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calaco
17th of September 2001 (Mon), 20:51
I just bought a G1 and am very happy with it so far.
I have taken a few pictures in the JPEG format at the 2048X1536 resolution.
When I save the image and email it to family around the world and they open the file, the picture is HUGE. All you see is one huge leaf, or part of a nose...
The same happens when I open the file on my PC with Win98.
My screen res. is set at 800X600.

As I like to print the good pictures on my printer, I don't really want to decrease the resolution.

Any suggestions appreciated.
sbrooks02
18th of September 2001 (Tue), 02:34
Simple... just reduce the size of the images that you email down to 640X480 using an image editing program like Photoshop (which ships with the G1). The menu items in Photoshop 5 are: Image>Image SIze. Set the pixel dimenions to width of 640 (the height should automatically reduce down to 480 pixels).
Roumen
18th of September 2001 (Tue), 16:56
1) In case you use Internet Explorer as a viewer - just download the latest version IE 6.0 from www.microsoft.com This version has auto image size option /automatic reducing of the image size to the size of your screen/. Using an enlarge button on the picture you could enlarge the picture as well.

2) Better way is using ACDSee browser - it has option for auto image size (shrink to fit window/screen) and PgUp/PgDn for browsing the pictures from the folder on full screen.

Roumen
ega1
19th of September 2001 (Wed), 16:45
calaco wrote:
I just bought a G1 and am very happy with it so far.
I have taken a few pictures in the JPEG format at the 2048X1536 resolution.
When I save the image and email it to family around the world and they open the file, the picture is HUGE. All you see is one huge leaf, or part of a nose...
The same happens when I open the file on my PC with Win98.
My screen res. is set at 800X600.

As I like to print the good pictures on my printer, I don't really want to decrease the resolution.

Any suggestions appreciated.

Those files are really too big for email and screen viewing. Make a copy and resample it down to perhaps 640 x 480. Save and email that. Make sure you work on a copy, since you will need the additional resolution for prints.