Great addition and very important :) Chris On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:54 PM, DougT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yep, that is why you should always work on a copy of the photo and not > the original. That way if you mess up or need the photo for something > else you will always have the original to copy and work with. Keep in > mind too that each time you save a photo in jpg format you lose some > quality because of the compression that is inherent in saving as jpg. > > On Oct 24, 11:41 am, "Chris Gutzmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Really you cant compress most photos. JPG's might compress a super tiny > bit > > but normally not. They are by design already compressed as much as they > can > > be. What you can do though is lower their image quality and/or > stretch/skew > > them to be smaller in dimension (maybe thats what you mean by compress) > The > > nice thing about the net is you rarely need to upload a file larger than > > 800x600 in size because if you go bigger a lot of people will have to > scroll > > around to see them which can be bothersome. My suggestion is to get a > > program like GIMP for free (or the tool you were just direct too may work > as > > well) and just change the image size to 800x600 (or whatever you are > aiming > > for) when you do this make sure to keep the image quality at 100% or you > > will lose some picture quality. For the web 80% quality is usually not > > noticable unless you upload huge files. Keep in mind that this change > will > > result in photos that will look prefectly fine on the web but will not > > really be printable to a photo quality :) > > Hope that helps! > > Thanks > > Chris > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
