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Post by mrbrett on Apr 23, 2004 12:47:18 GMT -5
Can anyone tell me why my pics are so darn big? and how to put more than one pic on the same thread.
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Post by sandsman1 on Apr 23, 2004 12:50:31 GMT -5
i cant tell ya why there so big but when ya put one pic in bring the curser to bottom of pic and hit enter a couple times then click the little box at the top for a pic again and start over
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Post by mrbrett on Apr 23, 2004 13:57:08 GMT -5
Guys and Gals I think I got it fixed! Thanks to Sandman. Last night I bought a digital camera so now "watch out!" I've been taking pictures of everything!(well not everything)HaHa
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Post by sandsman1 on Apr 23, 2004 14:40:25 GMT -5
haha dont thank me brett thank ron he stuck with me for a week till my dumb ass finaly got it hahahaha
THANKS RON
seeya-s ---john
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Post by cookie3rocks on Apr 23, 2004 20:08:44 GMT -5
I know they make disposable digital cameras, would the work? I just can't swing the real thing right now cookie
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Post by sandsman1 on Apr 23, 2004 20:21:25 GMT -5
hey cookie you could get a big box of rocks for what a decent digitle cost get a used scanner thats all i use it does a decent job if i remeber right when i got mine they had some there for like 49.99 new that was about two yrs ago might be cheaper now, check ebay prob get one for 20 bucks ok seeya-s john
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Post by cookie3rocks on Apr 23, 2004 21:00:06 GMT -5
I'll do that. Problem being, I have an old scanner and my brother (who built my comptuer, and is the head of media at GA Tech,) says the older ones are not compatble to this computer But I bet I can find one that is at a good price. Then I'll be begging you guys to help me post pictues! I'm a little upset with ebay right now. Won a bid over a week ago, paid for air born shipping and it's not here yet. It's an anneversary present! cookie
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Post by Original Admin on Apr 23, 2004 21:07:14 GMT -5
Hi Brett.
Ok, heres a couple of points which may help you out.
There are two main issues with "size" regarding digital images. Heres the basic overview.
The first, is "Viewable Size/Pixel Area" - or how much space a pic takes up on the screen. The larger the viewable size, the more space it takes up on the screen - so its handy to reduce the viewable size to an area that most people can see with a standard PC. A pixel area of about 500x500 is a fair base to work with. On a high resolution screen within certain boundaries this takes up about 20% to 25% of the viewable screen - on a lower resolution setting, the person viewing the 500x500 will have more of their physical screen taken up by the picture - eg if a users screen setting was 500x500 resolution (which isnt really available) then the entire screen would be used up to display a 500x500 pixel image. If a users screen were set to 1000x1000, then half the screen would be taken up by the 500x500 image - and so on.
Typical settings for screen size - or "resolution" are 800x600, upwards towards 1280x1024. There are a number of settings inbetween this with various x/y ratios. Some graphics cards allow for higher than this aswell.
At a guess - I think most users lie somewhere between 800x600 and 1280x1024.
The second issue regarding size is "file size". A picture taken on a digital camera is normally stored onboard the camera as a .jpg file. This is a file format which 99.9999% of P.C's can display. The Jpeg file format is designed specifically for compression - not it terms of "displayable area" but "byte size".
You can reduce the amount of disk space a picture takes up by compressing the file - without reducing the displayable pixel area.
At around 25-30% compression - the "quality" of the picture is visibly degraded to a minor extent - very minor to most people looking at it. But at this level a significant number of bytes can be deducted from the total file size - making it faster to email to friends, and faster to download from a webpage.
I use PaintShop Pro to edit the massive images coming in from my camera before uploading them - I take them at full resolution with the camera, then I reduce the viewable size in terms of pixels (say to 500x500) - then I compress them to 25% or thereabouts to reduce the byte size so people can view them faster on dial-up connections.
Just wafflng now. but hope this helps.
Andy.
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Post by mrbrett on Apr 24, 2004 6:39:32 GMT -5
Thanks Andy. I'll give that a shot.
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Post by MichiganRocks on Apr 24, 2004 20:37:51 GMT -5
I just wanted to followup with Andy's post above. I use a dial-up connection and therefore some of the photos being posted are taking forever to download due to their large size. Photos that are 200+ kb are too large to be posting on a web site. I have looked at a lot of the large photos being posted and they don't have any compression at all. A photo 6 or 7 inches wide is sufficient at 72 dpi and 70% compression (or saved as a 3 on a 10 point scale). On a web page, that will be in the 25 to 35 kb range and will look just as good as the 200+ kb photo. Take the photo at high resolution, but post it at low resolution with lots of compression. Like Andy said, that is what jpg was designed to do for you. Make a smaller package for the web without sacrificing quality. If anyone is unsure about how to do this, just give me a shout and I'll try to help. If you're unsure if you are doing it right or not, just look at the size of your picture file. If it is 3 digits (100+ kb), you have a lot of room to reduce. The other good thing about keeping the file sizes down is to keep the file transfers that bring in the photos from bogging down the server and slowing down the whole board. If the board keeps growing and we keep using such large files it will eventually happen. Keep the photos flowing for sure. They are definitely a plus for this board!
Ron
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Post by Bostonpat on May 1, 2004 23:25:00 GMT -5
Here's a link to a FREE, easy to use program that will help you resize your photos. www.irfanview.com/Pat
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Post by creativeminded on May 3, 2004 2:06:25 GMT -5
When I scan or down load my pictures and then modify them slightly, I open them with the paint program that came with my windows xp and go to image and then "Strecth/Skew" and reduce by percentage. It works great. Then I post it to my website.
Tami
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