Making smaller jpg's

[cbwood]

>From: "Gary Berry"
>Subject: GMC: Making smaller jpg's

To make the jpg's smaller, you need to reduce the 'colors' setting. Most scanner & etc use as many colors as it can to get good resolution.
If you take a 24 bit color jpg and reduce the colors to 16M or 256 or even 16, it will bring the size way down..
Most will still look OK at 256..
I normally use Paint Shop Pro (Shareware) to 'adjust' mine...

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[bartz paul]

If using a digital camera, you can eliminate all that file size conversion
hassle by selecting a lower resolution setting prior to taking a picture,
unless you need a higher resolution for another purpose.

And speaking of digital camera's, the one I have takes a SmartMedia card.
To copy/transfer pictures into the computer, the camera comes with a cable
that is inserted between the camera and then plugged into the back of the
computer. Found that Circuit City (@ $80) and Best Buy (@ $100) handle a
diskette (SmartMedia reader) having a pocket to insert the SmartMedia card
into, which in turn goes into the 3.5" disc drive. Naturally, when I went
to get one last Wednesday after work, both places were out of stock. But it
was a stroke of luck!

Found the identical card Best Buy has at @
http://www.buy.com/comp/product.asp?SKU=10022701 for $54.00. Ordered it
last Thursday afternoon and it was waiting on me when I got home from work
yesterday.

Paul Bartz

From: Gary Berry [mailto:duallycc]
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 5:51 PM

My scanner and digital camera creates 300-400kb JPG files. To get them
smaller, I use Microsoft Photo Editor to read them, then just write them
back out (usually with the same name). It always drops them to less than
100kb (usually between 40kb and 50kb). If I do any cropping at all I can cut
that in half again. I've used other photo editors to do the same thing. Not
sure what's going on with the fluff from the scanner/cameras, but I've never
seen a reduction in quality or size.