What's on TV??? Do you live in a cave? "American Idol" and "24" are both on tonight.

I'm as happy as a little girl!

Hey,

Your day could have been worse. At least you weren't:

a) pinned down by enemy fire, desparately trying to hold down the flank.

b) having a baby.

c) waiting for the election returns on your bid for the White House.

d) awakened by the sad realization that you are really a liberal.

So....count your blessings.

Well, in photoshop and other pic resizing programs, there should be a "save for web" option that reduces it to a manageable jpg.

I typically keep my pics no wider than 500 pixels by 400 pixels high for actual size (not density).

Cheese, having a baby is a good day.

Ace, a sneaky solution: open a shutterfly account, upload your pictures, and then copy and paste the (largish) thumbnails they create for you to your hard drive. As I recall they're about 60-70k.

There are probably other ways to do this using software, but I don't even know if you have a mac or PC let alone what's on it. This way's pretty simple.

(You can also send them to my other account, not the address above, and I'll shrink 'em for you later tonight. Send them one at a time.)

I vote for juvenile!!!!!

One of the easiest ways to shrink the size of photos is to open them in MS Pain(t) (!) and then go to Edit--->Resize--->and make the percentages equal (Like 50%) Then Save As a JPEG, find the "advanced" tab and pick your compression. No fancy programs needed and every computer runs MS Pain(t)

And where's Dusty!

Ace, What have you done with her!?!

Thanks, I think I've figured it out.

Re: Dusty

Unfortunately, I think that was just a week-long ad. Hopefully they'll buy another couple of weeks.

I miss her too.

Applications: Photoshop, Paint or PhotoDraw.
Photoshop:
- Image-image size- 512x384 px (picture size will be 5x7 inches, resolution 72). If you desire smaller try 300x300 px. (jpg)
- Save for web: chose optimized or play with 2-up, 4-up (gif)
Paint: image-attributes- chose size W&D in px or inches, works approx. 500x380 px
PhotoDraw: same approach.
Size relates to speed of picture downloading. By the way you still have email version from your digital camera, which is smaller of course.

CS

See-Dubya,

Not if it a *guy* is having it!

But you are right - I did word it ambiguously, and I regret the confusion. My apologies.

irfanview

http://www.irfanview.com/

NOTHING is on tv, Ace. Hubby has the controller tonight. No Idol ... no 24 (for me.) I could join him and watch The Natural for the bazillionth time. Don't you men ever get sick of that movie.

Ace, didn't you get some image editing program after the photoshop thread a while back? Resize and edit the jpeg compression.

We could castigate the leftists for their hypocracy re the UN-Congo Child Porn Scandal vis-a-vis the Abu Graib prison scandal.

Or we can comment on how Paula Abdul is finally growing a spine versus Simon.

Ace:

Photoshop etc. are overkill for what you need. Go to irfanview.com, and download the program. It is free, and is the most useful cross-platform image editing software around. It will resample any image (like from your camera) down to a web-friendly size, and you can do basic things like crop it, too.

Web images use 100 dpi maximum (dots per inch). Monitors are either 72 dpi or 96 dpi, so any resolution above that is not viewable on the screen. It's wasted.

Trust the Irfanview. You'll find yourself using it all the time.

... in other words, what River Rat said.

Yeah, whatever. We're still waiting for the clips from your radio appearance.

Sir,

It sounds like the pictures you have might be "bitmap". If this is the case, convert them to jpeg (go to your help section, type keywords: convert bitmap jpeg).

rcl

Hey Ace,

Get the image resizer from microsoft. It's free!!
Get at the MSN download center under powertoys. After you install (fairly easy, but I'm mostly techie so my judgement may be suspect) you can resize by right-clicking. A BIG time-saver if you resize often.

RM

ok, so I'm looking around for the post that compares the carbs in Spicy Pizza Combos and Cheddar combos.