If you have ever had the need to send your images to friends or family via email, or post on the web you would have realised that it is just not practical to use the full size images straight out of your digital camera. I am sure that your mother, who is still using a dial up internet connection doesn’t want to try to have to download a 20 meg email.

So, ideally you need to shrink them to a more suitable size before sending. But, one might ask how is the easiest way to do that?

Unless you are working with it one a regular basis image editing software can be very confusing. If your needs are simple and you can’t be bothered investing the time to learn a complex software package a great alternative is Shrink Pictures. They offer an on-line image manipulation service where you can resize your images, apply some effects (sepia and greyscale) and specify the quality of the resized image with a few clicks of the mouse.

Many website forums allow you to submit an image to use as an avatar which is shown when you make a post. Creating an avatar is different than just shrinking an image as it gets cropped to a square during the process rather than retaining its original aspect ratio.

So, if you are looking for a simple method to create avatar’s or resize images this is definitely a service that I would recommend!

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