BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Jun 07 - 06:22 PM

I was helping a friend with some eBay stuff earlier this week and watched him use a software (free download) called JPEG Resizer. Looks fast and easy. Find it here:

http://www.virtualzone.de/resizer/

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: skipy
Date: 13 Jun 07 - 04:10 AM

Print them off & get a pair of scissors..................
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Jun 07 - 04:35 PM

Refreshing this to say thanks for these suggestions. I'm heading to a friend's house this evening to help him post some of a collection to eBay. Alas, it is time to pay the taxes and they have been under-employed. Sad days, but at least there will be affordable software! I've downloaded IRFANVIEW for him to try.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 05:09 PM

Ah, Jeannie, I remember her well. I think she appeared in a box next to the jumble puzzle on the funny pages.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: bbc
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 04:44 PM

Like Penny, I use Microsoft Photo Editor. I find it easy to use.

best,

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: John Hardly
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 04:41 PM

I bet you wouldn't even have to consult Jean Dixon.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 04:38 PM

Lemme guess . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: John Hardly
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 04:37 PM

"How do I reduce size of digital photos?"

Have you tried ice cold water? "

m-m-m-m-m-m a wise guy, eh?

...have I got a digit for you.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Peace
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 03:24 PM

"How do I reduce size of digital photos?"

Have you tried ice cold water?

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: IWTATBM
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 02:44 PM

You can download a media resizer FREE but only today from here

www.giveawayoftheday.com/

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 12:55 PM

Okay, but try to sing it first before you make the change permanent.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: John Hardly
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 12:53 PM

I want'd to ma'k d'oeuvres by d'hour but it t'red me out just learning to s'pell it.

I think little Oscar the wiener dog ought to change his name to "Little Noam Chompsky".

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 12:40 PM

Sounds like time for hors d'oeuvres.

You make any fancy plates for those?

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: John Hardly
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 12:23 PM

Can you now fit in a matchbox? Are you bigger than, smaller than, or the same size as Stuart Little?

Can he still beat you up?

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: GUEST,Oscar the wiener dog
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 12:21 PM

I hear all and smell all, John. Nothing escapes my radar. I am the ears that hear. I am the nose that knows.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: John Hardly
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 12:15 PM

HEY OSCAR!!!

since you been shruncked....

Can you hear an even smaller, higher-pitched whistle than the one humans already can't hear?

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: GUEST,Oscar the wiener dog
Date: 05 Jun 07 - 12:08 PM

You may not be able to see us, but you will never fail to hear us.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: John Hardly
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 01:30 PM

They are actually TEENY tiny pots. And, yes, they work very well for teeny tiny wiener dogs.

They keep 'em fresh too!

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 12:43 PM

LOL! Wow, that sounds like a really useful piece of software, John.

No, not the wiener....

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 12:37 PM

John, how is the pottery business these days? Do you tell us about this trick because you make and sell tiny little pots to use as dog houses?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: John Hardly
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 12:32 PM

Of course, as soon as I hit the "submit reply" button, it occurred to my that you might be quite practiced at finding weiners that you can barely see.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: John Hardly
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 12:25 PM

I use irfandog voodoo imagemanipulator softdogware 3.1. With this simple software I have been able take a picture of a dog, scan it with any available scanner (mine is HP Officejet 7310 all-in-one). Then I transfer the image of the dog (in jpeg format) into the irfandog voodoo imagemanipulator softdogware 3.1 and click on "Resize Dog".

Be careful not to over-do it. Sure, the upside is attractive -- very, very small backyard piles -- but make that dog too small and fences become totally useless. And nobody wants to be out searching the neighborhood for a weinerdog that you can barely see.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 12:19 PM

another relatively easy way (in XP) is to use SEND to in the pull down file commands and there is an option for reduced file size for email
- that way you can reduce a whole bunch of pictures at once. (I used to reduce them the hard way by opening and reducing files one by one - its so much easier to select all the pics you want to send.)
cheers
petr

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Jun 07 - 01:51 AM

Yeah, John, I'd like to shrink the dachshund. He's getting too fat.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Penny S.
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 04:25 PM

I use Microsoft Photo Editor to resize, and I think it came with Works. It certainly came with Office at work. That's about all I use it for.

Penny

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 02:24 PM

I have Paint Shop Pro 9, which I use for all my photo editing. It has a toolbar which allows you to optimise photos for the web. The toolbar contains a 'Jpeg optimizer'. If you click on this you are presented with a wizard option which is pretty nifty for shrinking images. I stumbled on this the other day when trying to shrink some photos for a Powerpoint presentation. Because of the particular application that I was working with it took me a while to realise that it was the web optimiser that I needed.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: John Hardly
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 01:30 PM

Now that you've had the question adequately answered, is there anything else you'd like to have shrunk?

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 01:15 PM

Little Hawk-

It may be a little late to suggest this, and most likely other folks on this thread that I've skipped over have already said this, but I always keep the original image and do a "save as" to produce a copy that I can dumb down for web or e-mail attachments.

I generally set the resolution at 96 and the size a little less than 1 mb. That generally produces an image of about 7" X 5" on the screen for ready viewing. It won't make a great print at that size but will look fine on the screen.

I use Photoshop on a MAC system.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 11:19 AM

My goodness! What an avalanche of information. Mudcat comes through with flying colors.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: bobad
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 10:12 AM

The Microsoft Powertoy utility automatically resizes to a copy and labels it as such along with the size to which it has been resized.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: bfdk
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 10:02 AM

Depending on the motif of the photo a gif file may be smaller than a similar jpeg, but then again it may not. However, gif is restricted to a total of 256 colours, so if there are many shades in a photo, these will be lost when converting it to a gif file.

