I continue to be plagued by.................

[Spearhead]

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<p>PPI should not be ignored when resizing for web display any more than DPI should be ignored when sending an image file to a specific printer. Most monitors can only resolve 72PPI</p>

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<p>This is nonsense. Monitors display pixels, not inches. PPI/DPI, it doesn't matter, in the header file it's usually called DPI and it's irrelevant.</p>

 

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<p>sending anything higher is a waste.</p>

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<p>Actually it's exactly the same size file regardless of what you put in the field.</p>

 

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<p><br /> try sending a 72DPI file to an inkjet printer and you'll end up with a fuzzy image.</p>

 

</blockquote>

<p>Exactly. Printers use inches. Monitors do not.</p>

 

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<p>Oh, and good luck, Jeff 8-)</p>

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<p>I need it. It's amazing that people still don't get this.</p>

<p>Nobody should ever pay attention to the 72 number. When you display on a screen, only the pixel dimensions matter.</p>

[ibdnzgr]

<p>As a professional wedding photographer, I really can't go emailing over 1,000 6mb files to a customer. I upload all my edited images in full resolution to my pro account at smugmug.com where they may be displayed at various resolutions and downloaded at those sizes as well as the full resolution image. You can see what I am talking about on my account there ... http://ibd-designs.smugmug.com. Also, if you want to get a discount on joining smugmug, you can use my coupon code: tzuOgkf1Q1pBk<br>

<br /> Another quick and dirty way of downsizing photos is photoshop's automated web gallery tool. You can specify the pixel dimensions of the large images as well as the thumbnails. I just generate the gallery and delete all but the images folder. Then I just use those files as a low-resolution version suitable for email.</p>

[Brad_]

An image, set to 5 PPI:<P>

 

<center>

<img src= "http://pages.sbcglobal.net/b-evans/Images46/Rock5.jpg">

</center><P>

 

Same image, set to 1,000 PPI:<P>

<center>

<img src= "http://pages.sbcglobal.net/b-evans/Images46/Rock1000.jpg">

</center><P>

 

Which one looks better?

[mike dixon]

<p>The middle one looks the best.</p>

[bgelfand]

<p>Or you could simply send the full sized file using this site:<br>

<a href="http://www.filemail.com/">http://www.filemail.com/</a></p>

<p>You can send files up to 2 Gigabytes in size. It is free.</p>

<p> </p>

[mike dixon]

<p>Most people don't want to receive files that are several megabytes in size and require scrolling. The question wasn't "how do I send huge files?"</p>

[Spearhead]

<p>The files aren't even emailed with that site. It sends a link to download from. It's just ftp, not email.</p>

<p>And Mike is right, most people want email files that are small and manageable.</p>

[walter_strong5]

<p>OK, I followed Don E's instructions for resizing in PWP and its working perfectly. I'd tried that before but was attempting to put in new figures using the calculater keypad and of course that didn't work. I appreciate everybody's input.</p>

[htarragon]

<p>Why not? Isn't your NUM LOCK on?</p>

[parszab]

<p>Gimp? http://www.gimp.org<br>

An example save for web plugin for gimp: http://registry.gimp.org/node/33</p>

[matt_needham]

<p>Use the free software that came with the camera. I'm not sure where the resize function is in Canon DPP, but in Zoombrowser (which Canon includes with their compacts) it's under export. I find 600 to 800 pixels the wide dimension works well for email and the web.</p>

<p> </p>

[patricklavoie]

<p>Brad i like the second one better ; )</p>

<p>What is the purpose of you sending big image? to be print or just to be seen on screen?</p>

<p>You can go to image size in Ps and enter 800 pix wide let say, so your image will look big, will not be huge in size, will probably dont need the use of the slider to see it full.</p>

[patricklavoie]

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<p>I need it. It's amazing that people still don't get this.<br>

Nobody should ever pay attention to the 72 number. When you display on a screen, only the pixel dimensions matter.</p>

</blockquote>

<p>Like sRGB for web, Like not all printing method need 300ppi, Like my uncalibrated monitor dont look like my print...i know and understand your suffering ; )</p>

[josephbraun]

<p>Brad, that 's a cool shot!</p>

[carlwakefield]

<p>If you use Windows XP or Vista you probably have Windows Pictures manager a free bee. See picture, click edit and choose a predefined size that suits your needs. Its no photo shopo or light room but if you can not aford these then it will do to send an email picture to a friend.</p><div></div>

[markci]

