PGM question. How are you guys resizing pics to get under 200000 bytes

[horus-ra-migration]

hate to ask here, but didnt see anything anywhere. My file sizes are almost always too big. How are you guys resizing? what resolution? and what dimensions?

thanks

[Wilson3d]

I scan at (I think) 150 dpi and then save as a .jpg.

[horus-ra-migration]

Im using a photoshop style program to resize but theres no option for dpi. it lists pixel size: height and width. resolution and then print size width height. along with resampling at: by percentage, or by absolute size and with a box for maintain aspect ratio.

[Wilson3d]

I would set the resolution to 150. That is pretty much the dpi. I'm not at home or I would just check my scanner settings for you...

[horus-ra-migration]

I would set the resolution to 150. That is pretty much the dpi. I'm not at home or I would just check my scanner settings for you...

 

oh, the scanner res. hmmm, I'll have to check into that. We were just scanning and then going to resize in the photoshop program. Im not sure my scanner will even let me change the scan resolution, I'll have to check. Anybody else with info, please let me know. thanks

[horus-ra-migration]

ok I scanned at 100 dpi (my scanner doesnt have an option for 150. within that range you get either 100 or 200), scanned/saved as jpeg. Result: file to big for this board must be under 200000 bytes.

 

nope no matter what I do it wont take a pic, even when I reduce down to almost nothing and reduce mb to almost nothing its still giving me an error stating files must be under 200000 bytes. whats even odder is one minute it will take the file and then later it wont take the file even though Ive changed nothing about the file. makes no sense but yet everyone else on here can successfully post their books.

[frozentundraguy]

Try using a shorter name for your books. Instead of Detective_comics_455.jpg,

try DET_455.jpg for example.

[porky]

imgur lets you click an "edit" box as you're choosing what to upload. then you can scale it down.

[frozentundraguy]

I have an example with a book at 200 DPSI, followed by the same book at 300 DPSI. In both cases I set the longest dimension just under 1000 pixels.

 

200 DPSI, notice the "dots"

 

 

300 DPSI, "dots" gone.

 

[John R]

Im using a photoshop style program to resize but theres no option for dpi. it lists pixel size: height and width. resolution and then print size width height. along with resampling at: by percentage, or by absolute size and with a box for maintain aspect ratio.

 

When saving the .jpg in Photoshop, a "JPEG options" window pops up. In the "Image Options" section, click on the drop window and choose either "low" or "med".

 

This should reduce your file size and get you to the range you're looking for.