+bmeux Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 Is there a way to compress or reduce the size of digital photos after they have been taken so they can be posted to the website. I have taken several photos that are about 500 kb in size. I understand it is appropriate to keep the size under 100 kb for logging purposes. I have figures out how to change the compression size on the camera before the picture is taken, but is there a way to do it on the computer after the photo is taken? I use a pc laptop. Thanks Quote Link to comment
+embra Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 You can upload fairly sizeable files (I think up to several MB) and the geocaching site will re-size it for you. Your upload will go faster, of course, if you have smaller files, so it may in some cases be still worthwhile to downsize. But unless you have honking big photo files, it's usually easiest to just upload whatever you've got and let the machines do our work for us. Don't get even - get odd Quote Link to comment
+jwwphoto Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 I have a utility that I downloaded somewhere on the internet. I do a right click on the photo icon and I can resize it, one file at a time or many at one time. Works great. Jeff Quote Link to comment
+jwwphoto Posted January 6, 2003 Share Posted January 6, 2003 If you can't find the utility, email me. The one that I use is put out there by Microsoft. It is called "ImageResizerPowerToy". jeff@jeffwaldrop.com Quote Link to comment
+bradtwurst Posted January 7, 2003 Share Posted January 7, 2003 I use IrFanView. It has a batch conversion/rename feature. Under the advance options, their is a spot to resize pictures. It is free. Use google.com to search for it. jb Quote Link to comment
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted January 7, 2003 Share Posted January 7, 2003 You can Increase,decrease,crop,retouch,and all that good stuff in there. When all else fails Geotry again. Quote Link to comment
pdumas Posted January 7, 2003 Share Posted January 7, 2003 Place camera in e-mail mode. Quote Link to comment
+Web-ling Posted January 8, 2003 Share Posted January 8, 2003 I use Microsoft Photo Editor, which comes with Microsoft Office. I crop the photo, then save with a slightly lower "quality factor." Quote Link to comment
scuba_dog2 Posted January 12, 2003 Share Posted January 12, 2003 I am using Adobe Photoshop, and it works wonderfully for that. It costs a lot, so I'm sure you would not be interested in buying it. Well over $500.00 U.S. dollars. But, if you can't resize using any of the software the other people suggested, I would be happy to resize, or reduce them for you. Just send me an email, and I'll do it. aNOSPAMorr@mac.com Take the "NOSPAM" out of the address please to email me. -Andy ------------------- www.rc-xb-70.com/geo/ Quote Link to comment
+glenn77 Posted January 16, 2003 Share Posted January 16, 2003 I am new to this site but have been doing digital photography and computer graphics for a number of years. I know there are many free or shareware programs out there to resize and convert graphics images. However, there are also many powerful graphics programs which are also very inexpensive! After getting one, I can assure you that you will wish you had had one all along! One excellent program for converting many graphic file types, resizing images, cropping images, doing overlays, etc. is Photo Studio by Arcsoft. The last version (Vers. 3) I bought was under $40. Another indispensable graphics handling program is Thumbs Plus by Cerious Software, which I have also used for years. It is excellent for tracking images (& other special files) on your computer, as well as making thumbprints for quick locating, for batch resizing & photo editing, for printing image catalogs, and for printing custom photo albums, and for computer slide show viewing. I believe my last version (Vers. 4) ran about $35. Other general info: most newer digital cameras will allow you to take the initial photos in various levels of JPEG compression. For most computer viewing purposes (& for emailing), I recommend a setting of under 1.2 Megapixels at medium JPEG compression, so that the digital photos average about 250KB initially. I usually re-crop them, resize them, and sometimes even increase the JPEG compression with a lower Quality Percentage (under 80%) if I want them to be under 50KB to quickly upload for emailing. One other note: I have mentioned only JPEG format, as it is the best for emailing compressed color images. The bitmap images (with .BMP extensions) created with Microsoft Paint are not compressed---the good quality 250KB JPEG images with average compression would be about 3 MB in bitmap format!! One can convert also to another popular web page and emailing format called GIF-- it is a good format for sending B/W and also color graphics drawings & charts (not good for photos). If you want to provide high quality compressed images to Macintosh users, you can convert the image to TIFF format. Well, I wanted to share some of what I have picked up over time in handling computer graphics, and I hope I didn't bore you but hope this info is useful to those of you new to computer graphics. Regards to All, Glenn Bellaire, TX Quote Link to comment
Mossy Oak Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 I had this same questions several month ago. My anwser was Easy Thumbnail, a free download, very easy just import your photo (700-900kb) resize fron 400pic to 75 pic compress .jpg's to 70-80%, You will have the same quality as what you starded with but have a photo less than 100 kb to post. Here's he site. http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/index.html?2.53 Quote Link to comment
+happycycler Posted January 18, 2003 Share Posted January 18, 2003 I also use http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/. Quote Link to comment
zdv Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 I've been using the ImageMagick tool called 'convert' for awhile, which runs on both Unix and Windows. On my Linux system it was pretty easy to construct a script to auto-thumbnail large batches of images. This tool is free and available at www.imagemagick.org. Just another option for those of you who like command-line tools! Quote Link to comment
+DBleess Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 You might also try Paint Shop Pro, I use .jpg format with 15% compression for my Geocache stuff. I resize until I get my filesize to within limits. For my own page stuff, I use my own judgement based on the detail I want and the webspace I have. SAMPLES: http://members.cox.net/dmbleess/geocache/ http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=ab4095 www.jasc.com PSP is another one of those advanced graphics and photo manipulation software programs, but once you get the hang of the basics of it, it's very useful. Quote Link to comment
+WVDan Posted February 2, 2003 Share Posted February 2, 2003 When you up load your pictures from the camera to your computer, if you just resize the picture from 24 by what ever to 6 by 4, that should reduce the size to a more resonable number. Quote Link to comment
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