<p>Ignore the DPI stuff. As Jeff says, total nonsense. It controls the size the photo will be went sent to a PRINTER. I has no effect whatsoever on screen display.<br>

Also, for god's sake ignore the person who told you to buy Lightroom. You have all you need. Picture Window Pro is a professional caliber graphics program. It's damn near as good as Photoshop, and better at some things. Figure out how to use it to resize images.</p>

[phule]

<p>[[The problem with Picassa is that my images have to be stored in Picassa. Then when I try to find them through Picture Window Pro there is no way to access them.]]</p>

<p>I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this. If the photos are stored on your computer then they are accessable by many means.</p>

<p>If you mean "I made updates to images in Picasa but those updates are not reflected in PWP" then there are two solutions:</p>

<p>1. In Picasa click on "Save To Disk" in the library view (there will be a Save To Disk" button for every folder you've worked). This will do two things: First, Picasa will create an "Originals" folder under the folder you're working it. Into it it will move the original JPG file. Second, Picasa will create a new JPG file where the previous one existed. This will have the changes you made with Picasa. </p>

<p>Picasa's goal is to be non-destructive with editing. If you want to revert back, it will use the Originals folder to bring back the image you downloaded from the camera.</p>

<p>2. In Picasa click on "Export." Pick a size (by pixels) and click ok. It will make a copy of the original file, resized to your specification, and place it in the directory you specify. The default is probably your desktop.</p>

[don_e]

<p>"OK, I followed Don E's instructions for resizing in PWP and its working perfectly."</p>

<p>Excellent, Walter. I didn't mention to rename the image when you save as, but someone else did. Renaming (but not the .jpg part) prevents overwriting the file you opened in the editor.</p>

<p>May I offer some advice? Although you are not a beginner in photography, it seems you are one when it comes to the computer-side of photography. I recommend you post those kinds of questions to the Beginners forum rather than this one. The reason being there are way less odds of getting bad advice; the moderator will be on the lookout for such and delete or correct those responses. There has been a lot of irrelevant or bad advice offerred in this thread.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

 

[joe_le]

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<p>images that're too big to send by e-mail without producing a HUGE image.</p>

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<p>Have you considered using file splitter? There are many file splitter utilities to split Jpeg or mpeg files into manageable sizes for emailing and rejoin back together at the other end. I have done this for 30MB panoramas that I wanted to send to a friend who would like to view them in detail. Just do a Google search or go to Cnet.com; there are a bunch of utilities to split and join large files.<br>

Joe</p>

[Spearhead]

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<p>There are many file splitter utilities to split Jpeg or mpeg files into manageable sizes for emailing and rejoin back together at the other end.</p>

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<p>Did you read the question? This is what he wants to do (and has now been able to do):</p>

<p> </p>

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<p>produce an image size that does not require the use of sliders to see the whole picture</p>

 

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<p>It doesn't sound to me like he wants to reassemble a huge image at the other end.</p>

[don_e]

<p>This is a a very entertaining thread. My fave post (so far) is the one recommending using Perl to resize. Just the thing for the naive computer-user.</p>

<p>Keep 'em coming. It's a slow day here.</p>

<p>.</p>

[longname]

<p>Got Paintbrush?</p>

[pascalb]

<p>The easiest of all in WinXP/2000 is the Image Resizer Powertoy (can be downloaded from Microsoft):<br>

Once installed, right click on the image, go to resize, select size and there it is! You can even select multiple images at once.</p>

<p><img src="file:///C:/DOKUME~1/Pascal/LOKALE~1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /> <img src="file:///C:/DOKUME~1/Pascal/LOKALE~1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/images/enhance_resize_01.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="283" /><br>

<img src="http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/images/enhance_resize_02.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="161" /></p>

<p>What could be easier?</p>

 

[greg_alton]

<p>1) Fire up your Mac.<br>

2) Use iPhoto (included).<br>

3) Share > email > resizing choices presented automatically, fires up email program. Multiple at a time if you wish.<br>

Original file is retained, different sizes for different folks in each email, no strain.<br>

Graphic converter is also awesome.</p>

[waldo_lee]

<p>I cannot believe how many people ignore the fact that Walter said he only has Picture Window Pro (a very capable program) and that some respondents "are talk'n about skills and software I [i.e. Walter] can only dream about." Then they blather on about what they would do with software that Walter doesn't have.<br>

Walter, those who wrote specifically about what to do using Picture Window Pro gave you good advice. I can only guess why the others gave you next-to-useless advice.</p>