MG Forum Help - How to make banners and pictures smaller for sigs & avatars

How to make banners and pictures smaller for sigs by revvinon

I use a program called Irfanview www.irfanview.com which is a free download to resize all my pictures.
Open the picture file in Irfanview then click on Image:



Then click on Resize/Resample which will open up the resize dialog box:



Make sure the "Preserve Aspect Ratio" is checked then it will keep the image proportionate so it will not distort the image. Irfanview also has a neat feature called "Sharpen" which helps define the image a bit more if it looks blurry try sharpen:



When you find the size that works for your image and it looks good just click File>Save As and place it into a folder/area where you can find it easily and then you can upload the picture online and link to it. Also you may want to save your images as file type .jpg or .gif as these seem to be the ones that work best in the forum.

Good luck and if you still have questions - please ask in the HELP ME! forum.