[AMRadio] Digital Pic help

[Phil (VA3UX)]

At 08:06 AM 3/25/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> > .  .  .   to do my resizing and it seems to work pretty
> >good.
>
>Why are you resizing? File the image exactly as you find it. Your viewing
>prg will automatically show it 'full screen' if you enable that option.

Hi Bill.  I'll answer to the group since it appears there are several 
members interested in this subject.

The issue isn't filing the image.  The issue is resizing the image to an 
appropriate size for inclusion on a web site. My uneducated reasoning is 
this : I take the pictures with the highest resolution possible with the 
dig. camera with the idea that this gives me maximum detail to work with 
for generation of thumbnails and reduced images for web pages.  The camera 
only spits out JPGs, and the max resolution JPGs I do get from the camera 
are far too large for a web page - both physically and in terms of file 
size. Resizing to 50% produces a nice file and image size for a web page, 
but resizing smaller seems to result in some loss of sharpness.  That's the 
part that I'm trying to improve if possible.  And I've had a few tips but 
won't be able to put them to the test 'til later.

Thanks Bill

Phil


>Whenever you 'SAVE' a jpeg after cropping or other such manipulation, some
>quality will be lost. So only do a SAVE if you are changing formats (bmp
>to jpg) or if you simply /must/ crop out something or other. There IS
>reportedly a very new prg that claims 'lossless' jpg SAVEs, but I've not
>verified this. But routinely SAVing images so they all are 640x800, or
>whatever, makes no sense at all.
>
>Bill
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