Hello again. I am having immense difficulties with some pictures I'm trying to uphold. They must be 600 x 600 pixels and under 240 KB. How can I amend my pictures to fit this? It seems when I get the pixels right, the pictures end up in MBs instead of KBs. HELP!
Klik on the pic and look on page (left bottom) to see size in kbs/mbs. Kbs is small for most pics. Do you have Ms Photo Editor? I load pics there & lighten/darken & file the pic with an 'x' (ann = annx) to show you have worked on the original.
Now check if the annx is smaller/bigger than the original ann. Upload the smaller kb file.
Ok guys. I thought I was on top of all things technical but it seems that this has left me completely stymied. Am I being really dense? I'm assuming that there is nothing I can do to make the picture/file smaller. Is 600 dpi the same as 600 x 600? Nothing I do seems to work . . .
This will reduce to what you require. To test, put your picture on Word, if it takes up half a page its too big and needs reducing to fit quarter of the page.
Open up the pic in Irfanview
Select from menubar "Image"
"Resize/Resample..."
"Set new size" (set the largest number to 600)
"Preserve aspect ratio"
and click OK
As has been noted, 600x600 is a size, whereas 600dpi is a resolution. Looking at your earlier question, you say these are for the web. The normal resolution for the web is 96 or 72dpi, so you are scanning at far too high a resolution. Even good quality magazine pics are normally only 300dpi.
it's easy enough to do - but 600x600 is a bit of a problem - because most pictures are wider than higher
800x600 1024x768
the size you require is square ... so resizing will either make people long and thin - or short and fat
the ideal is to crop the picture and then save it as a JPG
(you can usually play with the compression to reduce the Mbs
the gimp is free - and I also like Irfanview.
another option is post it on www.tinypic.com
and I'll do it and tell you how
AC, if you could help me with this or talk me through this step by step, I would be extremely grateful.
I'm happy to load this on to the website you suggested.
I agree that most of the programmes make it end up as 501 x 600 or 600 x 800, not really 600 x 600 but if you can help me out, that would be so great. I owe you one!
right .... I've started with a huge bmp
3.8Mb (ok not that big - but big)
lets use irfanview
save a COPY of the real pic
open it in Iv
start by dragging a square with the cursor (no tools - just the pointer)
the pointer turns into a cross ... and when it's in the square a magnifying glass with a cross
when its over an edge it becomes a double heated pointer <->
you have two options - you can either use as much of the whole pic as you can
or you can take a particular part of the pic
either way it's pretty much the same - but we don't really want to make anything bigger
start by using the whole pic
draw your square - and drag the top and bottom edges so they are at the edges of the pic
look at the top of the window and it will show various numbers - 274, 200; 900x1200; 1.920
the 900x1200 is what we need
we need to bring the edges in so the display shows 900x900
when you have the bit you want
edit | crop (or ctl+y)
so now we have a square - but it's too big
Image | resize/resample
in set new size enter 600x600
ok
now save asname it and make it a .jpg
at the side you'll see an options window - leave it at 80% for the moment - save the pic
and that's it - done
Ideally you should always downsize - enlarging isn't a good idea unless you have to
RESULT!! AT LAST!!!
Just when I thought that I had computers and scanners down to an art, I've learnt something simple but the solution to what kept me up till early this morning!
I appreciate everyone's help with this but ACtheTROLL, you're DA MAN!!
Thanks so much!!
Hi Mollovi. My understanding is that if you compress the picture, it will reduce it accordingly. How you do it will depend on the 'picture programme' that you are using. Let us know which programme you have & I may be able to talk you through.
mol
download irfanview - it will make life much easier
first - in future I suggest you post an e-mail created for this sort of thing (not your main one) and certainly NOT a number - who knows what "help" you may end up with.
if you've done EXACTLY what was shown
my guess is the file is saved as a .BMP ot Tiff
open it again in
use save as . drop the file type box and select .JPG