[frankrod]

hey,

i would appreciate any help with a basic question concerning photos on CDs. the company that developed my pictures put them on a CD, which was cool for viewing, but when i tried to download them on my web site it took forever. also, once they appeared on the site, it took even longer for them to appear. the basic problem, i think, is that they are in mb and too large for the web page. question: can i reduce them in size so that they load faster???

thanks, richard

[Davey7549]

Richard
Welcome to TSG!
I see there is a lot to learn here as it was for me when I first started. First there are many formats that are present for you to use, .BMP, .PNG, .GIF, .JPEG and so on. Within each of these formats there are sizes, commonly called resolutions. These resolutions along with file type will determine the size of file you will have as the outcome.
For instance, a raw picture from a digital camera with a 2.0 megabyte range may produce a picture that is capable of printing a clear picture on a 23x18 piece of paper. However for viewing on a website or within an e-mail this is not necessary. So what does one do to reduce the original to a better suited size.
Well they need a Graphics program that is capable of opening, resizing and saving into one of the common formats present on the Web. Jpeg and Gif.....
Irfanview is one of these type of graphics applications that is capable of helping you and it is free.
You will need to download the application of course, set it up, and then read through the help file to figure out how to use it but your ultimate goal is to reduce the resolution\size of the image to an acceptable size for viewing at your website.

Irfanview is quite powerful for a free application, but you need to play with it to learn its controls and abilities as you would a fine tuned performance car.

Hope that helps you get started in your Graphic experience.

Dave

[buck52]

with just about any image viewer/editor it should be easy to resize/resample for web viewing before you upload them to your web page.

make a folder and put the resized for web images in it as you resize them and be sure to save the originals

try Irfanview

buck

[frankrod]

thanks davey and buck. i appreciate the help.

richard

[slipe]

There are “Picture CD” and “Photo CD” disks – both Kodak. The Photo CDs are much better if you can get them done in that format. I know the Photo CDs have the same image in several formats and sizes on the CD. They have compressed images for e-mail and reduced sizes plus compression for posting.

Explore the CD in Windows Explorer and see if there aren’t different sizes already on the disk. I think you still have to use the Kodak software to extract them if they are in Kodak format.