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i tried shrinking them using paint and it cut the heads off of my pictures my pictures are 2500 by 1500 or something like that and i need to shrink them down to 1200 by 800 without cutting animals heads off and stuff
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kevin
1.1 redtails
0.1 green anacondas
1.1 yellow anacondas
1.1 brazilian rainbow boas
1.1 solomon islands ground boas
1.1 kenyan sand boas
1.1 dumerils boas
0.1 amazon tree boas
1.2 riverside rosy boas
1.1 burmese pythons
1.1 reticulated pythons
1.1 african rock pythons
1.1 blood pythons
0.1 childrens pythons
1.2 ball pythons
1.1 rough scaled sand boas
1.1 bearded dragons
and more to come

You can use Microsoft Paint. There are many other applications that you can use (PhotoShop at www.adobe.com and Fireworks at www.macromedia.com - with both you can get a 30-trial).

If you use MS Paint you open the picture and then select Image on the Paint taskbar, then Strech/Skew change the size there and then resave the picture.
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Bryan, Atlanta GA

1-0-0 Ball Python - Apep
0-1-0 Mountain Horned Dragon - Ki
1-1-0 Rats... no wait... ROTTEN Little Cats - Ra, Bastet
0-1-0 Little Angelic Kitten - Isis
1-0-0 Horse... whoops... BIG Golden Retriever - Jake
0-1-0 Wife
2-0-0 Kids

The easiest software I've used is Microsoft Digital Image Pro. It has a save feature called "Save as a Web Ready picture". After You click on this, it asks you if you want 1/4 screen, 1/2 screen, full screen, or custom. I use full screen. When you select the screen size, the software tells you the file size, and how long it will take to download with a 56K modem. Finally, when you do save the picture, the software automatically renames it from a name like mypicture.jpg, to Webmypicture.jpg. This prevents accidentally saving the low resolution picture over the high resolution original. Oh yeah, it's also a pretty good photo editing program too!
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Lamar, Debbie, Nathaniel and Iggi :>~

i tried shrinking them using paint and it cut the heads off of my pictures my pictures are 2500 by 1500 or something like that and i need to shrink them down to 1200 by 800 without cutting animals heads off and stuff

1200 x 800 is still too large. You have to remember that many people looking at these forums use a screen resolution of 800 x 600. Therefore, your pictures won't fit on the screen.

Have you tried right clicking on the picture file? Some iterations of XP allow you to resize the file directly from there.
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Chris Harrison
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