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Forum and website admin => Support => Topic started by: strad on March 09, 2010, 11:30:35 AM
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What's the best way to reduce the kb size of a picture below the postable limit? I'm certain this has been asked before but I can't find it. Senior moment?
Nigel
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Discovered this recently
http://www.picnik.com/ (http://www.picnik.com/)
Seems quite good for things like resizing etc
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If the picture is high resolution (many pixels wide and high) you can get a long way by just scaling it down to a small enough size that still looks OK. Any simple Graphics editor - even MS Paint using the Image Stretch menu (just set X and Y to the same percentage, less than 100%, and it will shrink the picture) Smaller dimensions will certainly make a smaller file.
A decent Graphics editor (I use GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/) which is powerful and free) should also have a way of setting the amount of compression while saving an JPEG file. The GIMP will let you slide the compression level up and down on a slider bar and shows the actual file size changing as you do it, also previewing the picture so you can see how much distortion is created by the compression. I think Paint Shop Pro can do something like that too.
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Last time I tried uploading using photobucket it allowed me to choose the dymensions and resize it quite easily..
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Thanks for that.
Nigel
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how about Google/Picasa (http://picasa.google.com.au/intl/en/)
.. Senior moment?
are his tunes as colourful as he appears ? ???
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It wasna me!
Nigel