Help me out real quick?

[paulle]

How do I properly save a file?

Normally I would edit the photo in canon's software and batch process them to a jpeg, but everytime I do that the file sizes are huge?

How can I make them smaller without losing much quality.

[Damo77]

How huge?

[paulle]

8-10 mb

[Damo77]

From what camera?

Are you sure they're jpegs?

[eddarr]

That's tiny. You must be saving tiff. You can save them as jpeg and reduce the size.

[ToddziLLa]

Save for Web or bring the quality slider down to 60/80%. Or you could change the pixel size of the photo too.

[paulle]

but how?

it's jpeg. i'm using an xti

[Damo77]

I assume you're using Digital Photo Professional.

Any DPP users out there who can help Paulle? Where is the jpeg quality set when batch processing?

[René Damkot]

Right in the dialog box. But I wouldn't set it lower. Storage is cheap...

[Damo77]

I agree, René.

But this still confuses me. How can a jpeg from an XTI be 8-10MB?

[paulle]

Yeah, I just went a long and upgraded my flickr account. Didn't want to risk the quality of the photos..

took me a whole lot of time to upload though..

[tzalman]

I agree, René.

But this still confuses me. How can a jpeg from an XTI be 8-10MB?
There is a lot of variation in DPP's max quality jpg. I have jpgs from the 40D (same size) from 6 Mb to 12 Mb (highly detailed).

OP - On the Batch Convert page you won't loose very much quality if you bring the slider down to 7 or 8 which is roughly equal to the amount of compression the camera does.. On the web, I doubt the difference would be visible.

[René Damkot]

I agree, René.

But this still confuses me. How can a jpeg from an XTI be 8-10MB?

I quite often get around 6 to 8 from my 1D2 (high ISO).

To the OP: Flickr? Why not just scale the image down to a smaller size? I'd doubt the full 10 megapixels would be needed for web ;)

IMO 1024 px largest size is more then enough in most cases. If no further editing is done, for web images, the quality slider can be dragged down a bit as well.