PHOTOS TOO LARGE

[Chips n dust]

I have been trying to get my photos on to the site but I always get an error message that photo is too Large. How can I reduce the size of my photos to 150KB? I have cropped them to the max but still too large. Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can do this?
Thanks.
Trevor

A day without sawdust is like a day without sunshine.

 

[wayneis]

You will have to use your photo editor, like Photoshop Elements or Paintshop Pro or something like those. The easest way is to shoot your pics in a lower size file to start with.

Wayne

 

[DCBluesman]

Originally posted by Chips n dust
<br />I have been trying to get my photos on to the site but I always get an error message that photo is too Large. How can I reduce the size of my photos to 150KB? I have cropped them to the max but still too large. Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can do this?
Thanks.
Trevor

A day without sawdust is like a day without sunshine.

Also, if you're running MS Office XP you already have the MS Office Picture Manager which let's you compress pics on the fly.

 

[Bev Polmanteer]

I use a program called ACDSee and it is much less complex than photoshop or Paintshop pro and MUCH less expensive. It crops, resizes, adjusts colors etc. Not as many bells and whistles as the other ones but it gets the job done!

 

[timdaleiden]

My digital camera and scanner came with photo editing software that can be used to make the image smaller. It's usually in the edit menu under image size, or re-size.

 

[darbytee]

If for any remote reason you're using a Mac, select the photo in iPhoto, click file-export, and you can manually change the size of the picture. Of course, you probably aren't using a Mac.
-Fred (using a Mac)

 

[pen-turners]

The biggest mistake when trying to post pictures here is that people's cameras take pictures at the resolution required to print them. In any photo editor, if you crop your picture and reduce it's size, you still have to adjust the dpi settings. DPI setting should be set roughtly to 96 dpi for viewing on the computer monitor. This will shrink your photo to small enough to post yet retain all the detail required to view online.

Hope this helps,
Chris

 

[Scottydont]

For a KISS method (keep it simple stupid) you can use Microsoft Paint that is standard with Windows. Open the file in Paint, click on the Image menu, select stretch and skew and reduce it by whatever pecentage you want.