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On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 14:09:05 -0800, Larry Jaques
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On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 09:31:48 -0800, Gunner Asch
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On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 17:05:37 -0800, Larry Jaques
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http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/Equipment.jpg

DAMN, Ig. I've been meaning to ask you this for years now:

_When_ are you going to learn how to process graphics for the web?
Your images are all huge (5k x 3k pixels) and multi-megabyte. I pare
a graphic like that down to 1024 largest dim and dice it to maybe
100kb. Each is done in under ten seconds, and each loads in seconds.
Yours take nearly a minute on my 4mbs DSL to load. I realize that
some pictures will need to be large to show details for a sale, but
several smaller snippets from one would work better for you, I'm sure.
Consider Photoshop or another image processing prog.


IRFANVIEW is quick and easy. And yeah..took forever to load.

http://www.irfanview.com/
And get the plugins/addons.

Good stuff Maynard!!


Someone else mentioned Gimp, the Photoshop of Linux. I've heard only
good things about it.


Gimp is good and it will run on Winblows as well. They did a major
revision not long ago and its now better laid out and easier to use.
I just downloaded it and installed it, but havent gotten around to
using it yet. Ive used the older versions and they were very powerful,
but something of a PITA to use unless you used it a lot. Im hoping
the new version is a goody..as the digital camera stuff Im doing will
need workable software. Ive used IRFANView for years and its good for
most things..but Im trying for the advanced stuff.

Gunner