Resizing Pictures for the Web with Shrinkpictures.com

Shrinkpictures.com offers a handy web-based tool for shrinking large digital pictures down to an appropriate size for use on a website.

Shrinkpictures.com offers a handy web-based tool for shrinking large digital pictures down to an appropriate size for use on a website.

It's a simple, convenient, lightweight alternative to using a full-featured image editing program like Photoshop. 

Why might you need to shrink your photos?  Consider that a full-sized image from a modern digital camera can weigh in at over 6 megabytes.  A typical image on a website should be perhaps 50-150 kilobytes (that's about 1/60th as large!).  Without appropriate resizing, your website would quickly become a bloated, slow mess and you'd have some very frustrated website visitors! 

Web designers typically use programs like Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or XNView to resize their images.  But for casual users, these can be a bit overwhelming.  Shrinkpictures.com provides a simpler tool for one-at-a-time use.