Downsized in photo taking mode before using Tinypic:

[rbgarr]

Nope, that didn't work. Still big pics but with worse resolution.

http://i23.tinypic.com/i5vei1.jpg

[donald branscom]

Nope, that didn't work. Still big pics but with worse resolution.

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If you really want to be able to work with photos you need to get Photoshop. The real Photoshop. Not 4.0 or other weak, limited programs.
Here is why. You can make images smaller, You can adjust the levels of all aspects of the photo (histogram.) Many of the features have an AUTO button to get you started. You can sharpen images . You can sharpen edges. The list goes on and on.
http://i23.tinypic.com/xlbkua.jpg
http://i20.tinypic.com/24xdfed.jpg
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[Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )]

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/fosterhere/L1030868.jpg

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m320/fosterhere/L1030876.jpg

Photobucket when you click on a photo gives you the option to resize it

[Kim Whitmyre]

See my message in your original thread, Dave. If you actually want a premium electronic darkroom, Picture Window Pro is the one. Its creator is Jeffery Sachs, one of the original creators of 123, the spreadsheet that became Lotus123. Designed expressly for photographers by a photographer, the full version is less than $100. I highly recommend it.

Digital Light and Color (http://www.dl-c.com/)

[dpincus]

for cheap and powerful, if a bit clunky try NIH Jimage.

Dave

[Yeadon]

I use Flickr.com, which gives you a chance to pick the size you want before posting it. I don't Tinypic gives you that option. I'd just switch your stuff over from tinypic to photobucket, or flickr, or some similar program.

Photoshop would certainly resize your photos, and much, much, much more, but for this task, it's a bit of overkill. (That said, photoshop is a great skill to learn.)

[John Bertenshaw]

Dave, you'll have a program that compresses for email in your photo software. I have a canon so they have a thing called zoombrowser.(eg)
What I do is set up a file called 'compressed' and 'email' all the pics I want to file. Then I open the photo site upload and upload 10 or so at a time already compressed from that compressed file. That way you keep your original image sze for printing and you're uploading small files for use on the net.

The trick is finding the compression setting which gives the optimum size/ file size for the net ,but when you're using the same camera and same photo settings you'll get a satisfactory compromise pretty soon.

[htom]

I'll plug IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/) ; freeware that I initially used as a browser, but it does resizing and a pile of other things as well that I have not tried.

[Don Z.]

Well, iPhoto has always worked well for me...

[rbgarr]

Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and suggestions. My daughter, son and wife are the real photographers in the family (you should see them laugh at my camera!) and I'll follow along with their plans for another program at Thanksgiving break.

[RodB]

Photoshop is without peer in manipulating images....almost without limits...and is a good investment for anyone who plans on utilizing photography on a regular basis. Images from many of the newer cameras like the Nikon D series (D-50, D-70, D200, D-40 etc... Canon DSLR's and point and shoot models A 500 series and SD 850 etc) ) if set right...take photos that are pretty much almost perfect as taken (matrix meter systems are fantastic)....but most folks do not learn the camera well enough...nor do they capture the image the exact way they want so image manipulation becomes necessary later, not to mention resizing images from print size (say 8X10 @300dpi) to internet lower resolution size (8X10 @ 72dpi or smaller). See www.kenrockwell.com for all the infor you would ever want on digital photography and image manipulation.

Heres what Ken says about photo software...

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/sw.htm#photoshop
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/sw.htm

Photoshop is expensive...the latest version is Photoshop CS3 (Not Creative Suite 3 in total but PHotoshop CS3 by itself) lists for about $650 and if you know a student in any college..they can get it for you for a reasonable price (I'm guessing about $200). Very good "how to" videos exist so you can be up and running very quick.

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/family/

Folks who are only playing around on a limited basis...cannot go wrong with Photoshop Elements....a consumer version of Photoshop for about $50 mail order...

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/

Personally, I couldn't live without Photoshop... and usually every image I take is evaluated, and manipulated to some degree in Photoshop...but I would be just fine with one of the older versions such as 6.0 or 7.0. At minimum I make an image slightly darker or ligher, add contrast, sharpen some, and remove any color casts if present. Sometimes it is necessary to crop the image to improve the composition. Take a look at the following series of threads to see what can be done with just a little work in photoshop and I might add just a little effort to learn enough for some basic tasks. For example, it is quite easy to learn how to place type on the image to annotate some part of an image. No matter how I set up my D200 I can always use Photoshop to improve the images I take.
http://www.woodenboatvb.com/vbulletin/upload/showthread.php?t=70274


Good luck,

RodB

[The Bigfella]

I use a good, if ageing camera - a Nikon D100 for digital work (I still like my ancient Nikon F and F3 for film) - but never bother with image modification. I downsize before uploading to Photobucket by loading the image into Paint and resizing to (normally) 25% x 25% then renaming the file and uploading. I did 6 photos today - took about 3 minutes while I had a coffee.

As for cropping and the like - it can be done this way, but hey - these are happy snaps

[Michael Beckman]

Another plug for Irfanview. This is a very good, free, program for resizing/cropping/saving images in different formats. Also, if you're looking for an easy solution to hosting pictures online, download Picasa2 from http://picasa.google.com/ and register an account with google. You just select the pictures you want in the program, hit upload, and bam, you have an online showcase.

[elf]

Irfanview is PC only. Does not work on Dave's computer. Picasa the same.

iPhoto will allow Dave to resize his photos, export them to a folder on his desktop and from there upload them to his desired web location. It will also let him color correct and rotate and all that good stuff. He should be able to do all that pretty quickly once he's selected the images he wants to put up for us to see.

But it's definitely not as convenient as having the web site do it.

From iPhoto here's how:

Transfer all the pics you took from the camera to iPhoto.
Holding down the Apple key click on each photo you want to upload to the web site where you store them.
Click on the Share menu and choose Export, at the bottom.
Click on the Scale Images no larger than button.
Input 432 in the width space (72 dpi by 6")
Click on the Use Filename button.
Click on Desktop when the directory opens. Click on the New Folder button at the bottom on the Left of the directory. Call the new folder whatever you like.
Click on OK and Create and wait for iPhoto to export the adjusted images to the folder you made on the Desktop.
Upload the images to your website by whatever method they offer from the folder on the Desktop.

Put the folder away somewhere with your other uploaded galleries so your desktop stays neat and tidy.