I am a new member of Nature Photographers, and recent convert to Digital imaging. My question concerns how to post an image in one of the forums. Recently, I attempted to post a photo in Macro&closeup forum and received an "error" message that indicated the file was "too" large and had to be reduced. How do you reduce your file size for posting? I use Microsoft Digital Imaging software for editing my photos.
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Sanford dickerson
Posted by Toni Lankerd on November 16, 2007 at 9:12 AM
Welcome to NPN, Sanford.
I'm not familiar with Microsoft Digital Imaging, but I downsize an edited Tiff image in Photo Shop by reducing the pixel size to within the allowable maximum (720 or less), and compress the image to less than 200kb when saving the file as a Jpeg. Hope this helps!
Posted by Sean Bagshaw on November 16, 2007 at 12:11 PM
"Size" means more than one thing for a digital image. Size can mean pixel dimension - there are limits for this in the NPN posting guidelines. Size can also mean file size - there are also limits for this in the NPN posting guidelines. "Resizing" in either of those senses is software specific. Most explanations you see will be for Photoshop, because PS is the big dog in this world.
Forgive me if you already understand this. I'm just remembering when I started digital photography and found the size issue confusing. It was a minor "aha" when I realized that size and size were two different things.
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Sanford dickerson
I'm not familiar with Microsoft Digital Imaging, but I downsize an edited Tiff image in Photo Shop by reducing the pixel size to within the allowable maximum (720 or less), and compress the image to less than 200kb when saving the file as a Jpeg. Hope this helps!
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"Size" means more than one thing for a digital image. Size can mean pixel dimension - there are limits for this in the NPN posting guidelines. Size can also mean file size - there are also limits for this in the NPN posting guidelines. "Resizing" in either of those senses is software specific. Most explanations you see will be for Photoshop, because PS is the big dog in this world.
Forgive me if you already understand this. I'm just remembering when I started digital photography and found the size issue confusing. It was a minor "aha" when I realized that size and size were two different things.
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