[alex57]

Hello,

Last year I incorporated an open source photo album into my website. My digital camera at the quality I selected gives pictures which are roughly 2MB in size. To display these in my photo album I reduced the aspect ratio and the file size decreased a little but the quality decreased enormously.

When I view other photo albums, they manage to have good quality, large photos but the file sizes are in the kbs! How are they doing this? How are they compressing while maintaining the quality.

Any input would be appreciated

[evilfantasy]

What format are you saving them in? Converting them to JPEG will reduce the size drastically.

[alex57]

yes they are JPEG. When they come straight off my camera they are 2MB and 1728 x 2304. I would like to reduce size and file size but maintain good quality and aspect ratio

[Sameh]

Hello Guys,

I think that when we decrease it dimension at the same extension on the paint brush for example, the quality shall be better and the size shall be lesser it before.

Yours sincerely

[jezza]

My camera saves photos the same way. I use MS Paint to shrink them down.

[Sameh]

Dear Jezza,

Also to decrease the size, what about snapshot with print screen key and past it on MS paint. isn't it a good idea?

Yours sincerely,

[serverguy]

Originally Posted by Sameh Dear Jezza, Also to decrease the size, what about snapshot with print screen key and past it on MS paint. isn't it a good idea? Yours sincerely,

Paint is pretty rubbish for resizing photos.

Try Microsft Powertoys Resizer.exe

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/D...powertoys.mspx

Right hand side of screen, five up from bottom.

[Sameh]

Mr. ServerGuy,

It's good program, but it work only on win xp. Isn't there an other that it's work on win vista?.

Thank u again for this program.

Yours sincerely,

[evilfantasy]

The best free photo resizing tool I have used is GIMP. www.gimp.org

GIMP includes everything that a paid for program does. Only it's free.

[serverguy]

This one looks pretty good.

http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm

Gimp takes a bit of getting used to.

[serverguy]

Actually, having just played around with that program, I think it is awesome!!

It can convert whole batches of photos and do all sorts of things to them - automatically.

I reccomend you try it, especially if you have a lot of photos from a camera to convert.

I downloaded the portable version, so you can try it without installing it.

[evilfantasy]

Faststone is one of the best.

[serverguy]

Originally Posted by evilfantasy Faststone is one of the best.

And its free

I can't believe I haven't found it before.

[Sameh]

Hey Guys,

Really thanks, I'll try them and tell u.

Best regards