Reducing an Image
Darksider7 wrote 06/23/2015 at 15:39 • 1 pointLast night made the attempt to include several images onto my Hackaday project pages but ran into a wall. The images taken were all larger than 3mb in size and the system declined them. For the camera, used my iPad Air, but didn't see a way to reduce the size of the image to the required size needed to be published. If you can help that would be greatly appricated, thank you.
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for image compression or scaling I use caesium, http://sourceforge.net/projects/caesium/ , does the job for me.
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For 'real' photographs (i.e. ones taken with my DSLR and lighting setup) I just export them to the desired size from Lightroom. For everything else I use Gimp (most of the time, saving to 60% JPG compression works fine, if I need to go smaller I can also downsample and reduce the pixel count).
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Quick question: is Lightroom an app or full editing software for PC / MAC desktop setups?
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I don't quite understand the distinction... yes, it is a full Mac / Windows application. It does some editing, but tends to avoid the pixel level editing, instead going for a more photo editing approach. (I.e. you can adjust the photo as a whole, or parts using masks, but you can't really change a single pixel). IMHO it is mainly suitable when shooting RAW, since it includes the RAW development tools. If I was shooting JPG I would probably not bother with it...
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I change the settings on my camera whenever I'm taking pictures for this website, less pixels equals smaller file size. I wish HaD would just put in a plugin that would resize them for you
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Right now it's the latest issue in the gits for the devs.
It's coming.
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I use irfanview, it has a batch processing and you can say what is the max size. I normally limit web images to about 6MP (max 3000 on large side) which is under 2MB most of the times.
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It does, thank you
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