resizing photos

[Shawnee123]

See, I always assume everyone has Office. Carry on.

[Cloud]

I found the concept of resizing digital photos an extremely hard concept to get at first, and I'm still not sure I really get it.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

Awwww, no, that's a perfectly wonderful picture. How cute is Darla? She should meet Pilau, they'd make a cute couple.

This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

I think it's a lovely pic.

[Tulip]

Originally Posted by squirell nutkin

It wasn't directed at you, Tulip. It is a joke about there being two types of people: size queens and liars. Meaning, despite someone saying "size doesn't matter" it really does, they are just not admitting it to you or themselves.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh......I get it. By the way, you like to joke, huh? That's a good thing.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Cloud

I found the concept of resizing digital photos an extremely hard concept to get at first, and I'm still not sure I really get it.

Pixels are another measurement of dimension, like inches. This is why bigger monitors (in inches) are designed to run at higher pixels (#### by ####). A bigger screen fits more pixels. Likewise, a higher pixel camera produces, literally, bigger pictures. When viewed at native resolution, digital photos will often be much, much larger (in inches, and pixels) than your standard monitor (you can't hang a 48 inch painting in a 24 inch frame).

I like the resizing tool in IrfanView because it shows you the dimensions in either pixels, centimeters, inches, or as percentages. Also, when you go to "save as" a jpeg, it gives you a quality slider you can use to further reduce the file size without changing the dimensions.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

See, this is what I'm talking about...To hell with 'resizing' a pic. My cat does that regularly. What I need is to reduce the size of the FILE. If I take a picture of, or with, grass, or anything green, or with bajillions of edges, getting the pic file under 175kb for the Cellar, and still have it big enough to look at, is damn near impossible. I use PhotoStudio 5.0, for compression I'm trying Web Resizer, not thrilled with it, but still learning the program. Any compressor suggestions?

The three pictures that xhaos posted in his baby thread were something like 29 inches wide... way too big to see.
OK, I downloaded them, opened in Photoshop Elements (free program that came with a sketchpad I bought), resized them to 12" x 9" (864 x 648 pixels), at a resolution of 72 pixels/inch, and reposted them.
They are about 80/90 kb each.


By the way, I have Photoshop 4.5 but don't use it because Elements is much smaller and does what I want

[Tulip]

Okay, so I tried what Shawnee instructed, just to see how easy it is. Yeah, it was easy, and I did a save as. As I closed the program, it said some things weren't saved. Hmm....so I saved it. And damnit, I saved the original's picture into this tiny picture that I'm not sure how it clear it would look into a 4X6 print. The only reason why I'm upset is because it's my mom's picture. If it were mine, then who cares. My mom would not be happy with me. Anyone know a way to reverse the compression? It's a stretch, but doesn't hurt to ask.

[Tulip]

Seems like no one really needs it anymore, but since I said I'd do it, I looked up the program I use to resize pictures. It's called Image Resizer Powertoy. All you do is right-click on the picture, choose resize picture, then choose small, medium, large, handheld PC. It will save to a specific dimension. (Sorry, too lazy to look them up now.) Anyone who cares for the program, I can either pm or email it to you. Btw, it's a program for Microsoft.

[lumberjim]

fyi.... 600 x 800 or thereabouts pixels and 75-90 dpi usually fits the cellar pretty well

[squirell nutkin]

Originally Posted by Tulip

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh......I get it. By the way, you like to joke, huh? That's a good thing.

You have to laugh if you don't want to cry. Or you could be like Dana and do both.

[DanaC]

*sticks out tongue*

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Flint

Pixels are another measurement of dimension, like inches. This is why bigger monitors (in inches) are designed to run at higher pixels (#### by ####). A bigger screen fits more pixels. Likewise, a higher pixel camera produces, literally, bigger pictures. When viewed at native resolution, digital photos will often be much, much larger (in inches, and pixels) than your standard monitor (you can't hang a 48 inch painting in a 24 inch frame).

I like the resizing tool in IrfanView because it shows you the dimensions in either pixels, centimeters, inches, or as percentages. Also, when you go to "save as" a jpeg, it gives you a quality slider you can use to further reduce the file size without changing the dimensions.

That second window, the "save as" window, has an option that I haven't tried yet, because I never downloaded the plugin, but it looks like it has potential. I'm talking about the "set file size" option where you tell the program how many kb you want the final file to be and it compresses it just enough to fit that file size.

Also, you have different options showing in your resize/resample window. Mine shows standard sizes and I just check the box I want.

[Madman]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

What software do you use to resize photos?

Whatever I happen to click on. Usually I use the Windows OS software (whatever it's called).

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by Tulip

Okay, so I tried what Shawnee instructed, just to see how easy it is. Yeah, it was easy, and I did a save as. As I closed the program, it said some things weren't saved. Hmm....so I saved it. And damnit, I saved the original's picture into this tiny picture that I'm not sure how it clear it would look into a 4X6 print. The only reason why I'm upset is because it's my mom's picture. If it were mine, then who cares. My mom would not be happy with me. Anyone know a way to reverse the compression? It's a stretch, but doesn't hurt to ask.

Ugh...sorry.

After you "save as" it will tell you there are features that didn't save, or some such stuff. I just cancel it, I think. I'll resize somethign later and let you know.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by Cloud

I found the concept of resizing digital photos an extremely hard concept to get at first, and I'm still not sure I really get it.

Originally Posted by Flint

*A bunch of nerdy stuff that is not going to help Cloud*

Cloud, think of it like this: every digital picture has a "real" size. If that real size happens to be huge, a lot of programs are smart enough to zoom out so that it can fit on your screen. So you could be previewing the picture on your computer, and not know the picture is actually giant, because your program has zoomed out to make it fit on your screen. If you want to find out the real size of a file, open it in MS Paint, which will never resize your photos. What you see is what it is. (And if you make it smaller, and save it, that's a permanent change--you can never stretch it bigger again without making the image blurry.)