Digital photos and size

[gophish Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close gophish]

Mike, just a little advice about when to adjust the photo size.
I do a lot of nature photography (mostly birds, but some landscape and other wildlife also). Anyway, I want most of my photos to be multi use, that is while I do upload a lot of them to various web sites I also have the occasion to print some and sometimes enlarge them, etc. What I suggest people do is to take the photos at the best setting for your camera and then do some post processing on the ones you are going to upload to change the hight and width and then save them with the new settings and use that file to upload. It takes a bit more work but you then always have your original photos at a high res to work with for other purposes. I also many times end up cropping pictures and in that case it pays to have as much resolution as possible up front as you lose resolution (size) when you crop.
For my post processing I use Paint Shop Pro, many people use one of the Photo Shop programs and there are others out there also.
Hope this helps.

[taffy19 Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close taffy19]

Ken, I agree with you 100% because once you have reduced the size of your original digital images, you can never get the high quality back again. I would first back them up on a CD and then play with a duplicate set of images. Very important!

Mike, I thought you had them on an other server already so left that part of. Webshots let you store your original size photo images but I don't know how much storage you get free of charge? Smugmug gives you unlimited space and that's why I use them. They have gone up in price, I noticed but if you use this coupon code ( GsVdQXU5gRKj2 ), you will get $5 off the price. You can download it free and try it out for 7 days. I get a referral fee for that so you know.

There are other sites like this one too, I am sure. I immediately upload all our original photo images here but also make a CD too. I lost my confidence in CDs because I had one the other day that did no longer work. I still had the pictures on my Mac HD so was OK. With Smugmug, you can have private albums and will not show at all on the Internet or you can show a locked album too. I like that feature.

For printing the best photos, you need the best quality your camera will give you as that is the reason they are selling them and keep improving on them too.

[mshatty Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close mshatty]

No, what you need to do is download a free program called Irfanview and use it to reduce the size of the photos you want to upload (640 vx 480 or 800 x 600 are good sizes to reduce to). That way you will still have good sized photos for any other use you may need them for. It can be downloaded from http://www.irfanview.com/ and can be used for a lot of other jobs on your photos as well.

I have used it for years and as far as I am concerned it is better than sliced bread

Dale

Dale,

I downloaded the Irfanview. What a great program! Thanks for the information. It is very easy to use to resize a picture to a 800 x 600 size. This will be very useful.

[mshatty Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close mshatty]

Ok this is a picture that I reduced in pixel size to try to post as a managed attachment here.

[Guest Close Quarterbore]

Ok this is a picture that I reduced in pixel size to try to post as a managed attachment here.

640-px wide is a good size for general web purposes and posting in the forums. It is also small enough that it does not chew up the storage space you are allowed.

[Thirsty Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Thirsty]

No, what you need to do is download a free program called Irfanview and use it to reduce the size of the photos you want to upload (640 vx 480 or 800 x 600 are good sizes to reduce to). That way you will still have good sized photos for any other use you may need them for. It can be downloaded from http://www.irfanview.com/ and can be used for a lot of other jobs on your photos as well.

I have used it for years and as far as I am concerned it is better than sliced bread

Dale

Dale,

I agree with you 100%. I also use it all the time. It will resize pictures and convert the format. The best thing is it does a batch resizing and converting. This works great for video editing.

Mike

[Thirsty Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Thirsty]

Mike if you are using our photo server you do not need to resize anything. i use a 6.1 mega pixel Nikon without trouble uploading to the photo server. Try using it now to see how easy it is. You can always remove the pic later if you want,

Frank,

Do you use a Nikon D70 or D70s?

Mike

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Frank,

Do you use a Nikon D70 or D70s?

Mike

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