Jim Lawrence (AccessD)
accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Jun 3 12:48:26 CDT 2003
Hi John: Do you have any photo-editing programs. Adobe Photoshop, Corel, Photo Paint, Fireworks etc?? In these type of programs are the only place properly edit these pictures. First reduce the picture dpi to 72 anything larger is a waste. That will reduce most of the size. If the picture is still too large reduce it appropriately by using the 'canvas' option. There should be no loss in quality! If you have access to a program like Adobe ImageReady or again Fireworks you now have access to any excellent set of routines for expertly reducing the images for web display. No thumb-nail image should exceed 10K and no full-size image should exceed 50K. The recommended maximum for any one web page is 50 to 60K. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John Colby Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 7:21 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT: photo size on web site LOL. I saved them as JPEG, compressed waaaay down from the original (about 1/10th the original file size). The original was a 3.2 mpixel at about 1.5 mbyte. The pictures on the site are about 150 kbytes. Any more compression and they look horrible. The compression and file size has nothing to do with the pixels though. The image is still a 3.2 mpixel image, it's just highly compressed. The way it was explained in something I read is that since the image is 2048 x 1536 pixels, if the user downloading the picture is displaying 800x600, only a very small part is going to display on the screen, requiring scrolling. Thus I need a method of constraining the display in a frame inside my site, where the entire image will be automatically sized to fit inside the frame. John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 10:10 PM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: photo size on web site On 3 Jun 2003 at 21:51, John Colby wrote: > I am trying to work with photos on a web site. I have created a flash photo > album with a bunch of thumbnails. When you click on any thumbnail, the > photo is loaded into the browser. Because of the resolution of my camera > (apparently), the picture is huge, with most of the picture off of the page. > Is there any way short of saving the file back out as (perhaps) a 640 x 480 > file to cause the photo to load with the whole thing viewable on the screen. > > I am trying to do this on my web site, to display photos of my son I have > taken with my digital camera. It seems that one could use an image object, > and load the picture into that image object (control) on a web page. I am > using Dreamweaver. > > You can see what I am talking about by visiting my site and clicking the > bottom button - "Meet my son". > No way am I going to try it if you have photos that size on the site :-) You *could* make it viewable on screen by setting the properties of the img like this: <img src="images/myphoto.jpg" width="640" height="480"> But that would be VERY rude to the people using the site who would suffer from long slow downloads and waste a h*ll of a lot of bandwidth since they would still be downloading the huge files. The simple answer is that web graphics should be optimized for web view before you put them on the web site. There is no point on downloading a 500KB file at 1800 x 1200 or whatever and squeezing it into a 600 x 400 frame when you could just download a 50KB 600 x 400 file in 1/10th of the time. In this case, grab a copy of Irfanview and resize/resample the pictures down to the size you want them to be with a jpg compression of about about 70%. The pictures will look great on screen but will be quick to load and won't use a lot of bandwidth/web server storage space. -- Lexacorp Ltd http://www.lexacorp.com.pg Information Technology Consultancy, Software Development,System Support. _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com