Archive for the ‘Photos’ Category


Picture Icons changed

Dear Computer Lady, All of a sudden the pictures in my “pictures folder” are icons of a cat with legs sprawled out. How can I get my pictures to show again without opening each one directly? Arlene

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Take Pictures Out of Programs

Dear Computer Lady, I have pictures in Zoom browser and an adobe photo album and I would like to put them in the same file with all my pictures. I can’t seem to figure out how they let me do that. I can copy them but they are still there in the other files. I [...]

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How To Make Photos Smaller

Dear Computer Lady, How do you make the very small photos for profile photos.I can resize in my photo program, Picasa, but when you click on the photo, it appears very large. I would like to make it small and keep it small. Thanks, Frances

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Putting Photos in Order

Dear Computer Lady, I have Vista Home Premium and have been scanning my children’s photos in preparation to putting on a disc. Is it possible to change the order of my photos to arrange them in chronological order? I have been going around in circles and getting nowhere. Hoping you can help me. Thanks Elaine.

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Sending Photos in Outlook Express

Dear Computer Lady, I read your tutorial on “How to send pictures by email”. I followed your instructions successfully reaching the final step using Windows XP. Everything loaded just as you instructed except there is no “SEND” button on the email page which Windows xp provided via Outlook. It would seem that your instructions fell [...]

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Archiving Photos

Dear Computer Lady, I have about 1000 digital pictures on my computer. Some are simply irreplaceable. I don’t wish to have them printed, but would like to preserve them on CDs. Which CD is best to use? I heard that, over time, pictures can be lost if certain CDs are used. Thank you in advance, [...]

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Pictures Not Opening

Dear Computer Lady, I look forward to your email each week. You have helped me many times via another’s question and your answer. Thank for helping us. I clicked some things trying to get my computer to run faster. I have accomplished that, but now anytime I try and open a picture of any format, [...]

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Change Photo to Black & White

Dear Computer Lady, How can I change a color picture that is in “my pictures” into a black and white picture? Thanking you in advance for your time and attention, Helen

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Email Photos

Dear Computer Lady, I have a question and hope you can help me. I have a digital camera I use quite a bit and I usually use the highest megabytes when I take pictures. My question is how can I send them in the email without them taking so long for me to upload and [...]

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Reduce Photo Size

  Dear Computer Lady, A friend of mine gave me as a gift, a cd full of wonderful photos she had taken of a very special occasion I was involved in. I finally managed to download a program so that I could see them, but when I try to send the photos to anyone, (even [...]

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