Bill, Since you have GraphicConverter, you have all you need. Just open the photo in GC and do a Save As. You'll be presented with the option of saving as any of many different formats (you'll select jpeg) and the option to reduce the quality to save size. Experiment with this and you'll see that you can reduce the quality quite a bit - make the photo a lot smaller - without the change be noticeable over the web. You can rescale before saving or during the save process, but I recommend the former.
If you like, you can also do a lot of touch-up in GC, such as the red-eye correction, color correction, of sharpening. It's probably the best piece of shareware I've ever invested in. Bill Holt > From: Bill Micou <derbywiz at mac.com> > Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 10:27:24 -0500 > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: MacGroup: converting photos for web > > group- > One thing that I have trouble with concerns iPhoto and converting > digital photos for viewing on the web. I've been to some of the > meetings when you have discussed photos, but I remain confused. > I have GraphicConverter, and Photoshop Elements 2, but haven't had the > time to work with either yet. My basic question is: If I want to post > a picture on a website, how do I reduce its digital 'baggage' to keep > quality at a respectable point, and let it be viewable for someone with > a slower web connection. All my photos are in the iPhoto app. > Thanks for your help. > Bill Micou | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be November 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
