New to the forum and in need of help

[rnrsingle]

Hello all. My name is Ernie, from the backwoods of Tillsonburg Ontario. I've made many of the projects that Steve Good has made available and just love scrolling in my retirement (9 yrs and counting). I'm hoping to post a pic, maybe someone will be able to turn it into a pattern for me. In the pic, I'm in the middle. The first fellow was Mel, I'm Ernie and beside me is Larry. M.E.L. (Mel, Ernie Larry) Mel's B'day was Dec 24, mine is Dec 25 and Larry was Dec 26. I lost M in 1980 and just lost L in Oct 2014. I'd love to scroll the pic if anyone can put it to a pattern for me. Thank you for reading and I apologize for the rambling. The first thing i need to know is how to make the attachment smaller because when I tried to attach it, the message said my picture was too large. Thanks again.

[julief]

Hi Ernie and welcome to the forum.  I'm Julie from Texas.  Glad to have you.

[rnrsingle]

Thank you Julie. Anytime you'd like to trade some of that Texas-sunshine for a truck load of snow let me know...lol. I do envy you and sincerely thank you for the welcoming.

[overfifty]

Hi Ernie. Welcome from Kelowna, B.C. Nice to see another Canuck joining the club. Cheers, Barry.

[Russ C]

Glad you found us and joined Ernie. Russ from Florida here, welcome to the Scrollsaw Forum. 

[pierre62]

Hi Ernie and welcome to the forum.  I'm Pierre from Qu?brec, Cnada.  Glad to have you.

[lanemaux]

Hi Ernie and welcome from beautiful Bruce County , smack dab twixt Walkerton , Kincardine and Lucknow. how's them fer referents. And when you say snow , say it softly , lest we get knackered again.

[Rover2]

Welcome Ernie.  I'm Al from Tennessee.

[Bedford1]

Hello Ernie.  Mike from Colorado.  Welcome and have fun

[gordster]

Welcome Ernie.I'm Gordie from Nova Scotia

[EIEIO]

Welcome Ernie, from Central Ohio.

Steve has an application called Picture Resizer to help reduce the size of the file: (scroll down to find it) http://scrollsawworkshop.blogspot.com/2013/09/super-simple-picture-resizer-for.html. It works well.

He also has a link on his main blog to an on-line RapidResizer function that you can use. I have not tried it.

If you have Microsoft Office, you can right click the photo then select Open With... Microsoft Office. That opens a picture editor that lets you reduce the size.