Uploading pics - under 100KB?

[Cache Poor]

I am having trouble downsizing my pics to under 100KBs, which is what is required to upload them for the virtual caches. I've been using a 35mm camera, scanning them in, then have to crop them so incredibly that much of the original pic is missing. I also use Adobe Photo Deluxe and save them as the absolute lowest quality in order to reach the goal of <100 KB. BTW, I do not yet own a digital camera and so do not know if that helps lower the size of a pic. Anyone have a better solution?

[Chris00]

What type of file format are you saving them as :

.jpg, .bmp, .gif ...

 

Try changing the format

[Chris00]

What type of file format are you saving them as :

.jpg, .bmp, .gif ...

 

Try changing the format

[+brdad]

Ya, almost seems like it's got to be the format. I have tons of full color pics I've created for desktop pics and such that are 640 X 480 JPGs. Out of the first 100 of those, 85 are below 100K and the largest is 148K. Maybe someone else has Adobe and can help with any settings you may be missing.

 

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[+Markwell]

When you're scanning, only degrade the quality a little, but scan at a lower resolution. Somewhere I heard that around 75 dpi is adequate for scanning to view on screen - but don't quote me. Try the lower resolution first, and then lower the quality.

 

Markwell

Chicago Geocaching

[+leatherman]

I'm not sure what features are the same between the two. However I have a drop down menu under "image". A feature called "image size" is for resizing. I can choose between percentage or pixel size.

Cropping is only to trim out unessisary back ground and to recenter your image.

 

Preperation, the first law to survival.

[+mikemtn]

Try this IrfanView. It's the easiest way I've found that I can resize with my limited computer skills.

 

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[+Lil Devil]

You'll get the biggest bang for your buck, file-size wise, by reducing the bit depth. Especially when reducing from 24 or 32 bit to 8 bit. And often with little or no reduction in quality when viewed on a computer screen.

 

Lil Devil

[Debbily]

crop out anything you don't want, then RESIZE down a bit. JPGs are smaller than BMP files.

[+Markwell]

Also, I've found that you can open a fairly large JPG file in MS Paint (that stinky little program that comes with Windows). From there you can do a "stretch/skew" (Image, Stretch/Skew or Ctrl-W) and resize the image to 75% or 50% of its original size.

 

When the image is resaved as a JPG it uses a higher than normal compression (photo quality goes down a bit), but it will most likely be saved as less than 100K. If not, resize it down some more.

 

It doesn't leave the photos crystal clear, but it gets the job done for getting them below 100K without having to buy additional software.

 

Markwell

Chicago Geocaching

[bk11]

For images I use GIMP. It's free, folks, and it does a lot of the stuff Photoshop does.

 

There's a windows version available now:

http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/

 

You're crazy if you need image editing software and don't give this a go.

 

I'm about a hundred pics behind , but here's my geocaching photolog.

 

My Geojournal: Bump On A Log

**NEW: MN Geocaching Group GEM

[bk11]

For images I use GIMP. It's free, folks, and it does a lot of the stuff Photoshop does.

 

There's a windows version available now:

http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/

 

You're crazy if you need image editing software and don't give this a go.

 

I'm about a hundred pics behind , but here's my geocaching photolog.

 

My Geojournal: Bump On A Log

**NEW: MN Geocaching Group GEM

[+Mr. Snazz]

I use mogrify, part of ImageMagick...

 

mogrify -geometry 576x432 DSC01234.JPG

 

...its actually called from a script which resizes all of my photos, creates thumbnails, and dumps them into my daily photojournal on my website.. but I'm lazy

 

I guess this isn't really helpful. Maybe I should have some coffee

 

[+Mr. Snazz]

I use mogrify, part of ImageMagick...

 

mogrify -geometry 576x432 DSC01234.JPG

 

...its actually called from a script which resizes all of my photos, creates thumbnails, and dumps them into my daily photojournal on my website.. but I'm lazy

 

I guess this isn't really helpful. Maybe I should have some coffee

 

[+Uplink]

The key is to resize your image for screen display. If you are going to print a photo, by all means scan at 300 dpi. However, on the web it will be displayed at 72 dpi not matter what you do, so if you post a photo thats 2000 pixels wide, it will be several screens wide. You should resize to 640x480 pixels or smaller (personally, I make all of my photos 500 pixels wide). For displaying in cache logs, geocaching.com resizes all photos to 300 pixels wide. If you post a photo smaller than that, it will be UPSAMPLED

[+jollybgood]

If you have Photoshop (I use photoshop 6.0 so it may be different on earliar versions) there's a function in the menus called "Save for Web".

 

When you pull it up there's an option called "Output to size". This nifty feature allows you to enter file size you want it outputted to. (I have mine set to the default of 98k) So far this has been the quickest way I've found to consistently get good results.

 

Also, you may search versiontracker.com and other download sites for various shareware utilities designed to do the same thing as a stand alone app. I don't recall the name(s) but before I learned how to do it photoshop I used a few. (I think one was called pixel pipe or something similar.) Some allow you to convert pictures in batches so you can convert an entire photo of digitial photos/scans with the click of a button).

 

Jolly R. Blackburn

http://kenzerco.com