I have a Canon EOS 300D (that's the Rebel in the USA, if I'm not mistaken) and I use PSP6.0. Here's what I usually do when downsizing photos:

1. Open the photo file and take a copy to work on (Shift+D).
2. Run Unsharp Mask (Images > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask) - this may or may not be necessary, as some cameras deliver the photos rather "soft" in focus whereas others don't.
3. Resize the photo to the desired size. If you go for 600 pixel wide on a landscape format photo and 400 pixel wide on a portrait format one, that should in most cases give you a file size in jpeg around the 2-300k, which is within your specified size range.
4. Make any necessary optimizations with Colours > Adjust > and play around a bit with Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation/Lightness or try the Gamma Correction option and add some saturation afterwards. This depends entirely on the individual photo.
5. Once the photo looks its best, run the sharpen filter (Images > Sharpen > Sharpen) and save as a jpeg file.

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 09:06 AM

Working on a copy-- YES. Also be aware that once you downsize, blowing it back up will make bad blurries. That means that photo recipients will not be able to upsize effectively, but they probably know that. They can request a better qual large version if they have a favorite. Also I believe .GIFs are smaller files, so downsizing and saving as a .GIF may do it.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: bfdk
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 08:41 AM

LH,

As far as I can see nobody's mentioned this before, but when working on photos always work on a copy and leave the original intact.

That way you can go back and start over if you screw up somehow :-)

Best wishes,

Bente

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 05:57 AM

Sorry mixing my packages up - HP Image Zone.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 05:51 AM

You may already have it, LH. From experience a number of software packages supplied with digital cameras (HP photoshop for instance) have the facility. It can be in the saving of the file. Open the file with your editing/viewing software and chose 'Save as' rather than just 'Save'. It may well give you the option to resize.

Cheers

Dave

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: BK Lick
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 02:41 AM

Here's a handy little online facility.

—BK

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 01:44 AM

I have 3 freeware programs, & I find this one xnview the best. All have PC & Mac versions.

Gimp does as much as Photospop, which far too massive for my purposes & I never got around to using CocoviewX, so I can't comment on it.

With XnView, I just Open a pic, Resize & Save.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 03 Jun 07 - 01:35 AM

And LH, anything is easy if you can get someone else to do it for you.

If it's too complicated for you, give the task to Chongo and he'll be able to figure it out. I'd suggest, however, that he's gonna want a good program to work with, and a couple of bananananas as friendly compensation.

With a little practice, he'll be able to tranform that ugly ape he's been dating into a lovely chimpish goddess, so he can brag about her to all his friends (or at least admit he knows her).

John

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: GUEST,Number 6
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 11:34 PM

LH .... instead of e-mailing your pictures to family/friends, open up a flickr account, post your pics there and provide the link to them.

I'm surprised e-Bay doesn't have the facility to automatically resize pictures posted.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 11:33 PM

Photoshop!!!

But, Kodak, ImageServer, Photobucket, Flicker, MS-Page, MS-Image, will all permit you edit photo size. (Even check out the ancient "Bandwidth Conservancy")

For "web-page" publication a 72 by 72 will give the reader all the pixels most traditional screens can display.

What is your purpose????...that determines application.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

you can even drag/draw to fit format....if loading speed is not a consideration.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: GUEST,Number 6
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 11:26 PM

I now use Picasa (exclusively) for my photo editing. Photoshop is now just collecting dust somewhere on my laptop's hard drive.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 11:23 PM

Buy some t-shirt transfers in the computer supply section. Print your photos on them. Iron them unto wool fabric. Wash them in warm water.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 10:58 PM

Hmm. Interesting.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 10:56 PM

If you ever want to learn the powerful program with all of the bells and whistles, Photoshop is the program. I still use only a fraction of its functionality, but I do use it all of the time. It's very powerful.

Picasa is a good one, but the main thing I had to do to get the funtionality from it was to make it look deeper into directories to find all of the places I store photos. I like the feature for printing contact sheets of whatever is in a given file. That is very useful.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: GUEST,Number 6
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 10:55 PM

Ignore my previous post ... I just realized this works only if you have Nikon Picture Project installed on your system.

If you want Picture Project ... go out and by a Nikon D200, you get the software included with the camera. Then again, forget the the software. Nikon Picture Project is not a photo editing program that I recommend. I do highly recommend the Nikon D200 though.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: GUEST,Number 6
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 10:48 PM

If your using Microsoft XP you change the actual size by opening up your jpeg, click on the "Image Edit Icon" down at the bottom (right next to the ? icon) ... once your edit is open, click "image" on the toolbar, select "attributes" ... ok, now you can change the image size (pixels, or cm, or inches).

Rags ... yer welcome.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 10:12 PM

I saw it, John, but I seem to have already found something that works fine with bobad's link, so I didn't pursue it further. It sounds more complicated than what I can do with the image resizing tool.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 10:06 PM

Bert -
Paint Shop Pro is intended for (emphasizes and makes easy) different uses than Photoshop, although there is a lot of overlap.

You can use whatever strokes your creative gremlins, and PSP is pretty good for creating art. It only takes a little practice to learn that Photoshop (and especially Photoshop Elements) is much better for photo manipulation, changes in format, etc for my gremlins.

LH -

Did you miss my last suggestion? (Not actually a method I'd recommend.)

John

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: Bert
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 09:44 PM

I prefer Paint Shop Pro over Photoshop. I find it much easier to use.

Subject: RE: BS: How do I reduce size of digital photos?
From: pattyClink
Date: 02 Jun 07 - 08:07 PM

Irfanview!! Tiny, quick, no grief, very easy to change resolution and type of file. and free!