300d

[mary b]

I recently purchased a Canon 300d. I am trying to figure out how to make the jpeg pictures smaller. My operating system is MAC OS X 10.4.10.

Any suggestions? This is all new to me.

Thank you

[D Thompson]

Smaller in what way?

[mary b]

Hi Dennis,

When I take the card out of the camera and insert the card in the reader I download the pidtures to my computer. The pictures are really big. I have not tried to email the pictures either but I think they are so big the receiver might not be able to view them.

Any suggestions?

Thank you

[D Thompson]

You need some sort of image editing program. You can use the resize for web in Photoshop. I would say that most of them would have something similar. If I remember correctly, Canon's DPP has a convert and save where you can set the quality. Hope this helps.

[Rooz]

adjust via the shooting menu. select small/ fine which is a hi-res shot in a reduced physical size. the file sizes and menus are in this link.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos300d/page9.asp

[D Thompson]

adjust via the shooting menu. select small/ fine which is a hi-res shot in a reduced physical size. the file sizes and menus are in this link.

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos300d/page9.asp

I wouldn't recommend that at all as you've effectively cut the amount of pixels by half. Let's say that it happens one of those shots you live for and would like a nice, big print. It's not gonna look near as good with only 1/2 the pixels. Selecting large normal is not much better as the amount of pixels remain, but the compression is a lot more.

My advice is to shoot the best resolution your camera has to offer and then resize for email or web. That way if a large print is desired the quality will be there. For the record, I only shoot RAW.

Ultimately the decision is yours.

[Gintaras]

I would recommend shooting only RAW, do some PP in program and resize in program. I think you can download file resizing program from inet. I use FastStone Photo Resizer alongside with Image viewer. Check this link:http://www.faststone.org/download.htm

[michaelb]

I have several applications for post-processing, but I use Picasa to shrink (resize) my photos. Its the easiest way I've found to shrink photos and its FREE. You can download it from Google.