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Friends,
I'm curious how you all edit your images. What software applications do you use and what do you do. I'm not as interested in photo editing for print as I am for editing to put on the web. The difference is that for web images you must find a good balance between image size (in kb) and image detail / size (in pixels).
This came up because I was editing some chicken pictures (for this page: http://www.nifty-stuff.com/hatching-chicks-from-eggs.php ) and I noticed that no matter what I did the size for some of the images was still pretty big. I changed the color depth, image size, compression, # of colors, etc. etc. etc. but I couldn't get the image to shrink. I figured I was just stuck with relatively large images... that is until I got an email from my brother.
His daughter had just got some pics for her 18th birthday and he sent them out to the family. They were medium size, but the detail was really sharp. I expected them to be at least 150 kb, but they were only 38 kb each... CRAZY! I jumped on the phone and asked what he used, I needed his secret. He said he right clicked the image, did "send to mail recipient" and then Outlook asked if he wanted to resize and he said yes. This wasn't the answer I wanted, but at least I know it is possible to have a very clean / sharp image that is relatively small in disk size.
I've been using irfanview, which is free and quick to load. I'm wondering if my problem is just an issue with this free application and its limitations. I opened my bro's image and mine and the color counts, dimensions, etc were all similar, but my image was five times bigger in disk space.
Well, I'd love some feedback. Even if I figure this out, I think it would be good for the community if we shared what programs we use to edit images.
Oh, by the way, my brother said he's a big fan of Adobe Photoshop Elements.
I'm curious how you all edit your images. What software applications do you use and what do you do. I'm not as interested in photo editing for print as I am for editing to put on the web. The difference is that for web images you must find a good balance between image size (in kb) and image detail / size (in pixels).
This came up because I was editing some chicken pictures (for this page: http://www.nifty-stuff.com/hatching-chicks-from-eggs.php ) and I noticed that no matter what I did the size for some of the images was still pretty big. I changed the color depth, image size, compression, # of colors, etc. etc. etc. but I couldn't get the image to shrink. I figured I was just stuck with relatively large images... that is until I got an email from my brother.
His daughter had just got some pics for her 18th birthday and he sent them out to the family. They were medium size, but the detail was really sharp. I expected them to be at least 150 kb, but they were only 38 kb each... CRAZY! I jumped on the phone and asked what he used, I needed his secret. He said he right clicked the image, did "send to mail recipient" and then Outlook asked if he wanted to resize and he said yes. This wasn't the answer I wanted, but at least I know it is possible to have a very clean / sharp image that is relatively small in disk size.
I've been using irfanview, which is free and quick to load. I'm wondering if my problem is just an issue with this free application and its limitations. I opened my bro's image and mine and the color counts, dimensions, etc were all similar, but my image was five times bigger in disk space.
Well, I'd love some feedback. Even if I figure this out, I think it would be good for the community if we shared what programs we use to edit images.
Oh, by the way, my brother said he's a big fan of Adobe Photoshop Elements.
