Thread: Sizing pics so you lot can see 'em?

size your pics at 640 x 480 at 70 dpi

Waldo
I don't use a Mac so while what follows should work, I can only be sure for a PC
To get a picture below 100kb I do one of the following
resize the image to 800 pixels wide or 600 pixels tall, anything bigger and there's a risk it'll run off the screen, or
resample the image to a resolution of between 72dpi and 100dpi
— I rarely need to do both
then I increase the JPG's compression till the file is small enough

hope this helps

ian

JPG's can be compressed (sometimes called quality) as Ian said. When you save a JPG, most software will show a slider from 0 to 100. Often the default to 80%. You can reduce the quality down to 50% and it will still render well on a screen. This will reduce the size of your image in KB without reducing the size of the image on the screen.

G'day,

Hey thanks Echnidna and Ian for the tip.

PS. If you had a real computer I'd tell you to download FastStone from www.faststone.org. It's free and great.

G'day Grunt,

Thanks also. Shoul be on my way to putting up some pics of some homemade machinery - just as soon as a mate emails some pics I took this arvo.

G'day Grunt,

No mate you want my gear, a G5 with 2.25 Gb of RAM, a 23" High Definition digital display running stuff like PhotShop CS, FastStone looks like a imitation to P/Shop. And I don't want to show off too much. Besides I'm sure your woodie skill are better tah n mine.

But hey if it works - great.

My typin g skills are up the creek too.

Originally Posted by Waldo

G'day Grunt,

No mate you want my gear, a G5 with 2.25 Gb of RAM, a 23" High Definition digital display running stuff like PhotShop CS, FastStone looks like a imitation to P/Shop. And I don't want to show off too much. Besides I'm sure your woodie skill are better tah n mine.

But hey if it works - great.

My typin g skills are up the creek too.

Size your images NO SMALLER than 400 X 500px & use to "Save for Web" > "Optimize to File Size" > file size = 99kb

If you can't follow this, go to > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs > Photoshop CS - Complete Removal

HTH............

G'day Major,

Thanks on the optimisation bit.

Originally Posted by Waldo

running stuff like PhotShop CS,

If you are running photoshop.

Save For Web
Pick the sized file you want to save.
Save

I post all mine useing this method.

Al

Originally Posted by Waldo

I run a Mac ...

Good to see someone else running a real computer

From iPhoto, I save the pics sized to about 800 pixels by whatever (iPhoto works out the other dimension, width or height). These are typically 2 or 3 hundred kBytes. Then drag them into smallimage, set to about 50% compression, and they come out well below 100 kB.

You can download smallimage from here:
http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/smallimage2/

Hey Al, Did some of your brickwork fall out mate,

Bloody chippys and their hammers.


Al

Originally Posted by zenwood

Good to see someone else running a real computer

Now with an Intel chipset, just the same as a PC