DG Site Updates: Unable to post pictures to Dave's, 1 by Zen_Man

Zen_Man wrote:
I keep full sized images, but resize in Photoshop or PhotoZoom to less than 1000 pixels wide before uploading here. I haven't tested the quality of Dave's Garden resizing, so I prefer to use something I know about. Down sampling (down-sizing) while retaining as much quality as possible is a difficult thing to do, and some software does a better job at that than others. I also use a third party JPEG compression program (Box Top Tools' ProJPEG), because I think it does a better job of JPEG compression than Photoshop.

For example, the attached picture file size is only 102,191 bytes (99.7 KB) on my hard disk, even though the picture size is fairly large. Because of its relatively small size, it uploads pretty fast, even though we are on the slower-than-DSL HughesNet satellite dish uplink-downlink (we live in a rural area that does not have cable or DSL).

I notice that the file size grew slightly in the process of getting into the Dave's Garden copyright form. The file size here is 104.14 KB (106,638 bytes), which is still pretty small, and not a whole lot larger than on my system.

ZM


This message was edited Dec 26, 2011 10:14 PM