Smaller Pictures; was: take pity...
- Subject: Smaller Pictures; was: take pity...
- From: "T.L. Miller" t*@mac.com
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:29:17 -0400
On 10/18/05, at 2:55 PM, Gordon Walker, <grwalker@club-internet.fr> said:
>If you use the free program Picasa2, www.picasa.com , you can send images by
>email automatically reduced to a small size of around 50kb.
Having operated a tropical hibiscus mail list for 9 years, how to show
pictures has been discussed many times.
Here are a few suggestions:
1. Pictures taken with a plain background have smaller file sizes than
those with busy (high detail) backgrounds like grass.
2. Pictures needn't fill the monitor: 3-400 pixels wide is enough.
3. Cropping pictures to get rid of the non-essential helps reduce
picture size and file size.
4. Only 72x72 ppi and close to a 50% "quality" if you have software for
photo editing.
4. Better to put on the web and there are websites that make things
really easy for novices -- like <http://www.phanfare.com/> and <http://
www.photosite.com/>
Tom Miller
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