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Resizing by Software on Your Own Computer

If the pictures are too big for even our auto-resize software to handle, then you will need to do something about that - you will need to resize them one way or another.

Even if they can be handled by the resizing software, you may actually prefer to resize them yourself before uploading them anyway.  This gives a far quicker upload.

There are two ways to do this.

In the next section, we describe to you a neat little Windows Extension that will resize for you in just two mouse-clicks!  Here, we are just going to give you the gist of using a computer program to resize on your own machine.

Until we introduced the auto-resize code on the site, this was the only way to use large pictures on the Discussion Board.  It's still the method-of-choice for the board administrators, and there are advantages to doing it this way, for example:-