Having taken some digital photos on my Fuji camera and transferred them directly to my laptop which accepts the card from the camera, the resulting Jpegs are good but seem "large" in terms of file size (about 350Kb) each. As I would like to send them all to a dial up connection, I would have preferred these to be under 100Kb each.
Should I have taken the photos themselves at a lower resolution, or how can I further compress the file sizes without losing too much definition?

 

use photoshop or something, or reduce the pictures physical size

BB

 

If you have a photoshop version with the 'save for web' capability, use that. Adjust the detail level to about 70% and save. This will reduce the file size substantially.

Alternatively, resize the image down (to say 600 * 400 pixels) and save as a jpeg image. Normally you set a level of compression when saving as ajpeg out of most photo packages - look for an options button when you click the save-as button.

hth
Cheers
Dave Adams

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[Edited by Dave_A - 4/29/2003 1:11:19 PM]

 

DaveMiddleton,

I got a copy of Adobe PhotoDeluxe Home Edition 3.0 included with my Fuji camera (FinePix 40i) which does all kinds of picture manipulation.

Did you not get any such software with your's??

mb

 

You could try PSP7 and just resize the image. Do you have Kazza??? If so you can download it free from there instead of paying £125.00.

The Daza

 

Thanks for the responses guys.

Boomer, I do have PD3 but cannot get it to compress the file further once changed from a pdd. file to a Jpeg. Am I missing something as the resulting Jpeg is what I am referring to as being too large a file. I would like to shrink further.
What I have done for FUTURE photos is lower the file size in the camera from 1280 x 960 to 640 x 480.

 

I use photoshop 5.5.
File>save for web>settings.

You can have low/med/high.

 

DaveMiddleton,

• Open your JPEG in PhotoDeluxe
• Smudge out any number plates etc
• Click on "Get & Fix Photo"
• Click "Save & Send"
• Choose "To World Wide Web..."
• Click "1 Trim" - if required
• Click "2 Size" - and click on "Photo Size" (this is the important bit!)
• Choose a new (smaller) size - think where you are going to use the picture, e.g. 2" wide for a thumbnail, 10" wide for full sized (or cm, or pixels)
• Click "3 Reduce" - and click on "Reduce Resolution", which sets it to 72dpi as typically used on a screen
• Click "4 Choose" - and click "JPEG Format"
• Choose a new filename and save it
• Choose JPEG Options if required to fine-tune the compression
• Click OK and "1 Done" (or whatever) and voila - jobs a good 'un!

When i exit from PhotoDeluxe i don't bother saving anything else, as the newly created file is all that i need.

You may want to repeat the above with different sizes and compressions until you get your preferred settings.

What i do for my web-site is described at http://www.tab.demon.co.uk/about/FujiFinePix40i.html

Good luck

mb

 

Hello

Just a word of warning though: Make sure you keep a copy of the original 850K picture, just in case you want to manipulate / print it out at a later date.

Steve.

 

I'd like to echo the last post.

Setting digital cameras to lower resolution to keep file sizes down causes more problems than anything I know, and is certainly the thing I'm asked about most often.

Once you got the hang of jpeging them down a bit more for emailing or uploading you won't have any more problems, and memory is cheap these days.

Just remember that you can't increase the file sizes after you've shot them, but you can always reduce them.

Josh

 

XP has a file size/quality reducer for JPEG built in too.....