question about digi camera

[wellhunginktown]

ok well my parents have the digital camera, i took pics of my car with it, but for some reason every website i go to it won't allow me to upload anything bcause the file is over 1 mb big, all i did was just take the cable and hook it into my comp and it took the pics from the camera, anyone have any idea how to reduce the size of the file once it is on ur comp

 

[Weird Harold]

ok well my parents have the digital camera, i took pics of my car with it, but for some reason every website i go to it won't allow me to upload anything bcause the file is over 1 mb big, all i did was just take the cable and hook it into my comp and it took the pics from the camera, anyone have any idea how to reduce the size of the file once it is on ur comp

https://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=319201 ("IrfanView Is the Answer...")

My Sister has the same problem, she has a camera with about a zillion megapixels as it's default resolution and her pictures take about four minutes ech to download when she attaches them to an e-mail even in JPeG (compressed) format.

Almost any image editor can reduce the size -- both the pixel dimensions and the filesize, together or separately.) But the exact process is sometimes a bit hard to figure out or the quality of the reduced image is problematic. Irfanview is very easy to use for resizing.

The problem might also be the native format of the camera -- the same picture in BMP format can be about 100 times as large on disk as it is in JPeg format. Irfanview is also very easy to use for converting from one format to another.

Most importantly for your problem, Irfanview has a batch mode that can resize/convert ALL of the images with one comand so you don't have to do each one individually.

 

[Reloader]

You need to change the settings on your camera to 640 x 480 for posting or e-mailing that way uou will not have to edit your pics before posting.
You don't need to use irfanview. Try ThumbsPlus. It's much more user friendly.

 

[pollyfilla]

IRFANVIEW is a great and FREE piece of Software I believe that it is one of the most popular downloads of all time? Do not forget that when viewing a picture on a computer screen you really don't need the quality of resolution that you may want if you print the same picture. In addition to altering the size of the picture, you can reduce the size of the detail by saving as a JPEG then moving the slide bar in the pop up window to a lower number. It's easy once you have done a few. http://www.irfanview.com/

 

[Reloader]

If you change the settings on the camera to take pics in the correct size to start with, you won't have to go through the trouble of editting them. And the jpeg format is a "lossy" format. The more you edut it, the more the quality degrades. irfanview may be a good program for some, but I have used it and speaking from experience with a lot of graphics programs over the years, ThumbsPlus is more user friendly. All the people that praise irfanview should just give ThumbsPlus a try. What's it gonna hurt?

 

[Weird Harold]

If you change the settings on the camera to take pics in the correct size to start with, you won't have to go through the trouble of editting them. And the jpeg format is a "lossy" format. The more you edut it, the more the quality degrades. irfanview may be a good program for some, but I have used it and speaking from experience with a lot of graphics programs over the years, ThumbsPlus is more user friendly. All the people that praise irfanview should just give ThumbsPlus a try. What's it gonna hurt?

Changing camera settings doesn't help much whenthe pictures are already taken.

Thumbs Plus is a large complex program that is undoubedly very good, but it's not free, and the (separate) manual download for Thumbs Plus is bigger than Irfanview and the plugins for Irfanview combined.

Maybe a good program for someone who is into a lot of image manipulation, but far mor eprogram that is required to solve this particular question.

 

[Reloader]

Go back and re-read my post. Did I say to change existing pictures? No, I didn't.
I said to TAKE pictures at a lower setting on the camera so they won't have to be editted.

 

[Weird Harold]

Go back and re-read my post. Did I say to change existing pictures? No, I didn't.
I said to TAKE pictures at a lower setting on the camera so they won't have to be edited.

No, but then you didn't address the problem Wellhungtown has either.

A pertinent note from the original post:

"ok well my parents have the digital camera, i took pics of my car with it, but for some reason every website i go to it won't allow me to upload."

What he has are existing pictures that are too big and a camera that belongs to someone else.

One other point about camera resolutions -- too big for what you need is better than too small for what you need.

It's easy to reduce the size of an image without losing much quality -- especially if you preserve the orignal. It not as easy to get a quality print later if you start with a resolution suitable for web-posting and e-mail even if you resize the picture to make it bigger.