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I've posted a few pics here on the forum...But lately,I'm running into problems....Kilobytes,pixels....????? Is there a good rule of thumb to figure all of this out? HELP !!!

Yes, Dead in OKC, there is. No greater than 36K exact and 500 X 500 pixels.

Thank you Peter.....

There's an excellent free online downsizer at http://www.jpegwizard.com . No software download necessary to use it. They offer it as a free tool to help sell their professional software.

Thanks Dave....

Does anyone have good a good downsizer for the Mac? I have been using preview, but my pictures don't look as good as some of the ones here (but the big pictures look fine)... Or maybe a Linux program (does the Gimp downsize?)?

It looks like some pictures on the forum are bigger than 500x500 - are they linked to external sites?

Tips welcome! Help!

I use Photoshop ... a little over priced and a little cumbersome ... but very powerful ... I quite often have to downsize to 400 or 350 pixels got get the file size down ...

I juggle pixel size and the quality setting in Photoshop to find an acceptable look to the image. Unsharp masking is the final step in getting the image to look reasonably sharp. It does help if the original image is sharp to begin with. Maybe we need some basic photo classes here so that everyone's photos can look as good as possible?

I'm one of the few users left of Corel Photo-Paint. Like Photoshop, it's got a great JPEG export where you can change and preview quality vs. picture size.

For posting pictures here, I'll usually fiddle with the gamma first (if necessary), reduce to the final size (<500 x 500), unsharp mask or sharpen if needed, then output as JPEG usually with the highest quality allowable at ~ 35K file size.

My Olympus D400Z came with Olympus Camedia software whichallows me not only to downlaod oictures directly from the camera, but also to resize the image. I usually start by resizing the larger dimension to 500 (with the Maintain Aspect Ratio box checked, the program changes the other dimension proportionally), save the file as some other name, close the file, and then check the properties of the file just created to make sure it's not over 36K in size. MS Paint (a standard Windows program in Accessories) usually won't work to resize images (Image/Attributes) because it doesn't do well with images that start out larger than the screen; it tends to 'think' that the image is only what is on the screen and ignores the stuff viewable after scrolling.

For folks using XP, there's a free image resizer power toy.

Once it is installed, all you have to do is select the images to be resized, right click and select
resize images. A menu will pop up offering several pre-set sized and the choice to set a custom size.

See:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Gary,
I find it best to do the resizing after all other corrections (curves, color balance, etc.) have been made. Then after I resize the file I will unsharp mask it before saving it.

Jeff, I usually am too lazy to try to tweak my pictures beyond resizing!