Kodak Easyshare.....

beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 3:08 pm

Is anyone else using this program?
How do you get the photos down to the 500x500
size using this? I am baffled....

jps · Post by **jps** » Sat Aug 28, 2004 4:22 pm

Not only do you have to get the pics to 500x500, you also have to set the size to no more than 36k. I am not familiar with the K ES program, I use Photoshop, hopefully someone here can help.

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 7:48 am

I use Irfanview. Just go to www.Irfanview.com and download. Its free, and very user friendly. Someone here suggested it in a post about a year ago. It takes some experimenting, but you can crank out some pretty good pics.

jps · Post by **jps** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:23 am

Have they gotten the insects out of it?

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:05 am

I havent had any problems myself.

beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:15 am

Ok....downloaded it....

Any tips for the beginner? :^)

beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:53 am

Ok..I can't change the KB's...I CAN change the pixels....

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 2:29 pm

Here's how I do it, keep in mind I am self taught on the computer, and have spent many frustrating hours figuring a system out that works for me. That being said lets go!

First I have created two files: Pics to edit, and Pics to send.

I download my pics into the pics to edit file.

I open Irfanview and find this file, then select the pic. It will be very large.

Click on "Image" then scroll to "Resize/Resample"

This should tell you the current size in "Pixels"

I generally dont mess with "height/width"

I use "set new size as percentage of original"

then I select "preserve aspect ratio"

I then procede to reduce the pic 75%-50%-40% to get it close to the size I need for the forum., after a while you develope an eyeball for the correct size.

When I get the pic close in size, I might use "enhance colors" usually only increasing the contrast and saturation just a little.

Then I use "Sharpen" to bring out the detail.

At this point I save it to my "Pics to send" file, (icons set to "details"), and it tells me my exact pic size in kb's. After a while you can look at the pic and know about what the correct size is, if its still a little to big, just reopen your "Pics to send" file and reduce the percentage just a little bit more, save it again, and your ready to go.

Like I said at the beginning, this may be the long way around the barn, but its how I learned to use it.

I hope this is helpful.

beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 2:52 pm

Thanks Scott!! Experimentation underway....

cheyenne · Post by **cheyenne** » Sun Aug 29, 2004 3:05 pm

Oh, one more important thing, the pic is generally way to big, so you'll have to crop it.

When you get the pic reduced to a reasonable size for your screen, click and drag a window around the area you want to save, then go to "edit" and select "crop selection", then continue to reduce the cropped image to size.

I usually do this before I mess with color enhancement or try to sharpen the image.

Sorry, I new I'd leave something out.

beatlefan · Post by **beatlefan** » Mon Aug 30, 2004 7:06 am

....STILL experimenting.....