New laptop

[Wendy]

We just got a new laptop...a Lenovo G700. Our old laptop crashed as the tech was scanning it for virus etc before he transferred our photos, documents and favourites. Luckily I had most everything saved on a thumb drive so we only lost about 8 months of photos.

Anyway....the new machine has Windows 8 (upgraded to 8.1) It's all pretty confusing but learnable (is that a word?) except for the photo program. I no longer seem to have the ability to resize or manipulate photos from my camera so unless I can find out how to resize them, they are way too big to post on the 'net. Can anyone help me with this? Is there a good program that I can download (preferably a free one) or is there something already existing in Windows 8 that I just haven't found? Please keep in mind that I don't understand technical talk...has to be layman's terms. LOL!
Thanks!

 

[phraggy]

Hi. Congrats on your new laptop. I find Picasa exceptionally good for uploading pics from your camera, It is free and you can play around with the pics as much as you like including resizing. Also very easy to post on forums.
I found 8.1 a bit confusing at first but now I've got it doing the things I want.
Best of luck which ever programme you use
Ed

 

[troy]

I don't know all the programs, I can just recommend to not use tapatalk!! Lol..

 

[mrhappyrotter]

A word of caution. Lenovo recently has been involved in a fairly substantial scandal for adding some preloaded software called Superfish on consumer models of their laptops. While they maintained Superfish was only there to assist user's online shopping experience, it is in fact, nothing more than adware (a class of malware). To make things worse, the software introduces a significant security vulnerability, that leaves your computer wide open for attack (basically, the door to every Lenovo can be opened with the same key), and 6+ months after claiming they took care of the problem and were no longer including Superfish in the preloaded software, new buyers are still reporting that it's installed on their computers. You can find lots more info online, but a quick run down is here.

So, #1 ... I don't know if your model was one of the computers that Lenovo infected, and I don't know if you've heard of any of this before, but please take a moment to look around the Lenovo site and/or read through the Superfish uninstall proccess at http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish_uninstall

Now on to the topic du jour:

If you want free, try Gimp. http://www.gimp.org/ I wouldn't call it simple, but it's got a lot of features.

If you want free and more basic, try Paint.net. http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

Also note that if bandwidth/data limit/internet connection isn't the issue, then most of the major image hosting services (Imgur, Picasa, ImageShack, etc) have built in resizing capabilities. You upload full size, then you can select lower resolution versions to "share".

 

[mormodes]

We just got a new laptop...a Lenovo G700. Our old laptop crashed as the tech was scanning it for virus etc before he transferred our photos, documents and favourites. Luckily I had most everything saved on a thumb drive so we only lost about 8 months of photos.

Anyway....the new machine has Windows 8 (upgraded to 8.1) It's all pretty confusing but learnable (is that a word?) except for the photo program. I no longer seem to have the ability to resize or manipulate photos from my camera so unless I can find out how to resize them, they are way too big to post on the 'net. Can anyone help me with this? Is there a good program that I can download (preferably a free one) or is there something already existing in Windows 8 that I just haven't found? Please keep in mind that I don't understand technical talk...has to be layman's terms. LOL!
Thanks!

Try Irfanview http://www.irfanview.com (free)

 

[ALToronto]

Fotor is actually not bad if all you want to do is resize. You can find it in the Microsoft Store, if it's not already loaded on your computer. Very simple to use (and free!), but only in the graphic 8.1 mode. You will use a lot less data if you resize the photos on your computer before uploading them to a sharing site.

 

[Wendy]

A word of caution. Lenovo recently has been involved in a fairly substantial scandal for adding some preloaded software called Superfish on consumer models of their laptops. While they maintained Superfish was only there to assist user's online shopping experience, it is in fact, nothing more than adware (a class of malware). To make things worse, the software introduces a significant security vulnerability, that leaves your computer wide open for attack (basically, the door to every Lenovo can be opened with the same key), and 6+ months after claiming they took care of the problem and were no longer including Superfish in the preloaded software, new buyers are still reporting that it's installed on their computers. You can find lots more info online, but a quick run down is here.

So, #1 ... I don't know if your model was one of the computers that Lenovo infected, and I don't know if you've heard of any of this before, but please take a moment to look around the Lenovo site and/or read through the Superfish uninstall proccess at http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/superfish_uninstall

Now on to the topic du jour:

If you want free, try Gimp. http://www.gimp.org/ I wouldn't call it simple, but it's got a lot of features.

If you want free and more basic, try Paint.net. http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

Also note that if bandwidth/data limit/internet connection isn't the issue, then most of the major image hosting services (Imgur, Picasa, ImageShack, etc) have built in resizing capabilities. You upload full size, then you can select lower resolution versions to "share".

Thank you. Luckily we had heard about it and made sure this laptop was clean of that problem. Nice of you to point it out though.

Thank you everyone.