 1050 pixel a picture with 700 pixel width would fill half the screen and a picture with 1000 pixel width ca. fills ¾ of the screen.
   The menu items to change the picture size work as the following: If no checkmark is set for height and width the program will analyse the picture. If it is a picture in landscape format the value that is written in the box “width” (musste ja dann auch im programm übersetzen..) will be used as the new width and height will be computed proportionally to width by the program. E.g. you want to have the longer side of all pictures to be always 400 pixel long you write 400 pixel in both boxes and don´t set any checkmarks. If the checkmark is set in the box for width this value will be used in either case and height will be comuputed proportionally to it. And vice versa if the checkmark is set for height. So if you want all pictures to be 400 pixel wide, no matter if landscape or upright format, enter the value of 400 in the box for width and set the checkmark there.
   

5. Be sure that the checkmark for altering picture size is set. If that checkmark is not set the pictures will be copied unchanged.

6. Adjust the desired degree of compression / picture quality with the slider “JPEG-quality”. The value of 100 means highest quality and lowest compression (big file). A lesser value means lower quality and higher compression (small file). An optimum ratio of quality and file size can be reached with values ranging from 80 to 90.
   

7. Click on the „start“ button and confirm the following notice with OK. Finished, that´s it! Now ImageBlizzard is doing all the work and changing every picture in this folder and saving the new pictures to a separate folder. This folder is called “_ImgBlizzard” and it is inside the folder in which the original pictures we started with are.