Digitail Pictures (was Huzzah! (was: Can't open picture attachment))

[Duane Murphy]

--- At Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:43:21 -0500, Mary C. Youra wrote:

>Duane, sounds to me--if your pictures are routinely greater than 2MB, 
>that they are not .jpgs, which is a pretty standard format (perhaps 
>Photoshop?). If you do much emailing, you may want to keep in mind that 
>many ISP's limit mailboxes to only 10MB, which would fill up fast at 
>that rate. Our digital camera typically produces pics around 500k at a 
>resolution for printing, but for emailing, we usually reduce them to 72 
>dpi, and are more in the 100-200 range. iPhoto makes this very easy in 
>OS X, and I've used GraphicConverter quite happily in the past, to make 
>the conversions (depending on the application, it's either as Save As 
>or Export as command).

Mary,
Actually they are jpg's. We use a 3MP Pentax Optio S Digital Camera with
the settings at the highest levels. 2048 X 1536 high quality JPEGs. This
gives us the maximum resolution and quality for the pictures. We can then
manipulate the pictures later to change the resolution.

We sacrifice a bit with the memory card in the camera. Oh darn we can
only take 120 pictures until the 256M is full. :-)

You are correct about email and web use. My wife is still learning how to
adjust pictures for email from these high settings (even though the
settings were here suggestion ;-). She found out the hard way and over
flowed her own mail box sending a few pictures out. 

I don't use iPhoto. I prefer to use iViewMedia Pro. I find it more useful
and friendly. It doesn't make extra copies of my photo's and quickly
produces good web pages.

I need to look at GraphicConverter to work out a simple way to convert
high resolution pictures to Web level pictures.

 ...Duane