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One of my colleagues got a digital camera for her birthday two weeks ago and she’s been taking pictures with it, of course, after the pictures have been been taken, they need to be shared with the rest of the world ala Facebook,

so she got the pictures out of her camera and tried to upload them to her blog and her profile account on Facebook and discovered that the pictures were taking too long to upload, she came to me for help, and that is what inspired this post.
Most digital cameras produce pictures in JPEG format. Most times the file sizes tend to be very large, in the magnitude of Megabytes(MB), therefore, they need to be resized so that they can be uploaded to the web. Personally I use Google Picasa to resize and manage my photos, however not everyone has this nifty tool installed so we are going to use another tool instead, The other tool I  would recommend is Microsoft Office Picture Manager, it is very simple to use and it also does batch resizing which can be very handy sometimes. It comes with most installations of Microsoft Office.

before you start resizing, i would recommend that you always resize copies of your photos and not the originals because resizing means the pictures become smaller in size and it is difficult to enlarge a picture that has been reduced in size. So copy the pictures in a folder anywhere on your computer and then fire up MOPM, you can find it under Microsoft Office - Microsoft Office Tools - Microsoft Office Picture Manager

To resize a picture, simply right click on the picture and select Open With - Microsoft Office Picture Manager, if it is not listed then you are out of luck, you need to install Microsoft Office first.
Once the picture is opened in MOPM, Click on Edit Picture on the toolbar, then click on the resize link on the Edit Picture Sidebar that appears. Personally I use percentages to reduce the pictures, this means that when am done, the pictures will remain proportional and not appear distorted.

Select Percentage of Original width x Height,
This option allows you to reduce the picture to a discrete percentage of its former size. Once you enter a new value, the new height and width is display, simply click OK to apply the new size, then click on save to save the changes, There you are! you have learnt how to resize images.

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