Not surprisingly, I get this question a lot.

You can resize your digital photos in almost any image editing program. In Corel Paint Shop Pro, for example, choose Image, Resize and specify the width or height of the photo (whichever is the larger dimension) as 640 and then click OK. If you use Adobe Photoshop Elements, you can resize the photo by choosing Image, Resize, Image Size.

Microsoft offers an Image Resizer Power Toy for Windows XP that adds a Resize command right to the context menu. Just right-click a picture and choose Resize Pictures to do it within Windows.

Rename Digital Camera Files

Often, my digital camera starts numbering my pictures from scratch, so they have the same file names as images already on my computer. Arghhhh!
--Josh Lenglinger, Leo, Indiana

I feel your pain, Josh--it's really annoying when that happens.

Most of the time, it's because you reformatted the camera's memory card rather than just erasing the pictures you just downloaded. If you stop formatting the card, I think you'll find that the camera won't reset the picture file names back to "001." If that doesn't fix the problem, try diving into the camera's menu system and check for a setting that controls the picture file names.

If all else fails, remember that you can download your photos to a fresh folder, where they won't conflict with the existing pictures. Then in Windows Explorer, select View, List and click the icon for the first file. Hold down the Shift key and select the icon for the last file, then right-click the icon for the first file and choose Rename. Select only the name, leaving the extension (".jpg" or ".raw" or ".tif") alone. Type in a descriptive name and establish the starting number in parentheses as in this example: 06 Summer Vacation (1). Press Enter, and Windows will rename and add a sequential number to each photo.