You have a photograph you want to put on your website or blog, however, the file is too big and you need to shrink the photograph to fit on your page.  How can you get this accomplished without spending hundreds of dollars on sophisticated software such as Adobe Photoshop?

Try GIMP, a free, open source photo editing program (go here for the Window Installer).  This software has more features than Kodak’s EasyShare program or Google’s Picasa.

You can change the ppi (pixels per inch) and scale the image.  Click on Scale Image under the Image menu to find these features.

HINT.  The standard is to use 72 ppis for website images and 300 ppi for printed material.