Photos

[Mike.C]

As some of you will know I recently treated myself to a Fuji S9600, and although I have not had much chance to use it, I thought that as many of you had given me advice about this type of camera, and which one to buy, it was about time I showed you how bad a picture I take.

Anyway while trying to upload the photos I realised that I have made a huge mistake, because Freeshare has a 1.5mb limit and my photos are 4.5mb's. Is there anything I can do, or do I have to go and take some more?

I think the reason they are so big, is because I started by taking photos of the fishing boats out at sea, and as there were nothing more then dots on the ocean, I set the camera to the highest setting of 9 million mega pixels, so that when I hooked it up to the pc I could zoom right in. And it seems that I forgot to reset it for the other pictures I took. Would this cause the big files?

I can see why Alf, Philly and the rest of you like the Fuji cameras and I think it was a great buy.

So is there anything I can do to upload these photos, I do hope so .

Cheers

Mike

 

[DaveL]

Mike,

Are you using XP?

On my machine (XP pro) if I view a folder of jpg pictures and right click on one, then there is a resize option. I don't know if this is part of XP or one of the other bits of software I have loaded.

 

[Mike.C]

Hi Dave, thanks for your quick reply. Yes I do have XP on my pc upstairs, I will pop up there and see if mine does the same.

Many thanks

Mike

 

[CHJ]

Mike if it is not already on your machine then you can download it from XP power toys

A more comprehensive method of sizing pictures is to use something like IrfanView look under batch conversion.

 

[Paul.J]

Mike.
When your thinking of puttting piccys on,set your camera to 1m pixels.
Then in Freeshare,when you openyour piccy choose show advanced settings.Click in box for re-size image and choose 640x480,then upload.
HTH.
Paul.J.

 

[motownmartin]

Mike, have you tried photobucket.

Martin

 

[bjm]

FastStone has a very good freeware package for resizing photos.

Brian

 

[Mike.C]

Thanks guys, I have downloaded the resizer in Powertoys which I believe is what Dave is talking about.

I will let you know how I get on. Thank you all for your help.

Cheers

Mike

 

[devonwoody]

Mike,

Are you using XP?

On my machine (XP pro) if I view a folder of jpg pictures and right click on one, then there is a resize option. I don't know if this is part of XP or one of the other bits of software I have loaded.

I never knew that was there. It works with XP home edition as well.

Mike what imaging software programs do you have?
(many allow you 'to export' and then you put in to a host like photobucket and your problems are also over.

 

[Mike.C]

Hi DW,

I am using the software that came with the camera Finepixviewer. Although I must say that it is very basic and I would like to find a better one. Have you got any recommendations?

Cheers

Mike

 

[Matt_S]

Photoshop is the ideal package but far above and beyond in terms of cost and funtionality for home use. But I know you can get cut down packages photoshop elements it used to be called. Don't know any info on prices.

If you find a way to downsize effectively its always best to take pictures on higher quality if you can afford the hard drive space. As my mum used to say when I left the house; "You can take layers off but can't put them on!"

 

[Harbo]

I agree with Matt - always take the photo at the "maximum" setting unless you are short of memory card space.

I use RAW which gives massive files (but all the info is captured) and Photoshop to photo manage and reduce the size for the web - which is generally a conversion to a compressed file format like JPEG.
For long term storage use TIFF or PSD format.
To keep space on your computers hard drive down, You can store to CD or DVD - but there are indications these will not last forever. So I also back-up to an external hard drive ( you can buy them specially or make your own from a spare hard drive plus external box (£20))

Rod

 

[woodbloke]

Mike - I use XP and open the pictures in Paint and then resize the image to 20% which seems about right. I then 'Save As' iqneljjr7qw9 or similar and then upload into Photobucket, seems to work for me - Rob

 

[devonwoody]

I'm a paint shop pro man myself (www.corel.com) you can usually get a month free trial and they used to extend it if you hadn't purchased. Otherwise there are some freebies on the web.

 

[Alf]

A (free!) alternative to Photoshop might be Gimpshop. I use that for all my scans and most of my pics despite not having a clue what 3/4s of it does... Another Windoze option is Picassa - much more basic but more user-friendly for us techno-phobes (at least it was, but it's a while since I've used it now)

Cheers, Alf

 

[Chris Knight]

Don't forget Flickr - online storage, resizing and linking - either free or paid, the latter with tons of storage. Smugmug is also very good, offers unlimited storage and all sorts of add on stuff like blogs for £20 per year. With the dollar where it is, these services are looking very cheap.

 

[Mike.C]

Thanks everyone, there is certainly a lot there for me to investigate.
I very much appreciate your posts, and if I cannot find what I want out of that lot, then I am a lost cause :lol:

Rod, my camera shoots in RAW but as yet I haven't got around to finding out what it means let alone how to use it.

Rob, DW, I do have paint shop pro?, but it is an old version.

Alf, that Gimpshop looks pretty good.

Chris, I like the idea of online storage at Flickr

Cheers

Mike

 

[Harbo]

Mike, RAW is not difficult to use - you just set your camera to it.
The data is unprocessed and therefore "lossless" - it has not been compressed in anyway and therefore the data contains the maximum amount of info. Probably more for the serious photographers but your camera probably came with some conversion software (to TIFF, JPEG etc)?
Photoshop uses "Bridge" which converts it to DNG or PSD format (and others).
As I said, it is not dificult to use if you have the software and one advantage of it is that you can take a poorly exposed photo and still get something out of it - because the info is there. Big files though!

Rod