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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 ...


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Old 5th Apr 2008, 13:40
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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
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Old 5th Apr 2008, 13:42
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What format are you saving them in? Converting them to JPEG will reduce the size drastically.
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Old 5th Apr 2008, 15:50
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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
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Old 29th Jun 2008, 05:27
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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.

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Old 15th Jul 2008, 11:36
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My camera saves photos the same way. I use MS Paint to shrink them down.
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Old 16th Jul 2008, 16:36
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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?


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Old 18th Jul 2008, 16:06
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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.
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Old 19th Jul 2008, 13:56
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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.

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Old 19th Jul 2008, 14:00
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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.
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Old 19th Jul 2008, 14:02
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This one looks pretty good.

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

Gimp takes a bit of getting used to.
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