Each one of the photos from me recent Ladakh and Spiti trip are over 3 MB big..giant..is there any way to cut them down to a more reasonable size?
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How To Make Photos Eat Up Less Space?
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Mount Cleverest
, Jun 28 2006 07:34 PM
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malkers
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Posted 28 June 2006 - 07:40 PM
Mount Cleverest, on Jun 28 2006, 03:04 PM, said:
Each one of the photos from me recent Ladakh and Spiti trip are over 3 MB big..giant..is there any way to cut them down to a more reasonable size?
MC, virtually any viewing software will do this. If you open in Microsoft Office Picture Manager you can just select Edit Pictures at the top and you'll find an option to resize on the right hand side. Remember to save as a different filename if you want to keep your original high res pictures.
I find the best software for doing this in multiples is ACDSee.
If I had a fast connection I would suggest to send them to me but that size will take an age, you could ask John.sw when he gets back tomorrow, he'll kill me for saying that but what the hell
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PS: You need them about 25% of that size to upload them easily to the gallery here!
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Posted 28 June 2006 - 07:55 PM
Photoshop does a great job in this, cuts down the files size without resizing the picture!!
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Posted 29 June 2006 - 03:17 AM
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Posted 29 June 2006 - 04:54 AM
Yup Irfanview is a good image editing sw, it can even resize and rename photos for you in a batch process (multiple files)
Edited by Yogesh Sarkar, 29 June 2006 - 04:54 AM.
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Posted 29 June 2006 - 09:19 AM
The only problem with reducing the size is that you loose quality, I wouldn't reduce the size (eg Save as a Jpeg etc) without having a backup of the original already - A good solution would be to have an MP3 player that can put files on to it, something with 40Gb or so would easily be able to handle a copy of your files until you reach home. Another lossless solution would be too ZIP them up, although don't know how well Jpeg files zip....
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Posted 29 June 2006 - 11:45 AM
your workflow with IRFANVIEW...
1. Take a copy... Enhance colors in full resolution!!!!
2. Resize/Resample your image
Resize.jpg 81.53K
33 downloads
3. Sharpen
4. Save as... JPEG
Ready...
If you add these free plugins, you got nearly a "full photoshop"...
http://www.photo-plu...id=68&Itemid=43
AndreasW
1. Take a copy... Enhance colors in full resolution!!!!
2. Resize/Resample your image
Resize.jpg 81.53K
33 downloads3. Sharpen
4. Save as... JPEG
Ready...
If you add these free plugins, you got nearly a "full photoshop"...
http://www.photo-plu...id=68&Itemid=43
AndreasW
Edited by AndreasW, 29 June 2006 - 12:09 PM.
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Posted 29 June 2006 - 05:12 PM
Well, I always use Adobe Photoshop to reduce the size of the pictures. Photoshop actually reduces only the size of the file and it does affect the resolution of the picture more than 10% of the actual resolution. For example, I have reduced a file size from 4 MB to 450 KB with this software, without actually compromising too much on the resolution.
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