You are going to need to get a program that can modify the image. I use
Paint Shop Pro to resize images. There are other programs.
I recently had to do this for a friend so that he could post to a Real
Estate page.
Fly......
James N. Dawson wrote:
>
> Hello friendly people at Tech Support for Dummies:
>
> I would like to change the photo in my yahoo group profile, AND put one
> in another, non-yahoo forum. (I hope this new one will be a little less
> geeky.)
>
> First order of business would be the non-yahoo forum---
> www.veganfitness.net. It specifies on the profile update page that the
> photo/image size must be 100 pixels wide, 120 pixels high, and no
> larger than 6 KB. Unfortunately, mine is a whopping 283 KB.
>
> I took it with an eVision MEGApro digital camera, originally uploaded
> it to my downstairs PC, which I THINK runs on Windows 98. I then
> transferred it to my upstairs PC with an internet connection, which
>; runs on a Windows ME operating system
>
> The picture in my present yahoo profile was taken by the same camera
> and similarly transferred. But I wasn't able to upload it to the yahoo
>; forum either so I had my brother tinker with it and he WAS able to do
> it. How, I don't know. I either didn't pay enough attention or I
> wasn't there. Anyway, apparently it CAN be done, at least on yahoo
>; forum profiles. The question is can it be done on Vegan Fitness?
>
> Despite my "please help" in caps and exclamation point, this isn't
>; terribly urgent. Just something I'd LIKE to do.
>
> If somebody's had a similar or identical problem, and it's all been
> explained before, feel free to direct me to the appropriate post on
> this board. But it has to be super-simple and step by step with a
> minimum of jargon---remember, I'm very, very dumb.
>;
> Thanks all. I appreciate your help, now and past!
>;
> James N. Dawson
>
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