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04/25/2004 11:28:43 PM · #1 |
When I e-mail friends pictures, they say it takes like fifteen minutes for them to load after they've opened the e-mail. How do I make pictures smaller? When you answer, O great one who knows all, please keep in mind I know almost nothing about computers and slightly more about digital camera's. I just take the pictures with a reasonable amount of skill and run with it. Thanks so much!
Message edited by author 2004-04-26 21:52:49.
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04/25/2004 11:30:57 PM · #2 |
| It would be useful to know what image editing software you have available. |
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04/25/2004 11:40:45 PM · #3 |
ok, let's assume the bulk of your friends have dial up internet service. This means things go very slowly for them. And let's further assume that you have a nice camera that takes pictures at a top resolution of about 3.1 megapixels. Because you want your pictures to them to be the best (these are your friends after all) you send them the entire file. That means they are trying to download what we in the dial up community refer to as B.A.P. files (that's Big Ass Files to those of you with high speed). The size of your file is likely meant to provide them with fine printed pictures. But in the screen world they aren't getting good pictures, they are getting huge pictures.
Now, if you want to give them pictures they can quickly download for fine viewing on their monitors (or rather as fine a quality view as a monitor provides, which in many a monitor's case ain't too good) then you want to limit the size of the file. How do you do that? Simple.
Just go into the editing software you got with your new camera and under image size (or some command which sounds like that) change your dpi (dots per inch) to 72 - that's the normal setting for stuff like this on the web. Then, change the longer dimension to 8. Your friend will then receive a quickly downloding 8 x 6 (or some like size) from you. While the print quality may well not be great when they try and print it, it should still look good as gravy on the screen.
Hope this helped.
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04/25/2004 11:49:17 PM · #4 |
| The other thing you can do it look into pbase.com. For $23/year you can get 100 Mbytes of room for your photos online. The neat part is that you can send your fiends a link to your photos on Pbase.com and they will have a choice of sizes to look at. For those with high speed Internet they can look at the photos full sized, for those will slower connection they can look at smaller photos. It takes a little bit of work to learn how to use pbase.com but it is worth the effort in my opinion |
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04/25/2004 11:49:33 PM · #5 |
You are a god (bows down in reverence).
Message edited by author 2004-04-26 21:53:49.
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04/26/2004 12:01:40 AM · #6 |
| Welcome to DPC mystique. If you don't have software to downsize your photos I'd suggest to try IrfanView. It's pretty basic and easy to use, and will do nicely for making photo files sized for e-mailing. Best of all it's free. You can download it here:IrfanView.com |
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04/26/2004 09:52:27 PM · #7 |
Thanks! I'll go download it right now.
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04/29/2004 08:57:08 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by coolhar:
Welcome to DPC mystique. If you don't have software to downsize your photos I'd suggest to try IrfanView. It's pretty basic and easy to use, and will do nicely for making photo files sized for e-mailing. Best of all it's free. You can download it here:IrfanView.com |
Is that also good to use for submitting photos for challenges? |
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04/29/2004 09:50:30 PM · #9 |
| Yes dahved, IrfanView is a good program to use to prepare your photos for submitting to challenges. It's not as sophisticated as some others but it has everything you need to take an image from camera to challenge. It's a great program to learn with while you develope your skills and get a better idea of your needs. And you can't beat the price!! |
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