Crikey, is that my photo, or Help!!!

[LavronYor]

I have been reading and re reading the articles on photos and I thought I had the grasp of it, until I saw my new mini and realized that so far I have learned sh1+. Can anyone or everyone, one at a time offer the sizes of their pics before they reduce them to 600 pixels wide, and do you use compression before or is it better to let CMON reduce them. The photobucket photos are the exact pix I used to make the vertical. Also, I did properties on some of the 9+ minis and saw sizes like 484K. Is the 100K size restriction until you start producing minis that people actually want to see?
http://www.coolminiornot.com/pics/pics7/img4164648b6c90f.jpg is the URL , the number is 69260. BTW, can someone tell me how to make the URL thingy hide under the word here ?

 

[Ritual]

My pics are usually 1600 pixels wide when I download them from the camera. I then use some autolevels and such filters before I resize it to 600 pixels wide. I compress the JPG files myself because then I have control of what happens. If the pic looks crap I resize it some more before I try saving it again with lesser compression. Works well for me.

About the URL, if you use the hyperlink button you will be first be prompted for what text you want to \"hide\" the URL under. Type \"here\". Then you will be prompted for the URL.

-Anders

 

[LavronYor]

I thought I was doing well to get all three pix in the vertical and then compress it to just under 100 K. I know it is frowned upon to resubmit, but would this be a good time to try again? OH, I will try the hyperlink here thanks, Ritual, and BTW, I am a fan of Happy Tree Friends also.

 

[Mr.S.Marbo]

I think its better to crop, resize and then if you have to compress.. do so before submitting to CMON. Did you enlarge the pics in anyway after downloading them from the camera? You will get that pixel type blocky patches if you enlarge areas and your camera is less than 5 or so megapixels. Its only when you get a camera with 6 mp or over that you can really start to enlarge bits without blockiness appearing. The other thing may be that its compressed a bit too much. Maybe a smaller size picture?

 

[airhead]

Happened to all of us. I went into shock after I saw my first pic posted. I set mine for 400 pix wide and work with the compression until it is just under the limit. That is the jpg that I link. That way CMON doesn\'t get to do anything to it.

I start with a 5 megapixel at fine mode. cut, crop, adjust balances, then fit to CMON max.

 

[Ritual]

HTF rock!!!

Originally posted by LavronYor
and BTW, I am a fan of Happy Tree Friends also.

I\'m glad I am among equals here!

Back to the subject, though...
I use a 2.1 mpixel camera set on maximum quality. That gives me quite sufficient resolution and I never have to enlarge anything, only crop and shrink. And I never had any problems with my pics looking shite. They are not excellent, but the main problem is my lighting facilities, which for the moment are quite crappy.

 

[Dragonsreach]

Basically the pics I take are all at 300 dpi.
The size is around 1400x1890 pixcels, when transferred to the PC.
I resize the image to 600 dpi before I start any work on them, Levels & Colour balance.
Once they are ready to go I check the image size. Open a new file with the image at the same width but double the height and then cut and past in to the new file.
I resize the New file to 350 pixcels wide and save.
Que drum roll and you\'re ready to post. Remember always post with a proper title for your figure and a little description of what you did and/or what you intended. This helps the audience (us) give an opinion.
(Which in my case is usually rubbish. )

 

[vincegamer]

enlarge? never.
I actually like to get the picture smaller than the max allowed. It\'s because I wish everyone did. I reduce my pics so any single image can be seen in its entirety on a standard 16 inch monitor with toolbars at top and bottom.
I hate having to scroll from waste-up to waste-down and never being able to see the whole mini. I think it adversely affects the score I give too.
Size isn\'t everything, just as long as quality is good.
I\'ve also read (and I do it so I hope it\'s true) that if you first save the shot as a .tif file then do whatever gamma correction, cropping and resizing you must, then convert to .jpg you get a better result.

 

[supervike]

maybe that is true...

I have noticed a few times when I took a pic and the setting was on .tif file.

When I converted, cropped, and saved it as a .jpg I liked the results much better than if I had just started with a .jpg.

I thought it was a fluke, but now that you say that, maybe there is some truth to it.

 

[LavronYor]

much thanks

First, thanks to everyone, second, I had forgotten about TIFs, does anyone save as bitmaps BMP and do their correction work before Jpegging it? Not to sound too stupid, but I just discovered Auto levels adjust on ACD. Also, does resizing and then update picture cause any problems on the CMON end?