>I am trying to create a picture for my profile, but once I shrink the pic down it loses a lot of quality and I look worse than I usually do (and that's saying a lot). I am just using Paint in Windows, as I have no other photo editing tools. Anybody know of any good freebies that would work better?
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>Thanks,
>Mike

Paint.NET is a great and free (without almost any restrictions) image editing tool.
http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/

Paint.NET has good resizing features.