In article ,
Wayne Cook wrote:
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:26:28 GMT, Ignoramus22094
wrote:

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:23:44 -0800, xray wrote:
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:15:55 GMT, Ignoramus22094
wrote:

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:08:54 -0800, xray wrote:
On 19 Dec 2005 10:03:24 -0800, "Too_Many_Tools"
wrote:

I really don't understand why people feel that they need to shoot a
large megapixel file when a 1-2 megapixel photo will do just fine.

Or less, even. For most web stuff pics of 800 x 600 are more than enough
for most stuff and thats about .5 MP.

Pity the poor dial-up surfers.

I would think that even poor dial-up surfers would prefer to be able
to see very detailed, highest quality pictures of the items that they
are buying.

Sellers (like myself) can include clickable thumbnails in their
auctions. That lets users see things at a glance and, at the same
time, see great detail by clicking on thumbnails.

i

I the real world, I rarely see a picture over 1 MP in size that is taken
well enough to justify the extra bits. Usually, I can just tell in great
detail that the picture is out of focus or poorly lighted. I much prefer
a good picture to a big picture.


True but it's hard to find a good camera that doesn't have a rather
large MP size now days. I usually shrink my images to half there size
before posting to my home page. Even then I get a few who complain
about size.


The jpg you post is a product of the PeeCee software you use to crop
and resize the shot from the camera. Any camera.

You shoot at the highest quality setting the camera allows, which
produces the biggest file. Copy it to the computer any way you can
and start up the software that came with the camera.

Pick the desired use for the picture. Most computer screens are 75dpi
(aka pixels/inch). A fancy screen is 100dpi. Good printing is
200dpi-300dpi. With that in mind you crop and then resize the picture
to the size, in pixels.

You can do a bunch of stuff after that but finally you want to save
you work. Look for a "save for web" command and you can pick a quality
level, lower quality producing a fuzzier picture of smaller size.
You have to experiment.

One tip; Never when working with jpg files, never
save-open-edit-save on the same filename. You will get "compression
artifiacts" due to the decompression/recompression.. Always save on a
new file name. Always work from the original. TIFF and RAW formats
are not compressed but yoiur camera probably doesn't produce those.

If you have no software look for irfanview (free)
(http://www.irfanview.com/). It can do most or all of what you need.
If you want a step up, buy Adobe Photoshop Elements.

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