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Todos Santos sunsets

Acuity - 8-25-2005 at 01:35 PM

One of the positive side effects of the lousy weather we had last winter - unbelievable sunsets.

..another

Acuity - 8-25-2005 at 01:36 PM

..and one more

Acuity - 8-25-2005 at 01:37 PM

Coool !!

jrbaja - 8-25-2005 at 02:01 PM

How are you able to keep your pictures under 50kb and have them come out that big ?

bajajudy - 8-25-2005 at 02:06 PM

Yeah, How are you doing that?

Acuity - 8-25-2005 at 02:14 PM

Thanks!

Just Adobe photoshop elements, set resolution to 72 (most that can be seen on a screen anyway) , probably medium to low setting on saving as JPEG. They are from a 7MP camera, at superfine seting, so the originals are HUGE.

Yeah But

jrbaja - 8-25-2005 at 02:41 PM

They all come out this big. I need specific instructions for Photoshop. I just shrink them in "Imaging". Is there a better way?

Mas

jrbaja - 8-25-2005 at 02:43 PM

1 more

jrbaja - 8-25-2005 at 02:44 PM

Acuity - 8-25-2005 at 02:51 PM

In photoshop elements (which is just dumbed down photoshop)

Image/ resize/image size ... set to 72dpi. File/save for web/... set quality to a level that keeps just under 50kb.

Hope this helps!

JZ - 8-25-2005 at 02:53 PM

JR: one simple, brute force way is to shrink them in MS paint.

Do a select all, reduce the size by dragging the lower right corner in, cut the non-shrunken picture, new file, paste, and save.

Not elogant, but works.

But, anyway, you need to find a way to make your pictures the size of a full screen. They will be so much more impressive!, those last ones especially! Good stuff!

Thanks you guys

jrbaja - 8-25-2005 at 03:02 PM

JZ, they are full screen size originally. I make copies and then shrink the copies for posting. They are awesome on my screen if I do say so myself.:lol::lol::lol:

JZ - 8-25-2005 at 03:15 PM

Are you sure they are full screen size only, or is the program you are viewing them in shrinking them to fit.

Bruce R Leech - 8-25-2005 at 03:21 PM

some day we will get this figured out.:?:

Most of them come from the camera at

jrbaja - 8-25-2005 at 03:27 PM

1280 something or other and when I view them on here either as a slide show or just opening the files, they fill the moniter.
Then I open them in Photoshop and go to picture size in image. Then I reduce size to 300 as that comes out under and closest to the 50 kb requirement.
I'm going to try and follow these directions one more time. :lol:

I have Photoshop 7.0

jrbaja - 8-25-2005 at 03:31 PM

and I couldn't find "elements" anywhere. Damn.

Skipjack Joe - 8-25-2005 at 04:20 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by jrbaja
1280 something or other and when I view them on here either as a slide show or just opening the files, they fill the moniter.
Then I open them in Photoshop and go to picture size in image. Then I reduce size to 300 as that comes out under and closest to the 50 kb requirement.
I'm going to try and follow these directions one more time. :lol:


Also keep in mind there is no correlation constant between file size and image size. If your picture is simple, that is poor in texture, few lines and abrupt edges - then the file will be smaller in JPEG (which is what you are creating for the internet). An example would be an image that is solid black. If the image is rich in texture, has lots of minute color changes and line edges you will create a large file. Most of my JPEG files will shrink to a 6" by 4" image (at 72ppi) and be less than 50KB. However, I had several images I had to shrink down to 3" by 2" to make it under the 50KB size limit.

So you just gotta try different images sizes and JPEG quality and see the file size that gets created.

Anyone guess where

bajajudy - 8-25-2005 at 04:27 PM

Tucker - 8-25-2005 at 04:42 PM

http://www.forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=3528#pid2...

San Jose Sunsets

bajajudy - 8-26-2005 at 06:37 AM

Last night at my house

Again

bajajudy - 8-26-2005 at 06:38 AM

turtleandtoad - 8-26-2005 at 07:45 AM

JR, you probably have Microsoft's Photostudio, not Adobe Photoshop Elements.

In Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0; Open the photo you want to edit.

Under FILE select SAVE FOR WEB; the photo will be opened in two windows side by side. The right side will be reduced in pixles to a recommended amount. If the whole photo isn't visible in each window you can change the zoom in the lower left corner.

If the size isn't what you want, change the settings in the IMAGE SIZE box. Select APPLY

If the file size (displayed under each photo) isn't correct, change the SETTINGS, either by seleting LOW MEDIUM HIGH MAX or by changing the QUALITY. The photo will and the file size will change automatically.

Play around with the settings until you get what you want and then select OK. The SAVE FILE box will open and you can save the image with a different name in any folder you want.

When you close the original, it'll ask you if you want to save changes. Select NO and you have the original untouched.

The below photo was originally 3072X2048 pixels and 18mb, I shrunk it to 800x533 and High resolution (60%) which resulted in a file size of 49.24 kb.

I'll cover how to do the same thing in Photostudio in a later post.

PHOTOSTUDIO DIRECTIONS

turtleandtoad - 8-26-2005 at 11:43 AM

In Photostudio; Open the photo to be edited. Select EDIT ? IMAGE SIZE, this will open the Image Size dialog box.

Make sure the ?Keep Aspect Ratio? box is checked.

Enter the width in pixels you want (800 or 600 is the most common, I use 800),
Change the RESOLUTION to 70 (that?s about the best that most monitors show),
Change the QUALITY to GOOD,

Select FILE ? SAVE AS; Select a folder and enter a file name,
Set QUALITY slider to 50.
SAVE the photo;

Open Windows Explorer, find the photo, and check the file size. If it?s still too big then do it again (remembering to close the original photo and opening the new one), this time only changing the resolution if it isn?t 70 (sometimes it isn?t, don?t ask), the quality (same here) and then do another Save As.

Check the file size again. If it didn?t change, delete the file (while you still have it open in Photostudio) and do another Save As (this is another ?don?t ask? glitch, Photostudio is a verrrrry buggy program). If it?s still too big, do it again.

I converted this photo and it took 2 rounds to get it to 47 kb. It started out as 4.3 mb and 3072x2048 pixels at 180 resolution, with frequent closing, opening, switching between Photostudio and Explorer, and deleting files I got it to 800x533, 70 resolution, and 47 kb.

Now you know why I don?t use Photostudio!

turtleandtoad - 8-26-2005 at 11:45 AM

Oh, and also that photo was crystal clear when I started!