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Saltwater Offshore Discussion
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The highlight of reading the forums is looking at the pictures you guys post, but geeze-louise…those mega-sized pictures take forever to load.

Not trying to insult anyone…

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Today's camera's have amazing resolution settings that could possibly allow you to print a billboard sized photo with it's megapixel resolution. High pixel resolution is great for printing your photos or making home art, but high resolution is not really all that necessary for posting images on websites or running them on your home computer's slide show. High resolution images are amazing in detail, but they also use up a lot of storage space on your computer and they take a long time to download in forums.

There a lot of free programs that you can utilize to resize your photos from Picasa ( from Google ), the software that came with your camera probably has a resize tool or you can use the photo viewing program’s resize tool from your Windows computer. I’d think that Mac also has a photo viewing program that offers a photo editing tool.

If you want better control of how you edit your photos and if you do not have access to Photoshop, you can get a free copy of The Gimp and do a lot of things that photoshop does. It’s like photoshop lite and it’s free.

http://www.gimp.org/

A small word of caution about resizing photos…once you downsize a photo, you can’t go back to the original size without loss of image quality. For example, if you take a photo from pixel size 3264 x 2448 with a file size 1.38 megapixel and down size it to 800 x 600 with a file size of 204 kb, you can’t really go back to the original file quality.

Another way to thinking about pictures and megapixel size, let’s look at the photo with 3264 x 2448 pixels with a file size 1.38 megapixels. In photoshop, that image is listed a having a paper size of 45" x 33" with a resolution of 72 pixels

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X2

may average ping is 25k and it takes 20 minutes to load some pages!

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I think it may be more to do with the website, than the photos.

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Every Winders computer has “mspaint.exe”… And it has a handy “resize” option… Usually, re-sizing to about 30% or so works good.

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X3 on the picture resizing. It ain’t that hard, even a Cracker can do it:smiley:

Capt. Larry Teuton
912-six55-5674
lteuton at aol dot com

“Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.” -Robert N. Rose

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Yeah but you can do everything.

“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”.

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Not. I sure can’t make cool pens on a lathe like you can, and my wife does brain tumor imaging stuff. Not me. I just know boats, thought I knew fishing pretty good until yesterday :smiley:

But I can resize a picture to where it loads in seconds and not minutes:wink:

Capt. Larry Teuton
912-six55-5674
lteuton at aol dot com

“Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.” -Robert N. Rose

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I could have you making pens in less than an hour with your skills. Not sure I could do brain tumor imaging. I’d have to know what it is first.

“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”.

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Thanks for that info on the resizing. I wondered why it took forever.

John

Pathfinder 23 HPS