I have looked for the answer to this question and haven’t found it but you seemed pretty knowlegable on the subject…
I am trying to put pictures in with my posting. When I do, the picture is super large. You said in a reply to someone to reduce the size of the picture (so that the whole picture can be viewed in one screen), however I just can’t quit figure out how to do it. I am using Kodak Easyshare software and I also attempted to use Microsoft Photo Editor. Neither place could I figure out how to reduce the picture size.
Please help if you can!
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Hi, Miller. A real quick answer here, I'm late goin' out the door to a recital.
I called up MS Photo Editor. Here's whatcha want to do.
First of all, can the image be cropped? Cutting out junk that surrounds your main object? If so, you need to draw a selection square/rect around that object: click on the "Select" icon -- it is a dotted-line square in the tool-bar. Then take your mouse, put the pointer in one corner of where you want the image to start, right-click/HOLD, and drag the mouse to make a square or rectangle appear around the area of choice. When you get the area you want, let go of the mouse button and go up to Image in the menu bar, and select Crop.
If you select it wrong, just do Control+Z to undo your selection.
OK, now you have the image narrowed down to the essential stuff, it's time to make the image small enough to fit in the monitor screen. Here's how:
Check the file size (# of kilobytes), and hopefully it'll be reasonable for dial-up folks. I'm out of time, but I'll check back when I get home and see if you need more help. If you're wanting to put the pictures "in-line" (rather than as attachments) that's a whole 'nother ballgame, which I can help with, but would rather do that by email.
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Edited 6/4/2006 8:40 pm by forestgirl
What size do people here prefer? Personally I prefer big, I'm on a fat pipe so download time is not an issue and I run high resolution on a big monitor. I realize others are not and it would be helpful to know what the consensus is on file size/image size. Even in the dial up days I did'nt mind waiting for the big picture because many times the other things in the image were almost as interesting as the subject ie. tools, jigs, shop details in the background.
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
I shoot for 100K max unless i'm posting an image i know someone in particular needs to see. For instance, i sold a vise to a fellow in Breaktime on a really slow dialup, but i felt he needed the resolution, so that's fine. For general consumption, 50-100K is a decent ballpark.
I developed my pic-posting chops on eBay, where time was money (people didn't wait; they left for another seller). I learned how to post a good image, showing what it needed to show clearly, using no more than 30 Kb. When I'm posting on Knots I try to keep it to 50 Kb or less. I have DSL now, but try to keep the DU folks in mind. When I had dial-up, I rarely opened an attachment bigger than 70 Kb
I have a 17" monitor. I'd bet that it's a small percentage of members that have anything bigger than that. I really don't like great big pictures that I have to scroll to see. Granted, if I open the attachment in a separate window, the image shrinks to fit, because that's how I have my browser set, but still.......
One option would be to post 2 files for each pic, one for dial-up and whiney people like me, and the same pic in a bigger file/format for the rich folk who have cable and huge monitors. ;-)
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Edited 6/5/2006 12:28 am by forestgirl
Is your dsl much under 40 a month? Cable has gotten cheaper although we're still dealing with the robber-baron monopoly comcast, at least in my neck of the woods. I have limited time to spend on the computer and the 5 times faster than dsl makes it easier to bear the cost. 21 inch monitors (of the crt variety ) have gotten pretty cheap too. I paid $200 for mine from overstock.com. Hitachi Superscan Supreme model 803. 21 viewable inches. Not rich but I do like bang for the buck! Thanks for the info on the prefered file size and for Iturra Design's info. I know it's a catalog but he's got more useful info in there than most books. Got to get my copy back!!
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. ~Italian Proverb
I know what you mean about Comcast. They're pretty arrogant. Their ads about the big savings if you go with their VOIP are laughable. Almost half-again as much as Vonage. At the time we upgraded, cable was much more than Earthlink DSL. CAble is coming down now. Our 1Year minimum with Earthlink will be up in November, I think. Then I want to go to cable and also set up Vonage for our phones.
I hate the traditional monitors. We have 3 computers, and have LCD screens for 2 of them. Soon hope to have the 3rd clunker replaced. We have a very small house, and my business space is tiny too, so anything that takes up that much space is machina non grata. ;-)
Iturra Rocks!forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Thank you for your reponse. My wife and I did it. My wife is standing over my shoulder right now and she said I worded this poorly. What I meant to say was we figured it out. THANKS ALOT FOR YOUR HELP!!!!!!
Any time, Miller. If you prefer to use your Kodak program for editing, you should be able to find the same commands in that menu. Have fun!!forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
I hope your recital went well.
Ohhhhh, yes, it went well, but I wasn't "reciting" -- it was a performance by the dance school my step-daughter teaches at.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
I hope you do not mind my asking you but I am stuck. I tried to send a text doc on Just OLD Will George but it cannot be opened. Do you know of a universal format that would still keep the file size down?
Thanks in anticipation,
David.
David,
If your document is plain text with no pics or essential formatting tricks (like weird fonts or sparkly outlines) embedded in it, then save it as a TXT file.
Most word processors have TXT as a SAVE FILE option. TXT files are the smallest possible, as they contain only the bits and bytes that represent letters and numbers; and just about every word processing application can open them, including Windows notepad, that comes with the operating system (and there is no doubt a MAC equivalent).
Lataxe
The file you attached was a .met file?? I've never even heard of that format. As mentioned above .txt is pretty universal. Most of us can read .doc, but I often hesitate opening attachments in .doc because of the possibility of a virus. (There's a problem going on right now that Microsoft is supposed to issue a patch for next week.)forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Probably an Omnipage Pro file. It's a popular OCR program, not used much outside that world.My goal is for my work to outlast me. Expect my joinery to get simpler as time goes by.
Do you know if it has a "save as .txt" option?forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Well, it exists primarily to create other document formats. I should think save as text would be within its abilities.My goal is for my work to outlast me. Expect my joinery to get simpler as time goes by.
Thank you all for your help! As John D surmised its an Omnipage Pro Program. Its on my daughters machine and was the only one of many that gave a readable scan for moderate size.
I think I will have it on my tombstone, "Computer illiterate died of Frustration".
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