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Offline Gregg

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« on: May 24, 2006, 08:26:09 PM »
My son has a new digital camera. The pictures he has taken and sent to our e-mail address are all 1 to 1.5 MB in size. Can he use iPhoto to somehow reduce the size before he e-mails them? ...or does that have to be done with the camera, before he shoots the picture?

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« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2006, 09:10:23 PM »
He has a multitude of options, none of which include reducing the size in the camera smile.gif

When exporting from iPhoto, he could choose to scale the images down to a more reasonable size. You get this option if you use Export from the File menu.

Otherwise, he could use one of hundreds of programs to do this before sending them out. One nice (free) program is ImageWell. Drop your picture(s) to the well, select the size as a percentage), and the jpg image quality. It will update the jpeg size based on these settings, on the fly. http://xtralean.com/IWOverview.html
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« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2006, 07:46:47 AM »
Whoa. My post from last night is not here!!!

Thanks for the reply, Mike. I missed it yesterday until evening (see above). When you say "size" do you mean file size, or actually shrinking the image, thus making the file smaller as well?

I have no familiarity with iPhoto. I don't know if it came with the OS. I don't know what level of OSX he has. The iBook he has was purchased in the summer of 2004.

I have used a digital camera at work, but do not own one. I already asked my son in an e-mail if he has iPhoto, and what OS he has. It may be a few days before I get an answer, but he is being very diligent about answering all of our questions when he does respond.
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« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2006, 11:42:04 PM »
Gregg:

My current iPhoto is 6.0.3, from the iLife06 upgrade of iPhoto 5.x that came in my OSX in my 2005 Al/PB.

My impression is that resolution has most to do with the (byte) size of the photo file. iPhoto has no ready way – that I've been to discover –  to change resolution, so that's why I have used PhotoShopElements for that task. ImageWell appears to simplfy that..

Each version of iPhoto has had genuine enhancements.

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Thanks for that ImageWell suggestions, That looks like it will be easier than PSE to "do what needs to be done"!
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« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2006, 11:19:47 AM »
Just before I send the photo to e-mail from iPhoto, a window comes up and allows me (if I choose) to change the size to medium or small.  I usually check medium and it comes through as a nice size in the E-mail.  

Sometimes I cheat and drag the small size picture from the E-mail to the desktop - then I put it back in iPhoto as a small picture.


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« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2006, 01:03:34 PM »
QUOTE(Gregg @ May 26 2006, 06:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
When you say "size" do you mean file size, or actually shrinking the image, thus making the file smaller as well?


I have always used Preview to crop and rename the pics I take w/ my digital camera and import into iPhoto, b/c I find its interface easier to use.

The resulting files are way smaller [filesize] then the original camera pics.

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« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2006, 04:34:58 PM »
For now, he is posting his photos online for us to view. If we download any, I have a couple of programs I can play with them in to see if I can reduce the size to e-mail to grandparents, etc.

Goldberg 2.3
Polaroid PhotoMAX PRO

If anyone knows whether these programs will do that, or won't... please chime in. (Using OS9.2)
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« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2006, 09:31:00 PM »
You can change the size of a picture in Photoshop.

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« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2006, 11:45:52 PM »
QUOTE(Gregg @ May 27 2006, 04:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
For now, he is posting his photos online for us to view. If we download any, I have a couple of programs I can play with them in to see if I can reduce the size to e-mail to grandparents, etc.

Goldberg 2.3
Polaroid PhotoMAX PRO

If anyone knows whether these programs will do that, or won't... please chime in. (Using OS9.2)


Graphic Converter will adjust the size and or / rez of pics, and there's a version for OS 8/9.

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« Reply #9 on: May 28, 2006, 01:33:44 PM »
Photoshop is expensive, isn't it?

I made a note about Graphic Converter. Thanks. (cost?)

I have to get back into Goldberg or PhotoMAX and see what commands are available.
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« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2006, 01:39:15 PM »
Graphic converter is $30. Although you could use it forever in demo move if you want to sit through a splash screen. I recommend registering, as it is very good software.
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« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2006, 01:52:14 PM »
Gregg, there are these possibilities from Microfrontier, as well. These apps are all pre-X.
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