making smaller sized pictures

[redeye81]

I have a Canon A70 and I take alot of pictures that I'd like to email or post on the internet. Every time I try to post or email these, I get extremely large pictures with about 1mg of size. My question is, is there a way to make the pictures use less space with settings on the camera. I tried looking it up in the manual, but couldn't find an answer. I guess I want less space used for each picture. If anyone knows how to do this , Help me please.

[MilesG]

insert your image into photoshop, then go to file save for web and on the right hand side there is a box with different sizes in, play around with the number of pixels and just below the image in the box that will appear is a size!

sorry if i did explain very well but it isnt my strong point!

[jrobert]

If you're shooting for the internent or e-mail only, you can set the camera to store pictures at a lower resolution and/or with more compression (in shooting mode, press Func and click to the bottom menu-item). You might experiment with these combinations for your typical subjects and shooting conditions. This is quicker for you (but with a downside): the camera will do the work for you, your card will hold many more photos, perhaps several times as many, and offloading them from the camera will be faster. The downside, compared to post-processing them yourself, as MilesG suggested, is that you get what you get - all you'll have is the smaller picture. You won't have a full-sized original to reduce or compress in different ways until you like it, or to process to several different sizes for different uses.

-jeff-

[Don Schaeffer]

Most photo software have a frame size or resize frame option. Make sure you check the box that says something like "retain proportions." Make sure the measurement is in pixels. Make the larger dimension 640 pixels (instead of whatever it was) and let the smaller dimension take whatever number it takes. Resave the photo (I like to mark the smaller version with an SM at the end of the name). Sometimes you might want to enhance the sharpness a little.

[redeye81]

Thanks for all the information. I'll start experimenting with these suggestions with my Holiday pictures. I have several different photo programs, so I'm sure one will serve my purposes.
Happy Holidays
scott

[bosamar]

Also know that with JPG you usually set the compression to whatevery you want. Compression will make the image smaller in size. Many programs will have a built-in optimizer program to make your pix smaller.

There are tons of great programs out there that will resize and compress your JPGs. My personal favorite is Paint Shop Pro.

[LowTechMan]

If it's just for email an easy no brainer way is to open paint. Go to "file" and open the picture. Click "image > stretch skew" choose the percent of the original sized photo that you want. Click "edit > save as" and give it a new file name and you now have a smaller picture.