+Will+Bill Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 I downloaded Google's free Picassa program, and it is great for photo editing. I have also found that it is a wonderful recourse for compressing pictures you wish to put in a cache log. When in Picassa, you can quickly import pictures from your digital camera, and then click the Export button. It automatically compresses the file or files you have selected, and makes your large Digital Camera files compatible with posting to the Geocaching gallery. This program is espically useful when you have multiple pictures to post. Quote Link to comment
+Camo-crazed Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 could you post a link? Quote Link to comment
+Milbank Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 I thought geocaching.com resizes your photo's when you download them. Quote Link to comment
+Camo-crazed Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 I thought geocaching.com resizes your photo's when you download them. They do but it takes awhile and, as they say the resizing job isn't very good Quote Link to comment
+Milbank Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 I thought geocaching.com resizes your photo's when you download them. They do but it takes awhile and, as they say the resizing job isn't very good Everything take awhile on geocaching.com even with a high speed cable connection. Markwell Link Note: Geocaching.com will now accept file sizes larger than 100K, but the system will reduce them to something more web-friendly. The system also converts all image files to JPG instead of BMP, GIF or other image formats. But since this is a question I am constantly asked in other arenas, I'll leave it up here for posterity. OMG I"m starting to Markwell people.... Quote Link to comment
+zcubed Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 If you have WinXP go here and download the image resizer. All you do is right click and the images are quickly resized. Fast and simple. Quote Link to comment
+Alan2 Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 I use http://www.irfanview.com/ Quote Link to comment
Dale_Lynn Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 I also can reccomend Irfanview. Dale Quote Link to comment
+TetrAmigos Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 I third Irfanview. I have yet to see a better freeware resizing utility that keeps detail.. even when expanding photos! Quote Link to comment
+Subterranean Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 (edited) could you post a link? A download link for Picasa 2.0 can be found on versiontracker. Edit: Or just go to Picasa.com. Edited March 19, 2005 by subterranean Quote Link to comment
gridlox Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 A fourth for Irfanview!! Quote Link to comment
+Alan2 Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 (edited) I third Irfanview. I have yet to see a better freeware resizing utility that keeps detail.. even when expanding photos! One thing I do after resizing (reducing) with Irfan is to sharpen the picture a little. For some reason it appears to lose it's "zip" after resizing. Have you noticed that too? Edited March 19, 2005 by Alan2 Quote Link to comment
+Marietta Moose Posted March 19, 2005 Share Posted March 19, 2005 I have used XNVIEW (www.xnview.com) for handling resizing and file type conversion for many years. It is freeware and works very well. Quote Link to comment
+TetrAmigos Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 I third Irfanview. I have yet to see a better freeware resizing utility that keeps detail.. even when expanding photos! One thing I do after resizing (reducing) with Irfan is to sharpen the picture a little. For some reason it appears to lose it's "zip" after resizing. Have you noticed that too? Yes, when that file gets small it starts to loose the sharper points. I usually sharpen just before I begin resizing, and viola! Quote Link to comment
gridlox Posted March 20, 2005 Share Posted March 20, 2005 I third Irfanview. I have yet to see a better freeware resizing utility that keeps detail.. even when expanding photos! One thing I do after resizing (reducing) with Irfan is to sharpen the picture a little. For some reason it appears to lose it's "zip" after resizing. Have you noticed that too? Yes, when that file gets small it starts to loose the sharper points. I usually sharpen just before I begin resizing, and viola! Reducing size in stages helps too!! (In most any program) Don't drop down all in one step. Let's say you have a pic that is 800 pixels wide and you want to reduce it to 300 pixels wide. Instead of just dropping it all at once, reduce the image in steps of 100 pixels at a time. You'll defiately see a difference in the end product. Same if your reducing the DPI ! If your reducing a hgher resolution image taken by a digital camera, the DPI can be anywhere from 300 to 600 DPI. This is so you can print a clear image. If you want to use the picture on the web the most common DPI is 72 DPI. Unless you have a high resolution monitor then that is the most DPI the average monitor will display. Anything higher is just a waste of space on the server. Small steps, Ellie. Small steps. D-man Quote Link to comment
+Will+Bill Posted March 20, 2005 Author Share Posted March 20, 2005 Can you compress multiple images at a time with theses other programs? Quote Link to comment
+larsl Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 (edited) Can you compress multiple images at a time with theses other programs? For batch jobs the "convert" tool from ImageMagick is great. It's a command line program so it can be used in scripting - if you know a little Perl or Python or some other scripting language you can easily write something that downloads the latest pictures from your camera and converts/resizes all of them to a web-friendly format (you could do it automatically when you plug in your camera). Edited March 21, 2005 by larsl Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted March 21, 2005 Share Posted March 21, 2005 For batch jobs the "convert" tool from ImageMagick is great. It's a command line program so it can be used in scripting - if you know a little Perl or Python or some other scripting language you can easily write something that downloads the latest pictures from your camera and converts/resizes all of them to a web-friendly format (you could do it automatically when you plug in your camera). I'm not sure if that was a yes or a no. Quote Link to comment
+Alan2 Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 Can you compress multiple images at a time with theses other programs? Yes with Irfanview. You can select the compression and even add features such as sharpen all part of a batch process. Good for emailing a bunch of pictures. The main program is about 900K and the plug-ins are about 4M. One feature that's neat when I'm shooting crooked is you can tilt the pciture back to level. Everything is "lossless". It's got too many features to write about. It's free - give it a shot. I use it in conjuntion with all the image programs I got when I bought my Canon. I use Canon for transferring from camera to computer and for some editing before printing. But Irfamn is just a good all around program for resizing - and its very quick in opening files. Quote Link to comment
+cachew nut Posted March 23, 2005 Share Posted March 23, 2005 I usually sharpen just before I begin resizing, and viola! Quote Link to comment
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