[Rhodes22-list] Stan's need for picture editor

[JbTek]

My camera has several image size settings. The instructions say,
 VGA for E-mail, 2M for 4x6 prints, 3M for 5x7 prints and so on up to 6M for
8x10 glossy's.
2M seems to work good for me, it E-mails with no issues & looks great ...
flinch all you want.
Jb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Lock" <jlock at relevantarts.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Stan's need for picture editor


> At 11:11 AM 2/22/2008 -0800, Just bent wrote:
> >why don't you set your camera to take pictures at a resolution you can
use,
> >then you have to do nothin.
>
> Every photographer in the world just flinched instinctively. ;-)
>
> Dialing the resolution down on the camera would be the same as using
> the wrong chemistry to develop a film negative (to use an old
> analogy).  You're throwing away most of the image data captured by
> the camera and severely limiting its uses later on (like for printing).
>
> Besides, we're talking about two different things here.  Stan's main
> complaint was that the images were just coming out too large when
> displayed.  This has very little to due with the file size.  It has
> everything to do with the pixel dimensions it was saved at.
>
> Two examples - you could have a 2048x1365 pixel image that only has a
> file size of 200K or so, but you would find it very difficult to view
> on a normal monitor.  OTOH, you could have an 800x600 pixel image
> that looks very nice, but is over a 1,000K in file size.  Those
> variations are a function of the JPEG compression level applied when
> the image is saved.
>
> As a general rule, digital cameras should always be set to save
> photos at the highest "quality" setting possible.  If your camera has
> a RAW setting, even better, use it.  This is your digital negative
> and should be preserved as such.  You can make all sorts of copies of
> that for every purpose you can think off, being careful not to save
> over your original file.
>
> Resizing an original digital image for web or e-mail is a simple
> process as long as you keep in mind some pixel guidelines.  Keep the
> longest side less than 1024 pixels and 95% of users will be able to
> view it without scrolling or truncation.
>
> Cheers!
>
> John Lock
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