Picture problems

Re: Picture problems

Dan Donaldson

>Send me one of the originals (right out of the camera) and I will take a look at it. Can you explain what software you are using, what steps you tried and the original size of the picture?

Re: Picture problems

ThomD

>I almost always have to crop a photo to get it down to the right size file. Also certain subjects and backgrounds seem to require more bits to record.

Freeware that will help *LINK*

Steve Elliott

>I had the same problem, and was not able to get good image quality in small files using Photoshop. It turned out that a freeware program called IrfanView did a MUCH better job.

Irfanview can be downloaded for free from the link below. I start with my images in a non-lossy format like TIFF and do all the resizing and editing in Photoshop, then put the TIFF into Irfanview and save it as a JPEG at a quality level of about 75 percent. The result is much better than the JPEGs I get from Photoshop.


IrfanView Site

Re: Picture problems

paul womack

>I have a sony cyber-shot digital and try as I might I can't get the pics down to the 4KB size limit.

The for WC upload is 40K, not 4K - that should be easier!

From the FAQ:

In order to use WoodCentral�s file upload feature, images must be limited to 40K in size (now 80 Kb on the Turning forum).

The FAQ also describes some technique for achieving this.

BugBear

Here's another way to resize pics. *LINK*

Derek Cohen (in Perth Australia)

>Mark

This is what I do.

1. Crop as much of the unnecessary area as possible using any photo program (I use Photoshop Essentials, a cut down of the full Photoshop program).

2. Save the picture as a .jpg file.

3. I then import the picture into a Word document, and save this as a .html file.

4. Now go to Windows Explorer (I am assuming you are using a PC). You will find that there is a folder associated with the file you saved, and in this are two picture files, one the original size of the original picture (say 900 kb) and the other will be tiny (about 15 kb).

5. Return to the saved (but still open) html document in Word and increase the size of the picture, then save it again. You will discover that this has increased the size of the smaller associated file in Windows Explorer. And you can keep increasing/decreasing the size of this picture until you get close to 40 kb.

6. All this increasing/decreasing in Word is worth the effort since you will find that all the fine detail in the large, original picture will be retained by the smaller picture - which is the point of this exercise since reducing a picture is easy - reducing it and retaining detail is another matter.

This method works very well. I use it regularly to reduce about 6Mb down to 40kb. See the link below for an example.

Regards from Perth

Derek


Triple picture (as an example)

More freeware... *LINK*

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>This is the one I use. It's very user friendly.


PIXresizer

Thanks all

Mark Kuzee

>Looks like I need to do more PC work.

Another freeware program that is excellent *LINK*

Andrew F in Australia

>Hi All,

This is one of the best photo resizing programs I've come across - type in the required size of the finished file and it does it.

Cheers,

Andrew


http://software.macek.cc/resampler.php

easy resizer from Microsoft

Mike Swindell

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

Half way down the page on right hand size. Once downloaded, you right click on the picture and it lets you resize to 4 different sizes. Easiest S/W that I've seen from Bill Gates!