Shrinking the size of a Photo

I'm an avid collector of luxury designer handbags. Prada, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Kate Spade, among others. I love them. I'm trying to sell a bunch of them. At work, we have a classified so I posted my bags on the classified but we cannot post pictures. I have pictures of everything so I attempted to put them into a PowerPoint presentation to email people who are interested. The problem: the file is huge because of the size of the photos (they look small but they take up a lot of space). The entire PowerPoint is about 53MB.

Does anybody know how to shrink the size of my photos (the space they would take on my computer)? I really need to get this presentation out to those interested in the handbags!

HELP!!!!

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JoAnne D. May 22, 2008, 8:41am EDT

Hhhhm, try posting here in an article, drag the thumbnails in and print from here. It might work and you will have a complete cataloguing of your items. Besides I would love to see them lol.

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Jenn S. May 22, 2008, 8:56am EDT

I'm interested in maybe buying! Which are you selling and for how much? :)

Sorry I can't help with the photos...

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Kevin (''The SiteWizard'') V. May 22, 2008, 10:12am EDT

Arielle,

Sometimes shrinking the image doesn't also reduce the size of the image, just how it appears.

Do you need to send the images in the Powerpoint presentation, or separately?

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Arielle K. May 22, 2008, 2:26pm EDT

Kevin - I would like to have them in a PowerPoint. I am trying to shrink the size of the file and repost them into the PPT as the smaller sized image so I can send them in the PPT.

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Kevin (''The SiteWizard'') V. May 22, 2008, 2:35pm EDT

Arielle,

Shrinking the images in Powerpoint may not help very much. You should shrink the image in another program and then import them back into your presentation.

If you have image editing software it would help (Photoshop, Picasa, etc.). If not, I can help you locate the best way with what you have.

If you need help, please send me a message or leave a comment on today's HelpCenter™ article.

Good Luck!

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Amy H. May 22, 2008, 2:40pm EDT

I would like to see the photos.

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Arielle K. May 23, 2008, 5:56pm EDT

I ended up uploading them to Facebook and saving them back onto my computer.

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Angela B (There IS a light at the end of the tunnel) May 24, 2008, 6:19pm EDT

If you're using Windows XP you can go to Microsoft and search for "Windows Power Toys." There's an application there that will allow you to right-click on any photo and resize it to standard small sizes for web display, email and the like.

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