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Digital Photos
Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 4:23 pm
by Arab Nights (imported)
I finally dumped the laptop I have had for four years. It really had been a great tool for totally changing how I did things. I write reports and use a lot of photos in those reports. On that laptop when I opened a digital photo, among all the stuff like rotate left or right that I could do, I could resize the digital file (not resize the picture - that was different). I remember options like book or report, website, etc. The first option really significantly reduced the digital size of the photo.
I now have a new laptop and when I open a photo I do not have that option. It was handy because I could trim down photos to keep a report small enough that I could still email it as an attachment. I honestly do not remember if that option was with some software that I downloaded when I bought a digital camera or if it came with the Windows on the computer
Does anybody know where that ability to reduce the digital file size came from. I have been to Best Buy and the camera desk at Walmart and nobody can tell me how to reduce digital photo file size.
Can anybody help. It is a pain loading down a Word document with big picture files.
Thanks
Re: Digital Photos
Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 4:30 pm
by tugon (imported)
What operating system are you using? I have Windows 7 and resizing photos is fairly easy. I store the photos in Picture Library and right click on the photo and click edit and then resize. Of course for a different OS I am not sure.
Re: Digital Photos
Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 5:02 pm
by Dave (imported)
Arab Nights (imported) wrote: Sat May 07, 2011 4:23 pm
I finally dumped the laptop I have had for four years. It really had been a great tool for totally changing how I did things. I write reports and use a lot of photos in those reports. On that laptop when I opened a digital photo, among all the stuff like rotate left or right that I could do, I could resize the digital file (not resize the picture - that was different). I remember options like book or report, website, etc. The first option really significantly reduced the digital size of the photo.
I now have a new laptop and when I open a photo I do not have that option. It was handy because I could trim down photos to keep a report small enough that I could still email it as an attachment. I honestly do not remember if that option was with some software that I downloaded when I bought a digital camera or if it came with the Windows on the computer
Does anybody know where that ability to reduce the digital file size came from. I have been to Best Buy and the camera desk at Walmart and nobody can tell me how to reduce digital photo file size.
Can anybody help. It is a pain loading down a Word document with big picture files.
Thanks
I have a Macintosh and when I open a picture in the "VIEWER" program, there is a "tools" option in the menu bar. It lets me crop, resize, adjust color and turn/flip the picture. I can also "save as" a different format (native format for Mac is the huge TIFF file). I can rename the file with "get info" on the "right click" menu (right click or "control click" on a Mac) and rename the file.
There should be some easy picture viewer that lets you do these basic changes to a file.
I haven't run Windows (any version) in 5 years but I could easily find the commands or the programs that do it.
Re: Digital Photos
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 5:05 am
by Arab Nights (imported)
Here is what I finally came up with.
Open My Pictures.
Copy photos to My Pictures.
Open Microsoft Office Picture Manager.
Shortcuts>My Pictures>left click on picture>Picture>Compress Picture
Right click on picture>Copy>Right click on My Pictures>Paste
That reduces it from MB to KB and it is no problem to email a 50 page report with 30 photos
Re: Digital Photos
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 7:31 am
by Caith721 (imported)
Microsoft Office 2000 included a Photo Editor program that was reasonably well-featured, but they removed it from later editions of Office, presumably because they integrated many of the features in their Windows Photo Viewer. Unfortunately, not all of the features survived the integration.
Re: Digital Photos
Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 3:48 pm
by artisticlicense (imported)
I do tons of photos daily, but Win-7 has no batch-photo-reducer. I use Visualizer Photo-resize, free-ware; available from Softronic (
http://visualizer-photo-resize.en.softonic.com/), Snapfiles (
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/vphotoresize.html), and software.informer (
http://visualizer-photo-resize.software.informer.com/). It's also available from many other download sites.
What camera are you using? Many new cameras have the ability to 'size' photos, as you take them. Look in the 'Menu' for "Picture Quality", or an image of/for thumbnails/against a larger photo (Olympus and Kodak). If all your photos need web-based settings, just pre-set the camera.
Re: Digital Photos
Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 10:26 am
by _g (imported)
Do you wish to resize the photo for web, or just increase the compression of the file to reduce storage required.
First reducing the image size or upping the compression of the JPG images, both which will damage the image quality making them unacceptable for larger prints.
I use Thumbs Plus, for all my resizing and basic editing I have about 400 Gig of photos and scanned negatives on my computer.
To resizing can be done in Photo Shop, Elemeents, Piant shop, or Gimp (free) plus many image viewing program like ADC, Thumbs Plus, ??? also have this function. But if the document is going to be printed allow at a minim 150 to 300 dots per inch, for Web 72/76 dots per inch is just fine. To save space convert the JPG files to PNG files MSWord does this automatically.
_g
Re: Digital Photos
Posted: Sat May 21, 2011 11:03 am
by KittenAB (imported)
Possible solutions:
Change the DPI on your camera to a lower setting, this can have varying effects so you would have to experiment. Some will actually change the DPI, a JPEG (or similar) compression setting, others will change the actual image size but maintain maximum compression.
Windows: I don't know the new methods for this, sorry.
Linux: Phatch is a great batch resizing tool, though it takes a bit to get use to, it can also process other filters as well.
Mac: I do believe if you were using a Mac you wouldn't be having this problem.
