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Re-sizing photos using Paintshop Pro
Reducing the size of photos is easy using Paintshop Pro, we're going to start off with this photo.

This is currently sized 272 x 181. The first thing you need to do is INCREASE the number of colours up to 16 million. Open your picture in Paintshop Pro and select "Colours" then "Increase Colour Depth", at the bottom of the menu that appears is an option that says 16 million colours, if it is greyed out then you're okay because you're picture is already 16 million colours, if it's black then click on it.

Now the image is 16 million colours we can change the size, place your cursor anywhere over the image and look in the bottom right corner of your screen. You'll see the size of the image. Make a note of this, my example above is 272 x 181.

Select "Image" then "Resample" NOT resize, a box will appear with two sizes in it. What you need to do is try and reduce your image by exactly half, or a quarter etc, not strange sizes. In my case I'm going to reduce it by half, so my two sizes are 136 and 91. This gives this image.

Another resample down to 68 x 45 gives me this....

Re-sizing photos for use on banners
To get a photo to display small enough for use on a banner is easy enough, but first of all you've got to get rid of all the unwanted detail. Open your photo, increase the colours to 16 million as above, then select the "Selection" tool (it looks like a dotted rectangle, third from left on the middle tool bar), click where you want to start cutting and hold down the mouse button, then pull the rectangle around the area you want. When you've done this select "Edit" then "Copy", then "Edit" then "Paste" and finally "As New Image", you'll then see a new picture with the unwanted details cut. Here's mine.....

Note how I've now got rid of all the spare space around the cup, now simply select "Image" then "Resample", in the RIGHT hand size box put "40" and select okay. Now I've got this.

Finally, select "Colours" then "Decrease Colour Depth" and select "256 Colours", then save the file as a GIF file.

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