Hi
I want to create an album but can't work out how to limit the file size of my photos to 100kb so I can upload them (at least not without the photo ending up extremely small!). Can anyone help? I was previously just using photobucket, but it seems you can't now. If it helps, I have Paint Shop Pro X.

thanks
Joe

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I haven't used the software that you have but I expect there's a way of saving your pictures as JPEGs with varying degrees of quality. Photoshop has the Save for Web option which is very tweakable. It's always a balancing act between file size and quality. Smaller file size, more artefacts, poorer quality. Resolution should be set to 72dpi.

Hope that helps,

SharkeyP

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hmm...I managed to compress one to 88kb, but it seemed to look worse when I uploaded it than I thought it would. It seems some of the photos uploaded by others retain their pin sharpness whereas mine looks a bit fuzzy/blocky (yet the original looks great - such a shame)

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Fish are like sex; tons around but I never seem to get any.

Photobucket still has the facility to resize.It shows as a dropdown when you click options at the upload image site.

jim

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http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

Try this m8 http://www.imageshack.us/

thank looked like it would be just the ticket....except you don't appear to be able to download it anymore!

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arg! Now I'm really confused! I did manage to get the microsoft re-sizer tool - simplicity to use. I resized the photo, and the size was 22kb, and when displayed at full size on my lap-top looked absolutely fine, so I uploaded it....but weirdly, in the gallery, it shows as 11kb, and the quality is no better than the previous one! anyone else had this?

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Hi/

I have an older version of Paint Shop Pro (7), which is a great program for, of all things, quickly resizing and compressing JPEG files. On the assumption that X is no different in the basics to 7, here's how it goes...

Go <Image> <Resize> and you would be as well to make the width (of any landscape-orientated shots) 758 pixels wide, as the software on here automatically reduces the view to 758 wide.

After resizing, go <File> <Export> <JPEG Optimiser> Enter a compression value, eg, 10 or 20... you can experiment with values at this stage so you pick one that gives you your desired file size. The one I tried it on just now went below 100 KB with a compression value of 18 and the image quality was still excellent. For any compression value, It will show you how it is going to look in the preview window.

It will then prompt you to save a copy as... so navigate to your chosen folder and give it your chosen name. Then upload the saved file (sorry, can't help you with that side of it, as I use an FTP set-up). If it doesn't look the way it did when you were saving it, then the software you uploaded it with has been messing with it.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Col

Polite - I noticed exactly the same.
I think 100kb is a little low on space for a photo gallery, although it depends entirely on how much detail is in a shot - lot's of flat areas will reduce the file size hugely, and therefore you can have the image larger.

Paint shop pro should have a save for web function. Just open your image and save it through that process and it should alow you to limit the file size to a certain size, or tweak the image quality, physical size etc to the size and quality you're happy with.