Posted: 1/11/2003 5:19:08 PM EDT
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Just bought a new digital camera. How does the camera determine the size of the image in JPEG form? Reason I ask, I take the pics, load to my PC and they are too big to load to my photo gallery here. I can't find a way to shrink the images. Anyone know how? Thanx in advance. Steve |
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I think it depends on how much "stuff" is in the image. A pic with two guns in it should be larger than a pic with one gun. I usually resize my images in Microsoft Photo Editor. Comes with MS Office but default settings on Office XP won't load it initially. On a 4-megapixel camera set at max resolution I find myself shrinking the image 25%. |
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Steve. My Olympus has settings for different size/quality of pics. The smallest one being 640 X 480 pixels and is taken in the SQ2 mode on mine. Some list a size for email, which is usually the smaller size ones. Hope this helps. Look for quality, or size settings. Where in VA. are you located BTW. MM419 |
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Steve: Take a look at the software that came with the camera. It MIGHT give you some way of resizing the pictures after they’ve been taken and loaded onto your computer. That said, I’ve got a Canon and the software that came with it doesn’t do that. If this doesn’t work, see if you’ve got some other image editing software that will do that. If you’ve got a scanner, you might have gotten some software with it that will let you resize images. Barring that, and assuming you can’t get the camera to do what you want, you may want to look at buying a suitable software package. While irritating to work with IMHO, Microsoft Picture It should do what you want (albeit crudely). I goes for about $50. While I’ve never worked with either, Jasc Paintshop Pro or Adobe Photoshop Elements almost certainly will do what you want. They go for about $100. I use Adobe Photoshop, which will definitely do what you want (and a whole lot more!) – however, both the price and learning curve for this package is steep!! I suspect there are some freeware/shareware packages out there that will do what you want, but I don’t know what they are. There is something called GIMP for Windows (or something like that) that might be worth looking into. For posting on this board, I generally make the image 620 pixels wide by however high it needs to be (within reason) with 72 pixels per inch resolution. This fits nicely on the page. Note that JPEG compresses the file for storage. Due to how it performs this compression, the less detail in the image - as SeaDweller mentioned - the smaller the file. That’s why each time you take a picture, even without changing any camera settings, the size of the file will often vary. |