[puter hater]

Not really understanding how the digital pictures size thing works. Im going to ask this question to get hopefully a answer...

How many compressed pictures 500x500 can fit in 20 megabytes ?

[lister]

Depends how much they're compressed - file type, type/level of compression and the amount of data in the image.

to give you an example; a gif and 2 jpegs (all the same dimensions - 240 x 320 Pixels), both the jpegs have the same amount of compression, but they are completely different file sizes - though they have the same uncompressed size.

The gif compresses colours even better than the jpeg.


So it's an unanswerable question, like 'how long is a piece of string?'

[laughing2]

You should fit on about 15.

[buck52]

Originally Posted by laughing2

You should fit on about 15.

that would be just a wild guess

as lister said there is no way to know without more info

[puter hater]

I guess becuase I cant say what or how the posters would shrink and compress thier pictures I guess I really can't give more info...

But for instance if you were to use PhotoBucket to compress and shrink a picture to 240 x 320 ..

[laughing2]

What would be their file size? Try saving a file, click on the file properties and see how large the file is.

[buck52]

Howdy

just for fun lets do a little "rough" math

1,000 kilobytes = 1 megabyte

20 megabytes = 20,000 kilobytes

this picture that I took has been cropped to 500pixels x 500pixels x 100 ppi in photoshop and saved as a jpg at a compression level of 7. It is roughly 30 kb in file size...

30 kb into 20,000 kb = 666 (images)

[puter hater]

OK dokey ...Ill go with the rough math scenario

[lister]

And if you take that image and strip the extraneous metadata from it, it's now 13.0 KB, so you can double that.

[puter hater]

Man I cant even say that "extraneous (-: I have defiantly learned something new with that....