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Post by comet on Mar 2, 2009 11:30:58 GMT
A little hint for when you are posting photos.
Don't worry about what you are seeing on the computer you are posting from.
Strange things can appear to be happening between your unedited photos and photobucket the changes "DO NOT APPEAR" to be happening and the screen size can go a bit crazy.
If you have a second computer you can monitor the "Real" results as the are posted on the forum.
Just press F5 every so often on the second computer to see what is "Really" going up on the forum
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Post by Martin on May 16, 2009 11:00:00 GMT
Hi
I would be grateful for some advice on resizing. I have resized some photos from the Brits using PHOTOfunSTUDIO which is the software that came with my camera. I opted for size 800/600 pixels and compression ratio 60% to give me a resultant file size of 107k. So far so good.
I then downloaded them to Photobucket, selecting 640 x 480. However, when I trial loaded a photo to HWI the size came out at over 300K. What am I doing wrong?
Martin
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Post by grant on May 16, 2009 13:08:03 GMT
Hi Martin
I'll try to help if I can, but I'm not familiar with the software you mention as I use Photoshop Elements.
For my own images, I usually crop to a maximum width of 750 pixels for landscape and 650 pixels for portrait format - my software automatically calculates the length. As far as compression goes, I usually save to either No.3 or No.4 (with No.12 being the highest quality) in percentage terms that would equate to 25/33%.
I don't do anything with Photobuckets sizes as it's set to my monitor screen size, so I don't know whether changing it will make any significant difference.
I usually find that the size increases by between 5 and 20%, so I try to get the initial image size down to no more than 75kb.
The other thing to bear in mind is that the pixel/quality ratio will vary depending upon the detail in the image.
First thing I would suggest is to set Photobucket image size to the size of your monitor screen; make the image slightly smaller and compress to 25% and see what happens.
Hope that will help, if it doesn't, then you perhaps need to find someone using the same software.
Good luck!
Grant
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Post by Karsten on May 16, 2009 15:01:23 GMT
Hi Martin,
I had the same problem: Having resized a picture to less than 100k I found that photobucket produced larger images.
I've changed to imageshack.us where I didn't face such problems so far.
Good luck from me, too.
Cheers, Karsten
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Post by Martin on May 17, 2009 12:46:37 GMT
Hi Grant & Karsten
Many thanks for your suggestions. I just couldn't understand why Photobucket was resizing my photos but after a lot of experimentation and on Karsten's advice to try the hosting site imageshack.us, I managed to get the photos acceptable on the Forum.
However, I am a little disappointed witht the overall quality but this is the first time I have used my new camera and I realise there is still a lot to learn about taking qualilty photos.
Best wishes
Martin
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Post by grant on May 17, 2009 16:59:19 GMT
However, I am a little disappointed witht the overall quality but this is the first time I have used my new camera and I realise there is still a lot to learn about taking qualilty photos. Don't know why Martin  the ones you've posted are excellent! Best wishes Grant
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Post by Steve H on May 17, 2009 17:40:35 GMT
However, I am a little disappointed with the overall quality but this is the first time I have used my new camera and I realise there is still a lot to learn about taking quality photos.
Best wishes
Martin I will second Grant's comments Martin you have done well with your new camera, I wish my first pictures with my first DSLR were that good! I hope you enjoyed the Brit's I wish I could have been there with you all, hopefully I can catch up with you at Leamington if you are going? Steve H  |
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Post by BenCMitchell on Aug 14, 2009 14:11:07 GMT
Hi folks
I am sure this has already been discussed about a million times, but I am still having trouble with resizing my images.
At the beginning of this thread, Dave suggests using 'Paint' as a way to compress the images, by saving them as JPEG's. I tried this with a couple of photo's, but the 'compressed' image size is still 400KB - 4 times more than what the forum allows!
Any help would be much appreciated, as I like sharing experiences through pictures as well as words!
Cheers
Ben
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Post by grant on Aug 14, 2009 14:20:23 GMT
Hi Ben
Not sure I can be much help as I'm not familiar with 'Paint' but have you tried reducing the image size as well as compressing? Reducing the width to say 650/700 pixels may help.
Best wishes
Grant
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Post by postscript on Aug 14, 2009 14:32:51 GMT
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Post by Richard on Aug 14, 2009 15:04:10 GMT
Sorry, I can't really help with compressing files.
Richard
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Post by BenCMitchell on Aug 14, 2009 23:44:30 GMT
Not sure I can be much help as I'm not familiar with 'Paint' but have you tried reducing the image size as well as compressing? Reducing the width to say 650/700 pixels may help. Hi Grant How do you reduce the image size? i am not amongst the vast majority of teenagers who know the 'ins and outs' of computers! Sorry about that! Cheers Ben |
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Post by Ross on Aug 15, 2009 4:32:14 GMT
Not sure I can be much help as I'm not familiar with 'Paint' but have you tried reducing the image size as well as compressing? Reducing the width to say 650/700 pixels may help. Hi Grant How do you reduce the image size? i am not amongst the vast majority of teenagers who know the 'ins and outs' of computers! Sorry about that! Cheers Ben Hope this will help Ben as I use Paint to reduce my photo size as well. Use Paint to open your photo. Click on Image Tab at top. Then click on Resize/Skew Change the Horizontal and Vertical size from 100% to about 30 to 40% depending on the size of your photo. Save the new photo. Check the size of your new photo and if it is still above 100kB then open your old photo again in paint and change to a lower percentage size. Hope this helps. |
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Post by BenCMitchell on Aug 15, 2009 13:47:39 GMT
Hope this will help Ben as I use Paint to reduce my photo size as well. Use Paint to open your photo. Click on Image Tab at top. Then click on Resize/Skew Change the Horizontal and Vertical size from 100% to about 30 to 40% depending on the size of your photo. Save the new photo. Check the size of your new photo and if it is still above 100kB then open your old photo again in paint and change to a lower percentage size. Hope this helps. Hi Ross Thats brill, thank you. Ben |
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Post by martindn on Aug 15, 2009 21:09:38 GMT
Hi Ben,
I normally use a program called FSI Batch, which runs under RISC OS, and this led me to look for something for Windows that does something similar. I have a free program called "Pixillon Image Converter" from a company called NCH. It is free to download from their website.This allows you apply the same conversion to a whole batch of images instead of doing them one at a time with Paint. You just choose the files you want to convert, then select your output fromat and image size (in pixels), and degree of compression for compressed formats. Then away you go. You might need a bit of trial and error to start with do get all your images down below 100K, but you soon get the hang of it.
Martin
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the ones you've posted are excellent!
