? about reducing pic size

[DeChamp]

I have been scratching my head trying to figure out what I need to do to reduce the size of dig. pics. to send to the members tank forum and to frag.org. can anyone out there help me with this little problem? Thanks

 

[Len]

You will need software to do this. Most photo-editting software (including ones that come with digital cameras) can reduce file sizes and image dimensions. Photoshop is the most popular and powerful tool for photo-editting and the one I highly recommend. Some cameras come packaged with Photoshop LE (a limited edition but still with lots of utlities including resizing).

 

[DeChamp]

Thanks len the software I have (Kodak easyshare,dell image expert) doesn't have the reducing feature. Kodak will reduce size in there email feature, but not to send a file to your forum. Maybe I'm going about it wrong! In photoshop I would assume there is a feature that reduces file size and lets you save that size file. Is this correct?

 

[Anonymous]

If you have Photoshop, then yes, you should have a reduce image size feature. In Linux, I'm using Gimp, and I would right click on the image, highlight "Image", highlight "Scale Image", then click. Then what comes up is a dialogue box that gives me the option of reducing it by pixel size or percent. I almost always use percent, cuz my brain works that way.

With ACDSee (my favorite Windows flavor photo editing tool), I had it right there in the toolbar up top. A friend of mine had given me a free photo editing program he'd found online, I believe it's called "Irfan".. I'll do a quick search.

Always remember to "Save As" and give it a different name, or you'll lose the original.

If you'd like, you can email the pic(s), I'll reduce them, then send them back. Just pm me and let me know.

 

[Anonymous]

I'll be damned! A GIMP for Windows! Hoo yeah! 8O

Another free download (btw, I am the queen of free to cheap.. or is that I am all about free to cheap? In any event).. called PhotoPlus5.5 from an outfit called Serif.

Another free download editor.

And.. another.

Have fun!

 

[Ryan7]

I tried photoplus and I could not save any pitures into a format that reefs.org accepted for upload. Do I do something wrong?