Scanning Saving Photos Other Vista Discussions Discuss Scanning Saving Photos in the Windows Vista forums; I'm a novice when it comes to modifying photos. I'm currently in the process of scanning all our family pictures, some going back to when I was still ...

[felix8406]

I'm a novice when it comes to modifying photos. I'm currently in the process of scanning all our family pictures, some going back to when I was still a kid...many moons back. I setup the scanner to high resolution to get sharp images. If, after scanning and fixing (cropping and adjusting brightness and so forth) the image and then resize it (minimize its size) will it maintain its high resolution properties, e.g. resizing from 1105 X 1521 pixels to 277 X 281 pixels.

[Snuffy]

There are some 3rd party programs which compress the size, which when uncompressed are the same as you scanned...
The compression in Office 2007 which I use to compress and email is rather good at this. I have several photos taken at 2032 x1524 @ 230dbi x24x2
when I compress them and mail at I send the original size to. or tell them how to resize to full /original. they all have the same which I originally took/scanned them at...

Office 2007, Vista and Paint do a pretty good job. just takes time to do it, so a faster way for me is:

Easy Thumbnails 2.8
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Introduction
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Easy Thumbnails is a handy freeware utility for creating accurate
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popular picture formats. An elegant interface makes it a snap to
find your images and select them for processing individually, in
groups, or in whole folders, using a simple file selector and
built-in image viewer. You can use slider controls to rotate
images and adjust their contrast, brightness, sharpness and
quality, and check out the results with a convenient built-in
viewer.

[felix8406]

Thanks Snuffy.

I have scanned over 400 hundred, and that's a lot considering the cropping, adjusting brightness and the switching between paint and MS Office Picture Manager.

The reason I like to resize them is because it's faster to open, close or search each individual picture. My concern was that by resizing them, I might loose some quality, which might cause a degrading if I try to print them.

[Snuffy]

No, there is no degrading that I know of.
they hold the same quality that you started with...
anyway mine do....