Converting pics to JPG files

Roy Ayres · Post by **Roy Ayres** » 29 Jan 2009 8:38 pm

I know this topic has been discussed a number of times, but I didn't know if you guys knew that Microsoft's "Paint" program will do the conversion. Simply open the file in its native format in Paint then SAVE AS a JPG file.

Ken Lang · Post by **Ken Lang** » 29 Jan 2009 9:19 pm

And in the opposite manner, I have had some JPG files that would not open for some reason but I could open them in Paint.

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 29 Jan 2009 11:09 pm

Paint is a very basic graphics program and should not be confused with a modern graphics editor. It will not "optimize" your images when saving them and lacks many common tools used everyday to retouch images.

Bo Borland · Post by **Bo Borland** » 31 Jan 2009 6:02 am

MY PC came with microsofts Picture It software. It's intuitive, easy to use to manipulate photos and it has a "save as" for email/web that reduced the resolution and size to something very easy to send /receive.
For those folks that are still on dial up it is critical to send smaller size pix.