I have a Brandnew Digital camera, and after I upload my photos, to my documents folder,(pc) they are over 1MB in size. I have a really hard time uploading them to the web because of their intense size. Keep in mind, that im aware that you can edit these with MS paint...etc, but how can get I them down to under 100KB "in size" by default.

Is this a Camera setting? or is there a setting in my Nikon transfer software? or something else??

It really bugs when I have to edit each individuall photo, down to 1/10 its size, just so I can upload it. What gives?

It's probably a camera setting. Go into your Menu or Settings and see if you see something like "Picture Size". I know for my Canon the options are XS, S, M and L. I usually keep mine on XS or S for web stuff.

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With fear and trembling I have to disagree with Lisa on this one. Lisa is so good I can't ever remember doing it before! But here goes. (Actually I suspect Lisa does this too, just didn't think to write about it with this answer)

If you lower the camera setting for quality you are going to produce an inferior image record that cannot be improved should you want to use it for any other purposes. The more pixels (and larger file size) the better the picture quality.

Not only that, the camera is extremely unlikely to have such a small file size option as to solve the problem (I would say totally incapable of having one but someone would no doubt find an exception).

What you need to do is use an appropriate graphics program to help you with your image. IrfanView is a free program that even a lot of Photoshop users take advantage of for this purpose because it is so fast and simple as well as capable of opening almost any image.

Open your image in IrfanView (or other program) and resize it for the space you are going to use (choose "Image" then "Resize/resample..."). There are two settings you want to pay attention to when setting the image size you want.

First is the dimension settings (width and height). If your image is large, say even 5X7 inches and you print it at about 2X3 inches your file will be almost 6 times bigger than needed for the space and take 6 times longer to download due to the size settings alone.

Second is the pixels per inch. For the web your pictures only need to be 72 dpi. This is where you really save file size. The number of pixels per inch determines the quality of your image. The better your camera, the higher number of pixels it is capable of recording. This is great for prints but unnecessary for use on your web site. I just resized a 5X5 inch picture with only 200 dpi (camera images can be many times larger--this is one I already highly reduced) to 72 dpi. This extra reduction alone reduces the file size from 732 kilobytes to 30.9 kilobytes.

So by resizing your image file in this very simple way so that you change its width and height to what you actually plan to use on your site and then the dpi to 72 you will have a very small file rather than a large one you will take care of your problem easily.

Sorry this is so long for such a simple operation, but I have tried to be as specific as possible to make it easy to follow.

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James you are not allowed to disagree with me. LOL!! (I'm kidding of course) Actually I'm glad you posted. I rarely edit my digital camera photos in software and my camera settings (I believe I have it set to Small) have just always worked for me even on the rare occasion I edit them in another program. But your advice sounds a lot more accurate if you want to preserve the quality and do other things with your photos. So you're off the hook.

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Yes my Nikon camera has this option. The tip was very helpful, thank's Lisa.
My pixels are now set to 640x480 pixels.

And thank's James, this is good optional info to know, especially when it comes to the quality of photos. Ill definitely keep this on the back burner

I use GIMP (freeware) to resize my images. It is excellent for that.

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Hi there

I found the posts here interesting as am also keen to resize many photos all at once. I thought I'd go have a look around Google, and am pleasantly amazed at what's out there.

I found this site

http://batch-image-resize.qarchive.org/

and they have 50 different programmes to download that resize images in batches for you. There is a fee for most of them, but there's actually some free ones there too - they have comments from users on how effective they found the resizers to be.

An excellent, helpful site, I think.

This is pretty good .. and best of all .. it's free ..

Enjoy!

Pic Resizer

You'll also find some other great free software on that site too ..

Each camera brand is a bit different.

Some brands use "best" "good"
others actually change image size easily in their menu using various resolution sizes
others use S M L XL

DOwnloading is always time consuming

I normally change the resolution using my iphotoplus program which is so much easier than some of the fancier programs. It also allows resizing freehand or %, or px/ inch etc

I can't believe that nobody mentioned Adobe Lightroom in all of this.
It is spendy but the options it provides are well worth it. The ability to batch convert your files or batch resize are great. and the auto lighting fixes and hues are a big bonus as well. this also has a built in photo gallery for flash in it. Drag and drop the images you would like to use and it creates a flash gallery ready for the web.

Here is a good look at everything it can do for you.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/re...ghtroom1.shtml

An idea of what can be done with it.
http://projectphotoshoplightroom.com..._47/index.html

I do use image optimizers to compress my digital pictures without any noticeable loss in quality. S

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