Hello Barry   Thanks for your help in this.  I have plenty of file space and the only reason for asking was that about 10 years ago when I first had a computer the chaps that helped me get started told me to reduce the size of all my photos - probably because I only had a limited amount of space.   Your explanation shows how much out of date I am!!   Bette --- On Mon, 15/6/09, senior-newbie-request@rootsweb.com <senior-newbie-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: From: senior-newbie-request@rootsweb.com <senior-newbie-request@rootsweb.com> Subject: SENIOR-NEWBIE Digest, Vol 4, Issue 80 To: senior-newbie@rootsweb.com Date: Monday, 15 June, 2009, 8:02 AM When replying to a digest message, quote only the specific message to which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. Also, remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. Today's Topics:    1. (no subject) (Bette)    2. Re: (no subject) (Barry)    3. Re: (no subject) (WoodyWoodworth@aol.com)    4. Re: (no subject) (JYoung6180@aol.com)    5. Re: Flash drives (Nancy Keith) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:21:37 +0000 (GMT) From: Bette <bettedeal123@btinternet.com> Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] (no subject) To: SENIOR-NEWBIE@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <445055.6313.qm@web87009.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 How can I reduce the file size of individual photographs - to save space - and make them smaller to send by e-mail? Your help would be appreciated. Bette ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:50:20 +0100 From: Barry <barry@yobunny.co.uk> Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] (no subject) To: Bette <senior-newbie@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <1873170323.20090614185020@yobunny.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello Bette, Sunday, June 14, 2009, 6:21:37 PM, you wrote: B> How can I reduce the file size of individual photographs - to save B> space - and make them smaller to send by e-mail? There are quite a few programs to do this, from fully fledged graphics ones such as IrfanView / Picasa or ones specifically for this one task such as JPG Size. However, reducing the file size does also reduce the quality of the photograph and this cannot be restored later so if you are having a space issue on your system dues to photo storage the better way of dealing with it is to increase the storage space with a larger HD. Note that you will see help pages that say you should remove images to prevent the system from slowing down - this is often old information from when the sizes of Hard Drives were low and too many images could lead to Windows not having enough 'head room' to work with. Also the CPU's were a lot slower so again the extra information could make the folder slow to open due to the number of images to process. Modern PC's have much larger HD's and faster CPU's so storing masses of photo's isn't going to cause any performance issues until you get enough to cut the free space down to below 1Gb ( Windows still needs over 500Mb of free HD space to pay with ). So the question is, how much free space do you have ?? -- Best regards, Barry                          mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty' ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:41:35 EDT From: WoodyWoodworth@aol.com Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] (no subject) To: senior-newbie@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <c54.4ee0f09a.3766ba7f@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Bette, I agree  with Barry. Never reduce the size of an original photo and use  it as the "new master from which copies are made".  Once you make a photo  smaller, you've lost the resolution you once had, and you can never get it  back. Making a copy of the master for e-mailing for  one-time viewing is another matter.  Once they view it on their computer  screen, they can toss it.    However, you would not want to send a  reduced size copy to someone who is going to be using it to print pictures from  it.  You would want to send a copy of the master at its original  size.   They wouldn't be able to get the original resolution back with  a reduced size copy. Irfanview is a  popular, excellent image manipulation sofware, and free.  It's as good as  my Paint Shop Pro V8.1.   I never did like Picasa, as it makes  "albums", but doesn't move pictures and appears to, and many get confused by  what Picasa is doing and not doing.  Irfanview can reduce the size of the  pictures for you. If you have pictures too  large for e-mailing, you can send them through http://www.yousendit.com.   It's free.  Ignore the membership and fee inferences.  If you need more hard drive space, buy an  external drive, preferably the new portable types that don't require a clumsy  power supply.  The portables are very small in size and get their power  from the USB  connection. Woody ========================== barry@yobunny.co.uk  writes: Hello Bette, Sunday, June 14, 2009, 6:21:37 PM, you  wrote: B> How can I reduce the file size of individual photographs -  to save B> space - and make them smaller to send by e-mail? There  are quite a few programs to do this, from fully fledged graphics ones such as  IrfanView / Picasa or ones specifically for this one task such as JPG Size.  However, reducing the file size does also reduce the quality of the  photograph and this cannot be restored later so if you are having a space  issue on your system dues to photo storage the better way of dealing with it  is to increase the storage space with a larger HD. Note that you will  see help pages that say you should remove images to prevent the system from  slowing down - this is often old information from when the sizes of Hard  Drives were low and too many images could lead to Windows not having enough  'head room' to work with. Also the CPU's were a lot slower so again the extra  information could make the folder slow to open due to the number of images to  process. Modern PC's have much larger HD's and faster CPU's so storing  masses of photo's isn't going to cause any performance issues until you  get enough to cut the free space down to below 1Gb ( Windows still  needs over 500Mb of free HD space to pay with ). So the question is,  how much free space do you have ?? -- Best  regards, Barry                           mailto:barry@yobunny.co.uk MicroSoft Free Zone running Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty'  **************Download the AOL Classifieds Toolbar for local deals at your fingertips. (http://toolbar.aol.com/aolclassifieds/download.html?ncid=emlcntusdown00000004) ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:22:18 EDT From: JYoung6180@aol.com Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] (no subject) To: senior-newbie@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <bc3.4b1aaf7f.3766c40a@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" I store photos on flash drives rather than lose quality by lowering the  size/resolution. A 4 GIG flash drive can hold quite a few photos. Joan In a message dated 6/14/2009 4:43:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  WoodyWoodworth@aol.com writes: If you  need more hard drive space, buy an  external drive, preferably the  new portable types that don't require a clumsy  power supply.   The portables are very small in size and get their power  from the  USB   connection. Woody ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:18:28 -0400 From: "Nancy Keith" <keithnancy@t-one.net> Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] Flash drives To: <senior-newbie@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <003301c9ed70$563fed80$80a2b741@nancy> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";     reply-type=original Good advice.  Now if I could just figure out how to USE a flash drive.... everybody just says "Oh, it's so easy".  Which is fine until I go to use it. *sigh* Nancy the original techno-tard ----- Original Message ----- From: <JYoung6180@aol.com> To: <senior-newbie@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 5:22 PM Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] (no subject) >I store photos on flash drives rather than lose quality by lowering the > size/resolution. A 4 GIG flash drive can hold quite a few photos. > > Joan > > > In a message dated 6/14/2009 4:43:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > WoodyWoodworth@aol.com writes: > > If you  need more hard drive space, buy an  external drive, preferably the > new portable types that don't require a clumsy  power supply.   The > portables > are very small in size and get their power  from the  USB   connection. > > Woody > > ------------------------------ To contact the SENIOR-NEWBIE list administrator, send an email to SENIOR-NEWBIE-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the SENIOR-NEWBIE mailing list, send an email to SENIOR-NEWBIE@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SENIOR-NEWBIE-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of SENIOR-NEWBIE Digest, Vol 4, Issue 80 ********************************************