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onerepmaximum
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Is it a bitmap? It must be if it's that big. Make it a jpg and it will get a lot smaller.
Testosterone boy
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Change the PPI (pixels per inch) in Photoshop.
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alien amp pharm
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In photoshop save is as a lower quality (pixels per inch). However with that high percentage of a reduction, it's going to look like crap.
You will have to scale the image or canvas size too.
Changing to grayscale will also reduce the file size.
You will have to scale the image or canvas size too.
Changing to grayscale will also reduce the file size.
glennds
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when i bought my digital camera it took me forever how to figure out how to resize a goddamn picture! unless you make it smaller it will take forever to upload and download.
most of us buy digital cameras to send pics in emails. the manuals give you NO help doing this. you have to use the software that comes with the camera to resize. you have to figure out what size works. it is a lot of trial and error.
i bought a scanner and have the same problem. where is the GODDAMN thing i scanned in my comptuer after i have scanned it? naturally the manual does not offer ANY help for this.
i love technology but it is frustrating constantly having to learn all these new things. and you know once we learn how to use one thing it will be obselete anyhow.
most of us buy digital cameras to send pics in emails. the manuals give you NO help doing this. you have to use the software that comes with the camera to resize. you have to figure out what size works. it is a lot of trial and error.
i bought a scanner and have the same problem. where is the GODDAMN thing i scanned in my comptuer after i have scanned it? naturally the manual does not offer ANY help for this.
i love technology but it is frustrating constantly having to learn all these new things. and you know once we learn how to use one thing it will be obselete anyhow.
Testosterone boy
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No kidding....I was competent with several image editing programs before turning to photoshop. That is so complicated that it is hard to remember more than a few dozen basics.glennds said:
I have done so many things with computers but all of the change makes me feel like a beginner.
Yep.....bad post for sure. Mostly a vent.
Photoshop makes me feel stupid.
Russian KGB
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Easy. I got this from here, previous posts. Download this:
www.irfanview.com
Right click on the picture, OPEN WITH -> Irfanview.
Go to "Image resize" and enter the desired size in the highlighted box. Let's say you want to resize it to 100, enter 600 or 500 it will do the rest.
www.irfanview.com
Right click on the picture, OPEN WITH -> Irfanview.
Go to "Image resize" and enter the desired size in the highlighted box. Let's say you want to resize it to 100, enter 600 or 500 it will do the rest.
glennds
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hi russian, how are you? 
see my above post about my scanner. maybe you can help me. once i scan documents i can never find where they are in my computer. where do i look so i can email the scanned items? i have on HP 6110 all-in-one at home. i have another HP at my office but it is a larger one.
see my above post about my scanner. maybe you can help me. once i scan documents i can never find where they are in my computer. where do i look so i can email the scanned items? i have on HP 6110 all-in-one at home. i have another HP at my office but it is a larger one.
Try using "Save As" once and it should tell you where it thinks they're going.
Anything over 72dpi is a waste for stuff that you're only going to look at on a monitor. If you're scanning at 300dpi or higher, that's PRINT quality. You don't need or want that for email, or for the web.
And lordy, yes, save to .jpg rather than a bitmap!
One exception: .jpg is a 'lossy' format and it's not good for images you're going to manipulate in Photoshop, etc. For those, see if you can save to the native format of your tool (like .psd for Photoshop, .psp for PaintShopPro, and so on). Then export a .jpg when you're done.
Anything over 72dpi is a waste for stuff that you're only going to look at on a monitor. If you're scanning at 300dpi or higher, that's PRINT quality. You don't need or want that for email, or for the web.
And lordy, yes, save to .jpg rather than a bitmap!
One exception: .jpg is a 'lossy' format and it's not good for images you're going to manipulate in Photoshop, etc. For those, see if you can save to the native format of your tool (like .psd for Photoshop, .psp for PaintShopPro, and so on). Then export a .jpg when you're done.
