Reducing the size of pictures. "Frank Martin" <fm[ at ]general.com.au> 12/5/2008 6:11:44 AM I take pictures at full resolution which is 5Mb per photo. I want to reduce the size to about 50Kb for emailing. When I do this the quality is very bad, and much worse than many photos on the internet taken with a cheaper camera with far less resolution. Is there a special technique for doing this? Frank

Re: Reducing the size of pictures. "John Inzer" <oobie[ at ]doobie.xyz> 12/5/2008 6:27:42 AM Frank Martin wrote: [Quoted Text] > I take pictures at full resolution which is 5Mb per photo. > > I want to reduce the size to about 50Kb for emailing. > > When I do this the quality is very bad, and much worse than > many photos on the internet taken with a cheaper camera with > far less resolution. > > Is there a special technique for doing this? > > Frank ================================== Try using the following free WinXP PowerToy: OK, go to the following link and download and install: ImageResizer.exe http://tinyurl.com/2meyw or... http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx Then you can open any folder that contains images and you will have an option to resize. Just right click the selected image files and choose Resize Pictures from the menu. You can select one image or a whole group. The program will place the resized copies in the folder with your originals. (Tip: *Never* overwrite your originals) To insure that images in both portrait and landscape orientation are resized to the same dimensions...go to...Advanced... and enter the largest number in both fields. IOW...for 600x800...enter 800 in both fields. Personally, I use 1024x768 for e-mail... slightly larger file size (+ - 100kb) but you can experiment. -- John Inzer MS-MVP Digital Media Experience Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk

Re: Reducing the size of pictures. "Didier" <didcelse[ at ]gmail.com> 12/5/2008 3:45:38 PM You can try this (french only) freeware : http://dicel.free.fr/reduila/Reduila.zip drag'n drop your picture into main window, select percentage, size and destination folder, press Enter....

Re: Reducing the size of pictures. "Jim Cladingboel" <carramar[ at ]tpg.com.au> 12/6/2008 5:12:37 AM "Frank Martin" <fm[ at ]general.com.au> wrote in message news:OMmxzBqVJHA.4632[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >I take pictures at full resolution which is 5Mb per photo. > > I want to reduce the size to about 50Kb for emailing. > > When I do this the quality is very bad, and much worse than many photos on > the internet taken with a cheaper camera with far less resolution. > > Is there a special technique for doing this? > > Frank > IrfanView is a remarkably good freeware program which can not only adjust sizes, but can do so in batches. It will also convert .JPGs to TIF and vice versa singly or in batches. HTH, Jim.

Re: Reducing the size of pictures. "Mike Cawood, HND BIT" <me[ at ]privacy.net> 12/6/2008 8:28:41 AM "Frank Martin" <fm[ at ]general.com.au> wrote in message news:OMmxzBqVJHA.4632[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >I take pictures at full resolution which is 5Mb per photo. > > I want to reduce the size to about 50Kb for emailing. > > When I do this the quality is very bad, and much worse than many photos on > the internet taken with a cheaper camera with far less resolution. > > Is there a special technique for doing this? > > Frank > Use IrfanView - www.irfanview.com to resize & then apply sharpening after resizing (both from the 'image' menu). Regards Mike.

Re: Reducing the size of pictures. "bm" <Darroch[ at ]aol.com> 12/7/2008 8:41:40 AM "Frank Martin" <fm[ at ]general.com.au> wrote in message news:OMmxzBqVJHA.4632[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >I take pictures at full resolution which is 5Mb per photo. > > I want to reduce the size to about 50Kb for emailing. > > When I do this the quality is very bad, and much worse than many photos on > the internet taken with a cheaper camera with far less resolution. > > Is there a special technique for doing this? > > Frank The simple way is to right click the photo and select "send to" then select "mail recipient" A small window opens and you select "make smaller" The email opens with the photo attached By using "control" of course you can select a batch of photos. When you say the quality is bad do you mean as viewed on the screen or when printed The quality shown on the screen is the same whatever the resolution of the photo. Blair