qwert
Dec 14, 2010, 7:14 AM
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Picasa should also have some options to resize.
I guess you have your photos straight from you camera, so they must be at 5 or more megapixels resolution. I am too lazy to look it up, but this is something like 3000x2000 pixels, which is way to big.
So picasa surely has some option to resize them. Generally i would suggest a width of around 1000 pixels, unless you have some real great professional grade pictures.
This will save quite some filesize space.
And then when you safe your resized photos, there should be some kind of setting for the quality or compression rate. The lower the quality (the higher the compression rate) the smaller the filesize will be, but also at some point you will see some compression artifacts. So you have to play around a bit, to see what setting is the right one for your program.
My rule of thumb: Normal pictures for web use should have around 100 to 200 kB.
And this example shows what filesizes you can accomplish if you use the above wisely. A nice, big picture, with minimal visible compression artifacts, at under 1kB filesize.
qwert
(This post was edited by qwert on Dec 14, 2010, 7:14 AM)
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