Topic: Digital Photography Question?

[Roger]

Took this picture on a 4 megapixel camera using the default setting (next to highest resolution).

Downloaded it via the USB cable. Its over 900kb as a jpeg in the album (used Camedia software). Whats the best way to reduce if further to, say, under 100kb for emailing purposes?

 

[wellsie82]

what i do is to open the pic in something like paintbrush and go to strech/skew then reduce the % of the picture

[hoonin]

Paintshop Pro. You can get a 30 day eval copy from www.jasc.com

Use this to crop the image and/or reduce the colour depth. That should reduce it in size somewhat.

[Hinesy]

Rog
a) reduce the size in the resize option in your veiwer software then
b) save it as a jpg file with another name and increase the compression which reduces the size ( and quality but not drastically so)

[Roger]

Paintshop Pro. You can get a 30 day eval copy from www.jasc.com

Use this to crop the image and/or reduce the colour depth. That should reduce it in size somewhat.

ta Gareth.

Had a fiddle and pictures are perfectly useable at 640x480 resolution on this camera. They save at about 120kb instead of 900kb for the default setting.

I suppose you have to balance up whether you are going to archive high resolution pics so as to bore the rellies when they come round or save them in a format that you can send quick across the web.

the low resolution gives about 375 pics on a 64Mb card instead of 66 at the next to highest setting.

[Roger]

Rog
a) reduce the size in the resize option in your veiwer software then
b) save it as a jpg file with another name and increase the compression which reduces the size ( and quality but not drastically so)

This viewer software (Camedia) is not the most user friendly piece of stuff I've ever used. Ta for the info though. I'll plug away and familiarise meself with it a bit more to follow that advice.

 

[Hinesy]

ta Gareth.

Had a fiddle and pictures are perfectly useable at 640x480 resolution on this camera. They save at about 120kb instead of 900kb for the default setting.

I suppose you have to balance up whether you are going to archive high resolution pics so as to bore the rellies when they come round or save them in a format that you can send quick across the web.

the low resolution gives about 375 pics on a 64Mb card instead of 66 at the next to highest setting.

I get 99 pics on s 128MB card at 1280X 960 which is big enough for the computer and TV and yet allows plenty of photos for a day.

[Roger]

I get 99 pics on s 128MB card at 1280X 960 which is big enough for the computer and TV and yet allows plenty of photos for a day.

got 5 photo's saved at the high setting and just changed the setting to 1280x960 and the camera is saying I have 141 pics left on the 64Mb card. Its an Olympus XD card. But I'd never use that much on a weeks holiday.

[Hinesy]

good news.
It also depends on the 'quality' your photos are set at, each brand of camera does this in a different way.
Mine has four settings - high, fine, normal and economy and I leave it on fine for me, as it gets great detail. Fuji cameras have a setting that varies the actual pixels used (1million, 3million etc).
So you're probably on normal quality ( perfectly acceptable for holiday snaps ) at that size which is fine too.

Do a couple of tests first.

[John C]

Has anybody got an Olympus Pen E-PM1?

I've had one for a while and can't get familiar with it besides the very basic functions, in particular I'd like to learn how to take a picture similar to way you would take a B Setting on a SLR.
Any tips would be much appreciated.

[Trada]

Disappointed there isn't a active Photography thread on RAWK.

Just decided to take it up, need to do something to get me out the house.

Fancy trying to take some pictures of the night Sky, don't live to far from open fields on the edge of Frome so a bit less light pollution around this area after a short walk.

But I don't live to far from the Frome police station and I have a feeling I will be stopped by the police at some point asking me what am I up to wandering the streets at 2am with a tripod a camera and a torch.

Just waiting for my tripod to get delivered and then a moonless clear night to give it a go.

[McrRed]

Don't forget the Pictures You Are Proud Of thread. That's fairly active... though tends not to go into f-stops and all that malarkey.

[John C]

Disappointed there isn't a active Photography thread on RAWK.

https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=108647.msg15426159#msg15426159