Whenever I import photos from my camera to the PC, they always load up in huge file sizes and each pic is about 3072 pixels wide - which is too big to view and too big to email out to people.

I have an image resizing software (Irfanview) which I use to resize them all, but this method takes a long time to resize each piture - (say if i have 100 new photos!) then save it as a smaller file.

Is there a setting on digital cameras so that they load up pictures in a smaller resolotion/size?

If you are never going to want higher resolution images, you can reduce the size of the original images taken.

Nearly all cameras will have a setting in the menu to alter this.

What make of camera is it?


Altering existing pictures:
Go to the folder using Windows Explorer
Select and right-click your images
You should see an option for "Resize pictures"
Click and follow instructions.

You can also use Irfanview in 'batch mode' to apply resize/resample to many files at one go. You need to select the Advance Settings dialog to see the options available.

go here and download the powertool image resizer this intergrates into windows then you can just right click on your image and resize in about 2 seconds also supports batch resizing of many photos

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx