Open the picture.
Then go to "Save As."
This window will open:
Slide the slider however far to the left you want and the size will be smaller.
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| nietzsche Deactivated User 5470 Posts 8/03 |  Posted - Feb 28 2008 : 12:51AMI don't want to change the physical dimensions, I just want to reduce the size of the file. The digital camera I just bought is set at the smallest image--about 280 kb. What I have to do now is take a rectangular screen shot of the image. The new image is usually around 65k. Can I reduce it without using this clumsy technique. How about photoshop or gimp? [Link] |
| Leyden Senior Member The people have spoken. I'm a nitpicking dick. Woo! 8757 Posts 1/04 | Posted - Feb 28 2008 : 1:21AM Open the picture. Then go to "Save As." This window will open: Slide the slider however far to the left you want and the size will be smaller.[Link] |
| Leyden Senior Member The people have spoken. I'm a nitpicking dick. Woo! 8757 Posts 1/04 | Posted - Feb 28 2008 : 1:26AM [Link] |
| BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Feb 28 2008 : 9:43AM I always keep my original image files... the larger the better. BUT, I will also make copies of files in different sizes and/or file sizes for special purposes (ex: reducing something to max 600-pixel width to post to ADT, or creating a reasonable JPEG of something for posting on the internet and/or sending with e-mails). If your purpose is to reduce file size to free up hard drive space, I'd also recommend burning your original files off onto DVDs or CDs -- which are dirt cheap -- so that you don't just discard them after creating your reduced-size images. FYI, I use Adobe Photoshop Elements (less than $100 everywhere). It allows me to do anything in terms of scaling, sizing and formatting that you can think of. Plus, it allows you to easily make corrections to images that make "all the difference in the world"... particularly to images you (and most of us amateur digital camera users) take yourself. One example: I took some pictures of some friends in the lobby of the Polynesian hotel at Walt Disney World. the lobby space is huge and dark and the flash on a camera doesn't help that much. But, tweaking the pics by lightening them and making minor color corrections made "all the difference." Works well with the over-saturated porn pics (the red skin) and screencaps put out by too many industry "professionals" too  [Link] |
| nietzsche Deactivated User 5470 Posts 8/03 | Posted - Feb 28 2008 : 10:48AM [Link] |
| Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99 | Posted - Feb 28 2008 : 11:07AM [Link] |
Gentleman Jon  All-Star Member 1881 Posts 6/05 | Posted - Feb 28 2008 : 12:15PM http://www.download3000.com/download_9302.html [Link] |
| BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Feb 28 2008 : 12:57PM Very often, I can crop out the exact 600 pixels I want to post (so that I don't have to reduce picture quality at all). [Link] |
| nietzsche Deactivated User 5470 Posts 8/03 | Posted - Feb 28 2008 : 1:59PM [Link] |
| Bornyo Deactivated Member 803 Posts 12/04 | Posted - Feb 28 2008 : 9:30PM You drag and drop a picture file on the desktop icon and it resizes a copy of it to 400 pixels wide while maintaining the aspect ratio. Here's the cool part- you can copy that program to another icon and rename it "photoresize100. exe" or "photoresize154. exe" and whatever value you use in the filename is the width of the new image in pixels. So simple a mongoloid can do it. Here's the link. This is the best freeware I'v found in a long time. [Link] |
| ma meeshka Iconoclastic Member 3939 Posts 4/06 | Posted - Feb 28 2008 : 10:54PM easy peasy. [Link] |
| Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99 | Posted - Feb 29 2008 : 12:48AM Sample before:  Sample after:  [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Feb 29 2008 : 3:14AM Before:  After: [Link] |
| kataboom master blaster ad astra per aspera 995 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Feb 29 2008 : 3:26AM [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Feb 29 2008 : 3:36PM What I usually do is save the same image at various sizes in a test folder and scroll through them with Irfanview. If I don't see noticeable degradation, there's not much point in having a larger file size unless it's a priceless family photo or something. [Link] |
| BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Feb 29 2008 : 5:48PM This is why I suggested burning the original large files off to CDs and/or DVDs and keeping them. For whatever it's worth, I make these "perception" calls all the time on IAFD. I have found that I am satisfied with roughly 15-KB files for the 17 hex 200 pixel headshots we add for performers. Other admins are satisfied at different quality levels. Basically, I found no worthwhile benefit for a 30-KB file (over the 15-KB I use) for the pics we post. I also am not satisfied with the quality of the pics that get down less than 8/10-KB. I find it very noticeable at that point (and we no longer need to squeeze pics that small any more to accommodate bandwidth issues and dial-up users). BUT, you better believe I keep the original pics that I create headshots from in their original larger sizes for my own files. Adobe Photoshop Elements (what I use) allows you to "save for Internet" (which automatically creates a smaller JPEG file optimized for the Internet, than if you were just saving it as a regular JPEG file) and allows you to choose any quality setting (in increments of 1-100%). [Link] |
| ChodeMasterJ Perpetual Marxist 5405 Posts 4/03 | Posted - Mar 1 2008 : 1:39AM [Link] |
| kataboom master blaster ad astra per aspera 995 Posts 6/03 | Posted - Mar 3 2008 : 3:18PM [Link] |
| ma meeshka Iconoclastic Member 3939 Posts 4/06 | Posted - Mar 4 2008 : 12:28AM [Link] |
| Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99 | Posted - Mar 4 2008 : 6:38AM [Link] |
| BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Mar 4 2008 : 9:23AM [Link] |
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