FC Drifter

i got a digital camera to take pics of my FC. the pics are pretty good one. however they are to big to post here. anybody wanna help me out? i have about 9 pics but i only want a few posted. i wouldnt ask for the help buy im really not good with computers and i have no idea how to make them smaller.

vaughnc

that'd be me

-- vaughnc@earthlink.net

Emails should be around 2-3MB/ea - at least I think that's earthlinks limitation.

FC Drifter

well damn, my email isnt functioning properly. it wont let me attatch the pics. i have another computer at my parents house that works better. i will try using that one tommorow

RETed

Most digital cameras has settings which you can lower the resolution - try and see if you can do that.

There are lots of freeware/shareware paint programs that will do a "resize" for you.



-Ted

vaughnc

But I prefer the HUGE uncompressed images

NZConvertible

Set your digicam to take smaller and/or lower-res pictures. The file sizes will be much smaller.

RETed

Hey, not all of us can afford 21" monitors with 2000+X resolution!&nbsp I find 1024 is fine for most pics on the web - you're wasting a lot of server space running them any bigger, IMO.

Maybe we should take a poll on what size monitors and resolutions you guys are running at?&nbsp Remember, this is NOT pr0n!


-Ted

vaughnc

Nothing to do with monitor size, the higher quality pics downsample much better. I'd rather have the HQ ones

FC Drifter

hey guys its cool. i got a pic album on yahoo to post my pics. i started a new thread with the link. btw, the pics are pretty big, around 850k apeice. i think thats big anyway.

RETed

Uh, yeah it does.&nbsp Monitor drivers usually limit you to resolution size and number of colors (i.e. bits).&nbsp Have you ever tried to run 1600x or higher resolution on a 13" monitor?&nbsp It won't let you do that, or the graphics won't come out right.

Display size has everything to do with resolution.&nbsp A pixel is a pixel.&nbsp You're trying to run too big of a resolution on a small monitor, and you lose a LOT of detail...



-Ted

vaughnc

Ahh, but the "uncrompressed mode" UXGA (1600x1200) on my sony cybershot takes near flawless pictures. I keep those as the orginal for use in artwork, ablumns, etc..

The ones I show here are downsampled to SVGA (800x600) and funny thing - they look better than if I took the picture at 800x600

I scan pics in TIFF mode at 300-1200DPI depending on the original picture size which equates to 35MB Tiff files. Those look WAY better when downsampled to 800x1200 150Kb .jpg files than just scanning at 800x600.

Also always downsample to 800x600 to fit nicely in these www.rx7club.com windows, but I request "SEND ME THE BIG @$$ pictures" because I usually do a little touchup & enhancement to bring out the details, remove .jpg artificats, scratches, etc.. You definitly want the big pictures then.

Well - nuff of the multimedia 101

RETed

...or shoot everything in bitmap.

I'm not getting paid to take pics, so my Mavica taking JPEGS at 1024 is fine for most of my pic requirements.



-Ted