I think I should have explained that there are two different things - i.e. file size and picture dimensions. A picture that has file size of 1,831,690 bytes (which is quite a big file) probably also has large dimensions & should be quite a good picture. However, if it's file size is taken down to 60 bytes, it will certainly look terrible. What you should be aiming at is taking the file size down to about 60kb - i.e. 60 kilobytes, which is not 60, but 60,000 bytes. 2. It a picture still looks bad at 60kb, or is too big for you screen, you probably needed to first reduce the picture dimensions - which are not the same thing as the file size. Pictures from digital cameras are often quite big - e.g my camera gives pictures with dimensions of 2048 x 1536 pixels - far too big to fit on my computer screen. A good size for Hortiplex & for most computer screens is a picture 800 x 600.. Irfanview (mentioned by Carol) is a very good program for doing this. When you try it all again, I suggest you first use Irfanview to change the picture dimensions to 800 x 600 & save it at Irfanview's 'best' quality. This will probably still be stored as a file way above 60kb, but it should be considerably less than 1,831,690 bytes. Then use JPEG Optimizer to compress the file containing this 800 x 600 picture down to 60kb. Herb

Hello... Thanks for trying to help me out. I actually had someone tell me I could get the photo removed by tinypic and I decided to try. Sure enough, I used their contact email form on their site and they responded right away. They asked for the address of the photo which was under properties and within about 15 minutes it was off of the thread. Just thought someone in the same boat might like to know that at some point. Bob...when I said I was viewing it and it was not too large and the text was not scrolling, I meant I was going to the thread on my firefox browser and looking at it. I still am not understanding why so many other people on the thread were trying to look at it and were seeing a very large photo and it had effected the text to the point that they had a scroll bar at the bottom of the page and had to scroll to the right to read the text. But rest assured, that I didn't intend to post that large of a photo. The tinypic site never used to offer a choice of sizes that I noticed and now they do and it was set at default, which was too large. So from now on, I will make sure it is set at a smaller size. Someone on the thread suggested, maybe I didn't put enough space between the two photos and it was attempting to put the two photos side by side and that is why the text had to be scrolled. Which still doesn't explain why I didn't have to. I still wonder if it is my screen resolution. At this point, the problem is solved, I guess I am just curious. :-) I checked the options for the Firefox browser and I don't see a checkbox that you describe that automatically resizes graphics on the browser page. But, I am getting a new computer soon and hopefully I will have fewer browser problems after that. Yes, I am aware of photobucket and just haven't wanted to store my photos online. I may at some point but can't right now. Thanks for the free Irfanview program link. Looks very useful! Thanks... adam :-)

Microsoft drops Digital Image Suite I not sure exactly what you are trying to do. I'm thinking you could find your pictures in Kodak EasyShare, click Edit\Select All, right click a photo\copy, then go find My Documents\My Pictures and paste them. At least you would know the photos are in My Photos. You don't need EasyShare to transfer photos from camera to computer. Most advise against installing software that comes with a camera. Once you get all the photos removed from Kodak EasyShare, you can go to the control panel and remove the program. PhotoBucket is just an online place to store photos. Don't know what the zig-zag is, and have no idea about a window that says to restore them or whatever or the little picture of a "lost" one. Anyway, I think you're going to need to learn how to transfer photos from camera to computer (if this is what you're trying to do) without using third party software, because they'll save them in hard to find places.

i downloaded irfanview and all plugins. i resized a jpeg and it did it but it uses paintbrush or paint and saves the resized image as a bmp extention not a jpeg. when i tried to upload the resized file it was refused because the file is not valid.... ie not jpeg. :( :( so now i am wondering if i should uninstall this product as it is not doing what i want. IMPORTANT question - when i installed irfanview a window appeared asking about associations. i did not know what to do as all associations were NOT checked and i figured it made sense to use these associations so it knows how to open files with different extentions. so i clicked on select all. the next window then asked, and this is the issue, "You want to change current associations and to associate one or many file types with IrfanView! Are you REALLY sure?" that is an exact quote i did not add ! or caps. so i worried about the current wording and when it capitalized really, well i said no. it accepted that. so i assume i ended up with the same thing as if i did not check select all and left all boxes unchecked. should i have gone with select all and replied yes? i was afraid this might cause conflicts with other programs and their functions. not sure what to do. any suggestions? remember win 98 se did all this in mozilla browser. thanks, tom