Size And Resizing Pictures..again..sorry!

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akglen Valued Member United States 170 Posts	Posted 02/13/2009 2:40 pm I use a Canon sx110is to take my pictures and MS office picture manager to edit them. I am learning but very slowly about taking coin pictures. The only thing I do once I have uploaded the picture onto my computer is crop them to cut out the background. With these two pictures they were 1.3mb and 1.64 after I did that. They were to big to upload into the gallery so I re-sized them. Do I lose too much detail by doing this? If there is a better size or some way to get additional detail please let me know. The second thing I am thinking about is that when I crop the pictures, everything from a penny to a dollar coin appear to be the same size, I lose all sense of scale. Is this something I should take into account somehow? thanks, Report this Post to the Staff

John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 02/13/2009 2:51 pm Why not just use Photobucket.com ? John1 Report this Post to the Staff
chequer Pillar of the Community Canada 4227 Posts	Posted 02/13/2009 2:54 pm with the photobucket, but there looks like lots of detail in those pics to me Report this Post to the Staff
SsuperDdave Moderator United States 23522 Posts	Posted 02/13/2009 6:20 pm Hmmm. 1) Truly excellent pics for an SX110IS. 2) You don't lose enough detail by downsizing to make a difference on a computer monitor. 3) Does your software allow a "quality" setting when saving? I use the Gimp, which is free, and save my images which are to be posted online at a lower quality setting. The 4MB pics I take, downsized to 800 pixels and saved at 60% Quality, fit CCF's Member Gallery (you're eligible - do you have a Member Gallery?) and come in at about 500KB each. Detail is still quite sufficient: I might recommend that you download and install the Gimp: http://www.gimp.org/ It's powerful, and maybe intimidating, but if you use it only to crop, size and save pics it will do the trick. Report this Post to the Staff
akglen Valued Member United States 170 Posts	Posted 02/13/2009 11:04 pm I used photobucket until I got the required number of posts then started using the photo gallery here on this site. I don't know that one or the other is better, each has limits. I guess what I was worried about was the file size, mine seem to be about half the size of SD's and was thinking I was losing some detail this way. I have no idea of what the software I have will do so will have to experiment with it and look into Gimp. Thanks for the idea's, Report this Post to the Staff
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