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Hi all, Just need a little input or should I say advice on the best or preferred method on uploading pics onto a Brickshelf folder. At the moment all my pics are kept in a file I have created. The pics automatically download from my Digi camera as (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) 1.3 Mb? Yowzer... 4-5 minutes sounds right on a dial-up connection, which is what I have. If you have an image editor you could change your files to jpegs, which tend to have smaller file sizes, without losing much quality. You'll get a lot (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Call me a little Naive when it comes to Uploading pics but this would be my first time. Would MGI Photosuite II be the kind of Image Editing program I would need? The strange thing is that when the pics are on my Camera they are actually JPEG (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) I use Paint Shop Pro, and am unexperienced at much else, but as far as I know you should be able to do this in just about anything, even MS Paint. If you go to file/save as, you should get a drop-down box somewhere in the window saying which (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Michael, Thanks for all your help. I found the simple procedure of changing the format to JPEG through the drop down bar at the save as. Too easy. Apparently Brickshelf wouldnt allow the pics I was trying to upload from the folder I had them (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Not exactly true. Older versions of MS Paint do not come with a preinstalled JPG filter, a necessary component for both reading and writing JPGs with image-editing software. If you have the MS Office Suite (I don't, since I use Sun (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.au, FTX)
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(...) Your problems are here: '1.37mg size. The actual photo sizes are 800 x 600' and in this case (from just what you have said) you have done nothing wrong. Its normal too, 1.3meg should take about 5 mins on a normal non cable (broadband) internet (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) Yes, even as a JPG, a file can still be very large. In JPG, there are 3 significant parameters you need to control: * size (height/width) * dots per inch * compression Some programs are really stupid. If you tell them to reduce the (...) (21 years ago, 30-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.au)
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<SNIP> See previous post... Wow there's a free program for batch conversion! Now no one has an excuse not to reduce there file size to atlest a 100dpi image.. I use photoshop, but its alittle pointless telling people to use it (or using it as an (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.au)
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(...) using it (...) I'd agree with this. I have access to Photoshop at work. I would not buy it for home as it costs heaps and frankly is a very difficult program to use -- the paradigm is not intuitive to me at least. Someone showed me how to do (...) (21 years ago, 31-Aug-03, to lugnet.loc.au)
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