Digital pictures are too big these days

MooseJam

The pictures these modern cameras take are too big, 10 or 12 megapixel cameras take huge pictures, they are massive, the sis just came back from hols and wanted to put her pics up on facebook, spent an age resizing them in MS paint , had to shrink them to 20% of height and width to be a reasonable size, I'm sure there was a much easier way of doing it but the pictures are still too big if you ask me, If you printed one out it would probably be A2 :eek:

unreggd

If your not a p*ss-taking troll, you really havent got a clue about image resolution

Taking a 10MP photo and sizing it down to 6 x 4" wont look the same as a photo shot at 6 x 4"

Do ye think everyones jus havin a laugh with stupidly large images??

Tell you sis to use a programme like Pic Shrink
[and not to use facebook, cos its crap ]

5uspect

Most cameras have to option to shoot at downsampled resolutions.
Also downsizing in MS paint is a terrible idea! There's loads of free apps out there that can manage batch resizing.

Film is roughly equivalent to 20MP iirc so we've a bit to go yet!

MooseJam

unreggd wrote: »

If your not a p*ss-taking troll, you really havent got a clue about image resolution

Taking a 10MP photo and sizing it down to 6 x 4" wont look the same as a photo shot at 6 x 4"

Do ye think everyones jus havin a laugh with stupidly large images??

Tell you sis to use a programme like Pic Shrink
[and not to use facebook, cos its crap ]

Thx, I'll check out Pic Shrink, as for if everyone's just having a laugh well I don't know, I'm sure printing them out as photo's leads to good photos, but I don't know what they do with the digital images , I've got a 26 inch monitor and it couldn't display half of my sis's pictures. I'll admit I know nothing about photography though it does interest me.

Ideo

Download the MS image resizer from here and you can resize the whole folder of photos in 2 clicks. they save as a copy and just select large to reduce them to 100kb. easy peasy and theres no programmes slowing you down!

Paulw

You could simply set the camera to take small jpg images. Then you'll have a lot less to resize.

Valentia

Download any or all of these programmes. All freeware all designed to solve all the issues you raise.

As Paulw says you can always set the camera to take small jpegs but that seriously limits your options afterwards.

Placebo

Take photos at a lower resolution.
And then shrink[RESIZE] them in photoshop online or get photoshop and you can set up an automation that will do them all for you automatically.

MooseJam

cheers for the pointers guys, glad I won't have to use mspaint again, shrinking 800 pics was a big pain in the ass !

Valentia

Placebo wrote: »

Take photos at a lower resolution.
And then shrink[RESIZE] them in photoshop online or get photoshop and you can set up an automation that will do them all for you automatically.

Using PS for this is like breaking a ni=ut with a sledgehammer, no need. Better bespoke alternatives available.

unreggd

MooseJam wrote: »

cheers for the pointers guys, glad I won't have to use mspaint again, shrinking 800 pics was a big pain in the ass !

so use PicShrink

ye just drag the folder in, choose the output size and quality, choose the output folder, and ye get the smaller ones in minutes

Bebo/Facebook will lower the quality anyways so no need to be picky

Placebo

Valentia wrote: »

Using PS for this is like breaking a ni=ut with a sledgehammer, no need. Better bespoke alternatives available.

do elaborate

Valentia

Placebo wrote: »

do elaborate

I did mean nut, but you knew that I presume?? Elabourate? I think my previous post did that. PS is around 8 or 9 hundred Euro I think.

Note to self: Must get UK dictionary for Firefox.

Placebo

Yes but he can try it for free anyway. Better long term solution.

whyulittle

Placebo wrote: »

Yes but he can try it for free anyway. Better long term solution.

Not if the only thing he wants to use it for is to resize photos. Can get something free like Infraview and do batch resizing.

MooseJam

got fastone photo resizer from one of the links posted above, seems to be just what I need

Valentia

Placebo wrote: »

Yes but he can try it for free anyway. Better long term solution.

You've lost me, sorry :rolleyes:

Calina

Placebo wrote: »

Yes but he can try it for free anyway. Better long term solution.

I'm up to my eyes but....

Photoshop is not a long term solution for people who are just not going to use all the features of the package. The OP has a number of options. I tend to use IRFANView or, more often than not, Photoshop Elements 5.0. A full PS licence currently is around 850E. PSE at least is around 120. But if the OP only needs to resize then there are free programmes around that will do it. Getting PS is not a solution for anyone only resizing images for Web - I would suggest it's elitist and evidence of more money than sense.

Placebo

Yes i'm well aware of the different packages around, no need to educate me. I was just suggesting that in the long run he MAY need to use features that photoshop offers. There are other suggestions on this thread, mines merely pointing him to a different realm.

Calina

But there is no point in spending 850E just in case he MAY use Photoshop in the long run. It is also a waste of a free trial of that software if you are geniunely clueless as to what it can do for you. It might be more useful at some point in the future but now...no.

It is completely impractical to suggest to someone - who obviously has some deficits in knowledge in the area of what digital image files entail - that they may need software which quite a few people around here who are very savvy on the digiphotography front already don't need or use to its full effect.

Placebo

true, i just looked at it from my perspective, ive been using it for a few years and its just come across a general purpose tool for me. But as you've outlined i suppose not that best option for OP but it was just a suggestion to even try out the tool and get introduced to the unique features it offers over other sole purpose applications.

5uspect

Online Photoshop clone :cool:
http://www.splashup.com/splashup/Splashup.swf

No batch options but its a fun way to have a look at the basic elemts of PS.