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[treemann]

Is this picture size OK?

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Thanks! It popped into view in three spurts.

 

[Colin]

I've noticed a lotta members like to post giant pics. Even on a high speed connection, it's a pita.

Resize!

 

[Elmore]

Resizing your images, the easy way

You can resize your images by using this free and easily used program.
http://www.irfanview.com/
Once downloaded and installed, simply select file, then open your file, select image then resize, select the 640 x 480 pixels or any other size desired (hopefully smaller), click okay, then go to file and select save. I generally choose the 640 x 480 pixels option. If you want to keep your outrageously large image, be sure to copy it or rename your resized pic so that it doesn't overwrite your obscenely huge photo.

 

[glens]

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Is this picture size OK?

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Size dimension-wise is fine, but it's still too large byte-wise.

By dropping from the original "quality" level of "90" (fine for printing; too much for 'web display) to that of "75", the file size in bytes is chopped almost in half, from 258601 to a (mostly) modem-acceptable 147452 bytes.

See if you can see a difference on your screen between your and my attached versions.

Glen

 

[treemann]

I am not sure how to change the quality of the pictures. It is easy to resize but I haven't seen any options for changing the quality.

 

[glens]

In a rather ironic way, the free and exquisite image manipulation suite from http://imagemagick.org/ provides a GUI for me to do just about everything the suite can do via the separate utilities included, but for the Windows build, the GUI is merely a displayer. For myself the separate commands are more elegantly invoked directly anyway, so that's how I do it: the same way a Windows user would have to. Usually the Windows user will consider having to use a command prompt a very great imposition (which it in fact is compared to a real command interpreter the likes of which MS doesn't offer, but that's a separate matter since the good stuff is also freely available in Windows builds).

In the example above it was nothing more than the equivalent of issuing the command at the prompt:
<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>convert -quality 75 original.jpg modified.jpg [enter]</pre><hr />working in the directory which contained "original.jpg". The result was a still-unmodified "original.jpg" and a shiny new "modified.jpg" alongside it. Nothing could be easier. Literally. Even when using a GUI one still must type in a target file name, and using the mouse merely becomes an added inconvenience requiring a hand-shift to the keyboard and back again, and again, and again.

There may be a Windows-centric utility which does provide most of the same functionality, but I'm not a Windows user and am not familiar with what's out there for it.

Fetch the ImageMagick package you need and holler if you need a hand with it.

Glen