Good Day all, Just a question, I wanted to post some of my hand crafted humidors onto the Image forum. I have a scanner and all the equipment (I do magazine advertising layout & design) But the rules say the image must be no larger then 100kb, even if I scan at 72 dpi and make the image 800 x 600 pixels inorder for it to show decent on the form, it's still larger then 100kb. Any help would be appreated. Thank all for your time. Scotty

Are you saving the file in .jpg or .bmp format. Even better would be in .gif or .tif

.BMP format is much larger in size due to the fact that MS paint will be able to edit it.

Just a thought.

Brad

Take a phto scan it. Save as a .jpg and then crop the photo in microsoft paint. Cut the crop. Go up to file hit New when it asks to save the changes to the photo hit no. Then a blank page will open. Paste the cut crop onto the blank spot. Then save the image with save as. Name it whatever. Then check the properties of the new photo and see if it fits the proper file size. Maybe that helps. Sorry if you tried this already.

Dont worry about high resolution. Most of us cant see that well anyway. A low quality pic will do just fine.

I can save it anyways, ie:tiff,jpeg,bmp,gif and so on. I don't use MS Paint, I use photoshop. But I will give it another try. Last time when it was 100kb the image was like a post stamp.........

You can scan the photos at a higher rez it doesn't matter. After you've scanned it use PS to crop and resize the image. Then when you select save as a jpg file. click on advanced and change the quality to around 75%. You won't notice a big difference in the image quality but the size of the file we be greatly reduced.

When you go to save as jpg, click on Options.
Then under JPEG/GIF, you will see JPEG save quality.
Run the save quality down to about 60.
Then save as jpg.
You will then see the file size cut considerably.
If you want a free image program that can help you, called Irfanview, e-mail me and I will send you a URL to download it, along with several other free programs.

tm(at)batauto(dot)com
Have fun.

Thank Nat,
But I was playing around in PhotoShop, and I thing if I save the image to Web output, it will do if for me. So I will give that a try.........

I've done it the way Opatience mentions for all my pics and they turn out fine. When going from digital camera, I first resize the pic to about 5x7 and 96 dpi. Using the save as and the Advanced options, you can see the file size change as you decrease the quality setting.

Scan the picture (only something shot with a Nikon will come out well) on a DigiPro ScanMaster 6000, and save it in DigiPro's proprietary format. Then load it into Illustrator 12 (only available in #warez on IRC) and reformat it as a .ai format file. Read that into PaintShop Pro 4.3 (the last to not have the time-out "feature"), convert it to an R14 AutoCAD file, and plot it to a .pdf. If anybody can see it after that, you're amazing.

I use Nikons, have high end scanners for CMYK output, auto cad (nope) PhotoShop imported to Quark X-Press to export PDF for print optimize.

Windows XP will resize the pics for you