Picture downloads

[Tiring Times]

Afternoon all,

My wife and I purchased a new digital camera and are interested in sharing our photos.
The problem is when I transfer them to our computer, the size or space is extremely large.

What is the best method in saving pictures where we can easily share them?

Regards,

Times...

 

[SweetErika]

Our camera does the same. I use Photoshop to resize and compress the images so they're easily attached or posted online. Programs like Photoshop and the free Irfanview make it easy to batch resize and compress images.

 

[Darkniciad]

Our camera does the same. I use Photoshop to resize and compress the images so they're easily attached or posted online. Programs like Photoshop and the free Irfanview make it easy to batch resize and compress images.

That's the ticket. Ifranview has a low learning curve ( especially on resizing with things like the "half" button that reduce the size by half with each click ) and the default settings for a resample do good resizes with minimal loss of quality.

And, it's free. If you don't already have a top-line program sitting on your hard-drive, you can't go wrong with Ifranview. I use it for all my resizing even though I have other more robust programs. It loads quickly and does the job right when that's all I'm wanting to do. It can batch convert images too, so if your cam software saves to a non-web friendly format, you can change the whole lot of them into .jpg or something in one operation.

 

[Tiring Times]

Got it! Thanks

 

[Weird Harold]

The problem is when I transfer them to our computer, the size or space is extremely large.

What is the best method in saving pictures where we can easily share them?

For those pictures already taken, Irfanview (or another program with a batch processing mode) is the best solution for reducing pictures down to e-mailable size.

You should be able to change the resolution on your camera to increase the number of pictures you can take before downloading and to save the time and troube of resizing them later -- 800x600 is a good resolution if all you plan to do with the pictures is e-mail them or view them on the computer; "meg-pixel" resolutions are useful primarily for printing the pictures. If you're not going to printthem, you don't need the meg-pixel size or resolution.

Note, depending on the camera, you may have to select the lower resolution every time you turn it on or change batteries -- mine is like that.

If you want the high resolution, invest in a CD or DVD burner and save the originals to a CD or DVD and then run irfanview's batch mode to reduce everything down to a 600 pixel height (or the height that matches your normal monitor resolution.) That saves processor time to fit the image to the screen when you view them and/or saves scrolling around to see the whole image. It also makes them easier to share via e-mail without overloading people's e-mail storage limits.

 

[cherries_on_snow]

super Free Graphics program

the Gnu Image Manipulation Program is excellent and shareware too.
Simply download it from www.gimp.org and (or maybe thegimp.org, but i think just gimp) and then hit image up in the top menu and scale. Then take whatever is the largest number in the popup window and replace it with 400 (make sure it's measuring pixels).

Then save it as whatever_the_name_of_your_photo_is.jpg

I love The GIMP! I've been using it for about a year and it's super fun and flexible. I love it SO much I even donated. ;-D

(Can't wait to see your pics!)