how do you guys all get your pics under 100KB to post in the picture post? all of my pics are way to high over 100KB to post and when I go to resize or lower the quality they all look like crap. I use a lot of my phone on my camera and my Canon Powershot and I use a MacBook. Thoughts?

cello on

Try it in Jpeg format, that's the only way I can get them to post.

yeah all of my pics are in jpeg...odd

Mac.... ha!

coop don't knock it until you try it

No thanks my pictures resize just fine.....

Sorry I'm getting finicky, I need to break my wife of this whole non-smoking thing.

Do you have photoshop?

Look under "file" for "save for web", pick JPEG Medium from the pulldown list and resize the picture as necessary. If you look towards the lower left corner of the save for web window, it will tell you the estimated size before you hit save, so you can reduce a bit more or crop if necessary.

If you use another program to do the reduction, the concept is to not save any of the EXIF data with the new file, no header data, and reduce the JPEG quality to about 30 (you might have to look in the save options of whatever program you are using) this and a reduction in size to around 1024 or 1280 or less should get you under the 100KB limit.

I just open the pic with Microsoft Picture Manager

then edit...then resize until I get below 100kb...you have to hit save every time you resize to see the new size in kb

Erica,

That program doesn't exist for Macs, unless he's running Parallels or BootCamp.

E that's how I do it too.... lmao

You should be able to resize your photos in iPhoto or as TG suggested, Photoshop works well for me...

Get a smaller camera.

use the paint program in the accessories in windows..

easy peasy...

wheel,

When you take pictures.......try to zoom in so that you don't have as much stuff in the picture.

Lose a little weight, that should shrink the size or your pictures. Plus Jilian will be happy and stop yelling for a minute.

"VSO Image Resizer" It is a free software that allows you to re-size and reduce the resolution of your photos. Very easy and simple to use.

IrFanview is another freebie that I have enjoyed working with...surprising number of features for freeware.

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