It’s the first of these three that I want to choose, so I do so and click. You can see that my choices are “Paint”, “Photos” or “Windows Photo Viewer”. Here’s my example, using a photo still from an early Godzilla movie: Look for “Open With” and it’ll show you all the programs you have installed that have said they can deal with the JPG (or PNG) image you’re working with. To start, right-click on the image file that’s on your Desktop and you’ll see a menu full of choices. To resize any image or picture file, the tried and true “Windows Paint” application works just dandy.

Kinda daft, really, but if you want to adjust the color, contrast, or apply some fancy adjustments to your photos before you resize them, “Photos” is the app of choice. There’s an easy solution for resizing images in Windows, whether you’re running Windows 7 or the more modern Windows 8, but there’s a trick to it because by default images are opened up in the “Photos” app and that has some editing capabilities but doesn’t seem to know how to resize images. Me? I seem to have friends who don’t pay attention to this sort of thing so when they share photos with me, those photos are HUGE and I end up having to resize them to even see what they’re about. I’m so impressed at how considerate you are, wanting to resize your photographs before you share them with friends and family.

How to resize pictures on windows