Sorry - I tried to read up on this with the software I got with the camera and also by Googling and can’t find it - perhaps because I don’t know how to phrase what I am trying to do:
I have a Canon PowerShot SD450 - the PC-based software it uses is Zoombrowser EX. When I take photos and upload them to my PC, each picture is about 1mb - pretty darn big. I have to take each picture and re-size it to “web - large” to get them to be roughly 100kb jpeg files.
My question: Is there anyway I can change my upload settings so that the photos are automatically uploaded at the smaller file size?
If there is an obvious link to a place that explains this, please direct me to it!
Getting the pictures off the camera, step 1, is going to be the same no matter what. It takes the photos off of the camera at whatever size they were saved at on the camera. The only way to make them smaller woudl be to reduce the quality (MP) f the photos you are taking using the camera itself.
If you have photoshop, you can create macros which will search through a folder and resize all the pictures, but I don’t know of other software that will do this for you.
AFAIK, you can’t change it with the software they provide. You can either take pictures at a smaller size, or use another program to fix the photos later.
I searched “photo resize” in download.com and here are the results.
Might I recommend Picasa, from Google (yet again)?. It allows you to resize and export a whole folderful of pictures at one go, and even upload to Picasa Web Albums (currently in beta). It also has a set of basic image manipulation features, which are more than enough for simple everyday use. Best of all is the price, of course: free.
As others have said, uploading generally doesn’t change the images as it moves them from the camera to the computer.
In general, you WANT to take pictures at the highest quality you can. Memory is cheap, and picture quality is vital to getting good images and especially prints. You can lower the image quality and resolution of the images, but that means you won’t be able to print them out in any meaningful manner if you have a real nice shot.
Probably the best thing to do would be to lower the JPG quality, not the resolution. Got to Fine instead of Superfine, it’ll reduce the file size by about half without much noticable to the final image. But you’ll still probably have to resize to email around. That’s where a PhotoShop macro can come in handy.
Probably not what you’re looking for if you want to resize every photo you take, but I have Image Resizer for WindowsXP
Once the images are downloaded, I just right-click on the one I want resized and mouse to 'resize pictures. This comes up, and I pick what I want. The file is automatically saved as new (handily labeled “small” or “medium”) with nothing further required from me. I love it.
Probably not what you’re looking for if you want to resize every photo you take, but I have Image Resizer for WindowsXP
Once the images are downloaded, I just right-click on the one I want resized and mouse to 'resize pictures. This comes up, and I pick what I want. The file is automatically saved as new (handily labeled “small” or “medium”) with nothing further required from me. I love it.
