As an avid digital camera enthusiast and intermediate level graphics person, I'll try and address some of your questions.
If you're using OS X and the camera's drive shows up as a HD icon on your desktop you're done! There should be a folder in that icon with all your .jpg files in it. If the camera has the ability to take movies they will either be in their own folder, or more likely, in the same folder as the .jpg files. They will probably have either a .avi or .mov file extension on them. Simply copy the folder with the images to your hard drive and then you can do whatever you want with the images. I categorize mine by making various folders. Some folks store their pics in a database, but that seems overkill to me (but then again, I know nothing about databases).
The question about changing the size of the pics can get pretty complicated. I'll try and keep it topical. There are two items that judge the size of the picture: physical size and kilobyte size (or MB size). 2.1 megapixel (MP) shots can range between 500 kb to 1.1 MB per image depending on if the camera is set to "standard" or "fine" compression mode. You can use iPhoto's (OS X only) "constrain" edit command to resize your pictures physically. In other words, 2.1 MP is about 8x10", you can use iPhoto to "make" it 3x5" or 4x6", etc. However, in iPhoto this will not reduce the resolution, per se. Don't be afraid of Photoshop. It challenges me sometimes as well, but there is only one command you need to worry about. Open your pic in Photoshop, go into the "Image" file menu (which is there in almost all new versions) and go to "Image Size..." and click on it. This dialog box allows you to lessen *both* the physical size of the pic and it's resolution. 100 pixels is roughly equivalent to 1". Lowering the resolution will lessen the quality of the picture, but you have to go pretty low for the human eye to notice. You may have to lower the resolution if you want to use the pic on the web. You will see the MB size of the pic get smaller when you reduce the resolution and/or physical size. That is normal and may need to be done to email it. Most email servers like the total MB of an attachment(s) to be 1 MB or smaller. So you can do one or two pics at a time depending on the compression setting.
You said your camera has "2mb." Are you referring to the size of the internal memory? Or did you mean it is 2 MP (megapixels)? It's probably 2 MP (going by the price) and I love 2 MP cameras. I have an Olympus C-2100 UZ with a 10x optical zoom. I wanted the zoom more than the MPs, but 2.1 MP has never let me down. The wife took her 2.1 Canon Elf to Mexico and she had them printed on film paper and they are just as good as 35mm film pics at 4x6 size. Even as high as 8x10 can pass for "near photo quality" with 2 MP. I had an iPhoto wedding album book made of pics from my C-2100 and some pics were full page and they looked pretty damn good, I thought. 4 MP is pretty close to "true" photo quality. Here are a couple of excellent sites to research digital cameras and learn lots of cool stuff:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/
and
http://www.dpreview.com/
On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 06:45 PM, Ray wrote:
I just bought a Visioneer 230 Digital camera at BestBuy for $129. It has 2mb and 3x optical, so that seemed like a good price. There is no Mac support and you just end up with a hard drive icon on your desktop with jpeg.
I was wondering what is the best way to reduce the large jpeg pictures you get. Do you lose image quality when you resize them? Adding more resolution makes them smaller and wondered if this was a better way to print them out. I wanted to just make some smaller pictures out of them. It doesn't come with any software to help me. I have Photoshop but I find it a bit difficult to use. Are there other programs that makes it easy to make them standard photo sizes like 3x5 or 4x6, etc.
thanks
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