papabees Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 I have a new camera and am very happy with the result of my pics, but they are coming in at around 650kb. I want to be able to post the pics but I need to reduce them to the guideline size of 150kb. Help! I don't know how to change it without just reducing the size and I'm afraid if I do it won't show the detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Java Fiend Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 I have a new camera and am very happy with the result of my pics, but they are coming in at around 650kb. I want to be able to post the pics but I need to reduce them to the guideline size of 150kb. Help! I don't know how to change it without just reducing the size and I'm afraid if I do it won't show the detail. It depends on what software you're using. In general it sounds like you want to either (1) crop the image, (2) resize the image, or (3) do a little of both. Being a cheapskate, I use a nifty little freeware program called IrfanView for my cropping and resizing needs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flit Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 I shoot my pics on the highest resolution that my camera has. I save this on a CD as my master file in case I ever need a larger or high resolution copy. Then I use Photoshop Elements to crop the images as nesssary to focus in on just the mini. At this point you can do any color/contrast fixing you think is necessary. Then I use the "Save for Web" feature. This all by itself is worth the price of the program. It gives you lots of control over how much to compress the image. It gives you a side by side compairison of the original image and the compressed image and gives an estimate of download time on, IIRC a 28 modem. This lets you keep the image true to the original while getting the file size down to something more dial-up and memory friendly. You can also control how many pixles high and wide the image is, so you have an idea of how large the image will be on a computer screen. This is great because I hate having to scroll to see the whole image. I am sure other programs have similar features, but Elements is the one that I am familiar with. I hope that wasn't too incoherent and helps out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusoe the Painter Posted April 28, 2004 Share Posted April 28, 2004 Most browsers run at 800x600, so any image size over that is overkill. Finally, the low resolution of the monitor, you can get away with 65% quality or even less. Also, you can crop out the part of the image you don't need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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