Jpeg images - advice please

When I had my old camera, about a million pixels, it used to take nice pictures that converted to Jpeg, of a size anywhere between 100 - 300kb at the most. Me new camera, 6 million pixels, takes lovely photos, but the Jpeg images are around 3mb!</p>

Is this right, or am I doing something wrong, cos the problem is, they take ages to load onto Hotmail, and I can't do more than a few photos in one message or it blows the box apart at the other end.</p>

Cheers.</p>

 

depends what programme your using to convert them and what whoever your sending them to wants to do with them.... if they only want to view on screen and not print them then if you can (programme dependent) resize them to about 15cm at 72dpi... will be fine on screen to look at and wount be a big file size size either....

 

Check the SETUP function in your camera

There may be a number of different quality settings. The higher the setting, the bigger the file produced. For emailing or screen viewing you only need a low-ish setting - not the lowest one but somewhere middle to lower middle (depending on the scale you have)

 

I shoot in RAW which gives massive images, then make copies of them all in Jpeg form. As you can imagine these are still a very large size, but i only send them at that size if the person receiving them intends to print them out,

I otherwise use a small programme called. "Photocleaner" this does clean the images up but i do not use those settings, there is a setting for resizing, i convert any i want to send via email or to post onto the BB for instance via a Photo hosting site to a size of 800 x 600. THe programme works out if they are portrait or landscape and alters the setting accordingly.

The images are then about half a meg or so. and easily sent online. Most Image software does have a resizing option and you could try different settings by "Saving as" then you still have the original image as you would name the changed image differently ie,, DC0001 original and DC0001a as the reduced size image. You can save it as many times as you like till you get the happy medium between size and quality, but remember to open the original each time to reduce as jpegs are not lossless and you will get deteriration each time you alter a jpeg.

 

J Peg Pictures

the 3 plus MB is a good size for printing but to send on EM convert to a PDF file (use lowest file size for Web) or you can downsize the J Peg in any decent picture programme, as mentioned use 150 - 200dpi and compress to 5 file should be about 200 to 300Kb