Can I right-click to resize images in Windows 11?
QI’ve been a reader for a number of years and have used your tips. I hope you can help me here. I wanted to send an email photo to the hospital, but my image was too big to insert in the email. I tried to reduce the photo but couldn’t get it to fit. I then remembered that there was a time when a right-click could take me to a quick choice of a small, medium and large image but can’t remember where to find it. Has this been lost with Windows 10 and 11?
ANo, it still exists, but you have to use a specific method. In fact, the technique hasn’t changed, but if you haven’t used a feature for a while then it can be difficult to recall how to find it.
In Windows 10, it’s as simple as right-clicking an image and then choosing ‘Send to’ followed by ‘Mail recipient’. In Windows 11, you’ll need to click ‘Show more options’ before you can access the ‘Send to’ submenu. You’ll now see an Attach Files box with a dropdown menu that lets you choose a specific image size (see screenshot).
Note, though, that this method works only to send the resized image to the default ‘desktop’ email app, such as Windows Mail or Outlook. If you use a webmail service, like Gmail, then you can instead make use of a similar feature in Microsoft’s free Powertoys (download it from www.snipca.com/45401).
Once installed, this particular feature of Powertoys is still accessed via a right-click, and then ‘Resize pictures’. However, unlike the built-in Windows method, which automatically attaches the resized image to a new image, the Powertoys method makes a copy of the original file itself, stored in the same location as the original.
You can then attach this in the normal way in the browser window of your chosen webmail service.