Anyone know the widest I can use without getting that "this image has been resized" bit? 800?
I like using photoshop if it's installed (go to file>save for web) It lets you resize really quick and lower the quality setting so you can fit more pics your albums.
IrfanView is a free shareware with easy picture resizing ..pics seem to upload easier for me if I resize them first..the IC resizer has been crashing on me lately
There's a ton of free apps out there just for this purpose. If you have XP, like mentioned above, use tweakui from the XP Power Tools set. There's a clone for windows 7 available there somewhere.
These tools are nice, since you can feed them an entire directory structure, and everything is done automagically.
The magic numbers I use are no more than 800x1000 to have it fit auto without the resize caption at the top of photos
In photoshop elements I save through >file and then click >save for web
I change the first box to jpeg and the second box to 20% to get small files with ok quality. The third box down is for the resize part. I change which ever number is bigger down to a number that fits- if the horizontal is bigger, it goes down to 800, if the vertical is lower change it to 1000. In this picture the height was bigger so I used 1000 and it scaled the width to down to 700 automatically.
click apply and save away. this one was 72.k file size @ 700x1000 and will fit well. 50-100k is an alright file size imo and saves room for more pics and helps pages load faster.