On 16 May 2002, at 22:30, Dianne Gronfors wrote:

> Hello all - My husband has been taking digital photos that he
> needs to send by email.  I have been trying to talk him through
> Photo Express but he is unhappy with the finished size of his photo
> as received through email.  He needs something really simple and I
> was hoping that irfanview would service the purpose.  I've been
> looking at the different option with a raw photo straight from the
> photo card.  I can change the size to a good viewing size but don't
> understand all the options in the Save As menu.  He needs to get
> the file size down to about 50-60 Kb but with a screen size of
> about 8 x 10. Is this even possible?  Is there another application
> that would suit our purposes better. Really basic and really
> simple.  Any ideas?  I'd sure appreciate some advice.  Thanks.
> Dianne

  There are three basic ways to get the size of a digital image down
to 50-60Kb:

1.  Shrink it down from "8x10"  to something more like "wallet size".
I think that's what Photo Express is doing that your husband doesn't
like.

2.  Decrease the resolution, say from 300dpi to 72dpi (a a common
printer resolution).  Can look a lot like 3, below:

3.  Allow .jpg compression to sacrifice fine details.

  I normally use some combination of 1&3 to make small/fast versions
of the mster images which stay at larger resolutions and lossless
(.tif, for instance) compression.

Dave Gillett

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