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Tips on Adding Images to Your WordPress site

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

Is there a maximum or minimum size to use?

To keep the download time to a minimum and to have a good quality image, make sure that your image is no bigger than 500 pixels along the longest edge and no smaller than Here are some free software programs that we have used and find really good. You can use any of these to edit your images. Both require you to download software to your computer.

The Gimp – an Open Source software program that is available online and has many of the same features as Photoshop. Available for Windows, Unix and MacOS X systems.
Cost: Free

Picasa Photo Editing by Google – a free software from Google that allows you to locate and organize photos on your computer. Has simple editing tools to add effects and edit images. Gives you the option to share photos online. Available for Linux & Windows systems – no MacOS version yet.
Cost: Free

For more info on other editing tools visit the About site at Top 8 Free Photo Editors for Windows.