How to resize an image using free online tool (Shrinkpictures.com)

Usually when I take a photo -- either using my phone or digital camera -- the photo size is much larger than needed for using in a PowerPoint or -- more importantly -- for postinonline (such as to post in a discussion forum, or on a blog). It's important to resize images so that the file size is small, otherwise it causes the web page to take a long time to load, or makes your PowerPoint file size very large when you include many large photos.

A quick and easy way to resize a picture:

1. Go to http://www.shrinkpictures.com/
2. Follow the prompts to upload a photo from your computer. You can experiment with different image dimensions and resized image quality to see what options best fit your needs.
   Here I show an example of the settings I choose when I resize an image to include it into an online Moodle discussion forum.  These same settings will work other uses, such as to include an image in PowerPoint:
   
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3. You will be taken to a new page showing your resized picture. Above the picture will be a link that says, "Download this picture now." Click on that and download your photo.
4. You can now upload the resized photo into your discussion forum, to insert into PowerPoint, or include wherever else you need a photo that isn't full size.

Have fun!