Pic Size

[G-Train]

Just a comment for those of us who do not have High Speed Access.

Some of you are attaching very large Bitmaps or Jpegs in your posts. Man, it takes forever to load these. If you could load these into your Paint program (or similar), and Resize them to 640x480, before attaching them, that would be great.

Thanks

Greg

[DaveR]

I may the guilty party this time - that last one was pretty big. Good advice - I'll take it.

[Glenn]

I hear ya. Guilty here too. This better? 640x480....

Glenn

[G-Train]

Dat's da ticket.

G

[us1]

I do have some good picture shrinking software I can email you guys if you like.

[DaveR]

Thanks John, but Microsoft Photo Editor works ok for me - now that I know I need to do it.

[G-Train]

I'm always interested in looking at new/different software. If you would send it to me, I'd appreciate it.

Greg

[us1]

You have to email me first for me to send it to you. S and F email won’t send attachments.

[B.Leonard]

I loaded a bunch that I knew some of you dial-up guys would hate me for on the Rumble thread. But I was in a hurry and didn't have time. Sorry :rolleyes: :)

S&F used to have a size limit for attachments, I'm glad it's gone though. I usually post to a place where they can be viewed as thumbnails and just post the link. Thats the way to do it.

-BL

[G-Train]

So it was you Intesticulator...now I'm going to have to come to the cRumble to confer with you face to face about your inconsideration for us technologicaly challenged boatniks...Of course I'll have to get the wife's permission first.

G

[B.Leonard]

Yeah c'mon out, put some faces to the names, talk outboards and general bs, do some runnin and knock back a few cold ones afterward. You'll have a good time!

-BL

[Balzy]

when I resize a pic to 5" to 6" wide (which I always do) it comes out just the width of the board and once in a while it comes out like a poster anyway?

[B.Leonard]

Are you remembering to save it after you resize? If you forget, then go and upload the pic you'll get the original.

-BL

[Techno]

Not only can you reduce the picture size but you can change the JPG quality. This usually makes the same picture smaller in bytes but doesn't really affect the sceen quality.

Reducing the size reduces the bytes.
Reducing the quality reduces the bytes too.

[Balzy]

BL, Yep, I have make sure I save em first. I know when I put one up that's too big and then change it, save it, and edit my post, I have to hit refresh to get the smaller size pic to show up the first time aI look at it. But once in a while it just won't shrink.

Techno, no need to reduce the quality on most of the stuff I post. They get captured from my digital video camera and they are only about 70 to 80 KB each anyway.

[LaveyT]

Cheryl told me it didnt!:eek:
All I have is a old windows 95 internet beater,I have paint i think?
Step by step how do I reduce the picture size????

[G-Train]

Hope this helps.
Open your file in Paint (double-click on it in explorer, or File, Open).
Select the IMAGE Pulldown Menu.
Select ATTRIBUTES. Then you'll see a dialog box with the Width and Height boxes available to be edited. Type in the desired size of the file. If you use 640 x 480 (common) make sure you have the PIXELS selected as your UNITS.

This will probably be clear when you open the dialog box.

It seems to me that most of the photo/bitmap editing programs will have some sort of similar generic function to quickly re-size your files.

B. Leonard - For some reason when I responded to the post you made, I was thinking you were Instigator. Sorry.... I am going to do whatever I can to make the Rumble, and bring some other Michigan Outboard Hotboaters with me (or me with them).

Greg

[pyro]

Paint is almost worthless for tyring to resize images. It distorts the hell out of them. To reduce to 75%, it removes every 4th row of pixels, instead of sampling them and blending down to smaller size. You need to get a real imaging program, even if it's a cheap one. Some programs that come with digital cameras, such as MGI, are complete **** for doing this type of stuff.

Glenn's image is a perfect example. It's resized nicely, but right click on it and selece "properties" Note that it's 101K in size. Huge filesize. I opened that sema image with Photoshop Elements (came free on my Sony VAIO) and added some compression. I was able to make it 61K without losing photo quality. Sometimes, it doesn't even need to be 640x480. You can see pretty good detail at smaller sizes, for all practical purposes. Close-ups of props, pistons, etc. are a different story. Even those don't need to be bigger than 640x480 or 800x600.

Photoshop, even the reduced version, JASC paint shop pro, etc. are good programs for resizing, adding compression, etc.

Here's the Byuboyz picture, resized again to 500x364, with compression set at half-quality. still not bad. Now it's 40K filesize.