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CanonA75 - Image Editor?

I recently bought a Canon A75 and must admit I have soooooo much to learn it scares me.

I've spent the last few days trying to figure out how the heck to make my pictures smaller before I email them, and am getting so confused.

I open up the ZoomBrowser EX and click on "View and Modify", then click on Edit Image, then a message pops up that says "No image editor could be run. You may select a default image editor through Preferences on the Tools menu."

Then I go up and click on Tools, then I click on Preferences. Then I click on Image Editor. But both boxes are empty. (I know I probably sound really really dumb, but that's okay. I am just sooo lost.)

I have never even heard of an image editor until this week.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Shouldn't there already be an image editor somewhere with this ZoomBrowser?

H-E-L-P.......please. I have no idea what to do at this point.

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I should also mention what happens when I try to attach pictures directly from my email account.

I'll go to 'create mail', then I'll click on Insert, then on File Attachment. A screen then appears with all my photos in it. If I click on a photo, then it will be attached. However, most of the pictures are huge (approx. 700 KB).

If I right click on the photo, it takes me to "Paint". Then I can click on Image, and then on Attributes, and can change the size of the pic (either inches, or pixels). BUT, what happens is that the picture is NOT a smaller version, but just a smaller area is shown. Does that make sense?

For instance, if the original picture had 10 people in it, but changing the size of the picture, I don't end up with a smaller version of the original picture. I just end up with a smaller portion of the picture (e.g. only 3 of the 10 people).

I'm just sooooo confused. Any suggestions?

Tx.

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Marie,
Are you using Windows XP? If so, I use what Microsoft call a "powertoy" image resizer. When you right click a photo it adds an option in properties to allow resizing in 3 different sizes. Even if you choose the largest size it will still only end up at around 150KB, still easily emailable. This can be downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...ppowertoys.mspx

They're listed the right hand side of the page

I hope this helps

Paul

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Thanks for the reply, Paul. I'm just checking the board now, but it's really late here (1:30 am) so I'll check the site out tomorrow when I'm more awake.

Thanks again.
p.s. I have windows xp.

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Should I download the powertoy image resizer even though I have the ZoomBrowser thingy? Sorry, but I really am clueless about this stuff.

I should also mention that I can click on a picture and choose small, medium, or large, but I find that the pictures are still too large. I'd like to make them about a quarter of the smaller size.

I have a couple hundred pictures that I took at a wedding and am hoping to mail pictures to many different people (sometimes just one pic, but sometimes 30 or so).

Is there a way I can just change a setting so that every picture I have downloaded is smallish? (It seems that most of them want to be 8x11 in.)

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

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Marie,
Yes, the image resizer works differently to the Zoombrowser and is not related at all. You use the image resizer when you're viewing your photo's in a folder or on your desktop etc, not when you have them open in a different program, eg My pictures folder. This is handy for 1 or 2 images but not for many.
Do you have Photoshop ? Under the file menu there is a batch processing option that is hand for doing many files at once. Suggested directions are;
select file - batch processing
select source folder - where your pics are stored
convert file type - jpg
tick convert image size - say 500 pixels
tick constrain proportions
select destination folder - where you want the new files saved
click OK to begin

hopefully this will work for you
Paul

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