Resizing & Uploading Digital Photos

Using the Moba Photo software from the Softpedia website, I resized a number of photos.  Like any digital tools, you need to ensure you read the instructions or options available so that you don’t end up doing something untoward.  With this in mind it was very simple to resize the photos.  I used the option for resizing to upload online.  The storage space for the resized photos was as little as about 5% of the original photo storage space – amazing.  I can see this tool coming in very hand when I do my family tree, as I will be able to insert old pictures of family which are mostly scans from original paintings and photos.  Here is a family photo I resized which was scanned from an original which was 60 cms x 40 cms.  My grandmother's family portrait. 

This type of tool would be very useful in an online environment.  Students could insert visual images as well as graphic organisers to support and reinforce text within spaces.  Because of the substantial reduction in storage space size a large number of images could be used without hindering the speed of the uploading of the space or the navigation within the space.  Hence the English proverb, “a picture paints a thousand words”.

An important point to remember is with using digital photos on material on the internet is ensuring that you upload the images, as opposed to pasting the image in to a tool.  The other issue is to consider the who owns the photo, and do they want the whole world to see it as once it is uploaded on to the web it will be available to the general public.