sc hobbies Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 Hello everyone, I need help (or I need to read the manuals) I was playing around with my photo editor, I use Corel at work so that is what I use with photos, on a few pics messing around with sharpness and brightness and I took what was around 70k and when I finished with what turned out to be a very close represntation of the actual figure, I had a monster 655K file at screen size. This being over the 100K max upload for most places, I don't want to send the 70K one and get bad reviews. What do I do to make the large file smaller and not lose the quality? Thanks Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kheprera Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 Hmm, I'd have to see the actual picture to give you ideas. Check the size first. You can reduce the size it shows on the screen and that will make it a smaller file. To do this I'd try sharpening it first, then reducing, as reducing a picture will cause a bit of fuzziness. Check the file type. Is it a jpg or gif? Both of those will save as smaller files. A tif or "photoshop" file will save as quite larger. Crop the photo. If there's a lot of background space, you don't want that detracting from the mini itself. Crop so there's just a little bit of space around the mini. That will reduce your file space as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stern Kestrelmann Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 This is a problem I often face myself. I usually end up with a pic of around 180-225KB when I'm done. I've been re-saving it through my photo shop (WIN 98), it reduces the KB size of the image to under 100KB, but I often end up with a loss of picture quality (i.e. orangish color tone) I've concluded two things. 1) I need my own site to post images 2) I need to try and light mini properly, so that enhancing the photo is not that crucial to portraying the image digitally. note to self- I still need to talk to Morg about posting some images at his site... SK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kheprera Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 Quick question. Are you using a digital camera or scanning photos? If scanning, don't scan the image at 100% but to the size you want it to end up in the end result. You'll get better quality. For digitals, I'll let Ivy or someone field that since I've never personally uploaded from a camera. I've only downloaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc hobbies Posted January 18, 2003 Author Share Posted January 18, 2003 Aryanun, I ended up with that file size after cropping and resizing. It is on my website on the frontpage at: http://smchobbies.tripod.com I was real happy with the photo but am unable to put it on yahoo or any other place to readily share. I will still play with it and see what I can do. Thanks for the help. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kheprera Posted January 18, 2003 Share Posted January 18, 2003 Well, the image you had on the page was a lot bigger in actual size. I resized and did a little bit of cropping at the top and it's now about 85KB You can get it Here In Adobe Photoshop you can save a jpg at varying clarity. I saved it at max and still managed to get it in under 100KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc hobbies Posted January 18, 2003 Author Share Posted January 18, 2003 Aryanun, Thanks for the help. I think that I will do like Stern says and focus on taking better pics with a better set up so that I don't have to edit them so much. I just had time on my hands at work and was trying to figure this stuff out. Thanks Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusoe the Painter Posted January 18, 2003 Share Posted January 18, 2003 First off, Jpeg is fine if used for web files, and some things are observed. 75% quality level works just fine for JPGS. I store all my images at that resolution, and I rarely see any graininess, or anything. 75% quality shrinks a 1-2 megabyte ( a photo scanned at 100-120 dpi, ending at about 600x600) file to 60k or so. Be sure you use Jpeg to save your file, and that it's set to 75% quality setting. Another note, the quickest way to color correct a scan or image is to use the "levels" control. This is available in Photoshop and Gimp. Use the "auto" feature to quickly clean up color in an image, then adjust further. I've never had problems with saving Jpegs causing the colors of the file to shift. I'd suspect a bug in the software in that case. -Daniel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niceman Posted January 20, 2003 Share Posted January 20, 2003 I use photoshop myself...it's the best all around I've used to date. I have to agree with Crusoe regarding resolution. If you're not needing to print your pics out, then don't have them at 300dpi. The human eye can only register about 72dpi so if you're just going to look at 'em on the screen then that will be just fine and save a lot of space too. Also don't worry about having huge dimensions. Not everyone had 1024 x 768 screens so it's best to go for the lowest common denominator: 640 X 480. When the web company I build sites for from time to time makes a page they do it to those dimensions and the graphics on those pages are of course smaller than that. Using a medium quality jpg at 72dpi at say 300 x 200 will give you a good sized image that looks great on the screen and I'd be surprised if it's larger than 60k. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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