[Lowfer] Picture file conversion problem

[Jay Rusgrove]

Bill

You really don't have to go to black and white to save on file size. If you
crop and reduce the size of the image to say 400 X 400 pixels and use just a
moderate amount of .jpg compression you should be able to have a great full
color image in about 25 - 30k. A 200 X 200 pixel image would be roughly 10 -
15k file size.

If you like, send me your full size images and tell me what size you want to
end up with and I'll take care of them for you. I can usually crop, resize,
color correct and sharpen an image in about 30 seconds so.

Jay

Bill Ashlock wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I discovered the digital camera makes a nice scope camera - and the high
> cost for film is elimiated. I'm trying to convert the pictures I have taken
> to black and white files with much lower information content so that I can
> place a number of them in a Word document and send without loading down the
> recipient's computer. The .JPG picture files I have currently stored on my
> computer run typically 160K in size but when I try to modify them to black
> and white they end up being larger, typically 320k, but - as high as 30M in
> one case! I'm currently using IrfanVeiw but without much luck. Anyone have
> some advice?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill A
>
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