 Donna L. Jones |
Szing a digital picture I have 400 photos on my digital camera that I took on a Wash D.C. trip with my students. I need to fit as many as possible on one CD to give the kids. I need to shrink them to fit but don't know what is appropriate for showing as a slide show on a big screen, which is how they will be used along with getting prints made. Can they all be sized at once in some program? How big do I need to leave them to both print a 4x6 and show on a huge screen? I have Photoshop CS, Paint Shop Pro 8, Photoshop Elements and Paint Shop Pro X. Thanks for any help you can give!
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Stephanie M. Stevens |
Do you have a DVD burner? If you do, DVDs hold a TON of photos compared to CDs, so you could leave the pics larger.
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chrisbudny.com - Chris Budny Contact Chris Budny Chris Budny's Gallery |
Hi Donna... you didn't say what camera was used / what file type & size the pictures are now? For instance, my camera is a 5MP Sony which produces JPG files generally around 1.8MB to 2.2MB each. At the smaller end of the scale, 1.8MB, a CD would probably fit about 385 of those. (Have you eliminated any images truly not worth keeping, first?) If you are planning on creating JPGs, just opening your original file and re-saving as JPG (Quality Level 10, or even 11 - out of 12) will lower the file size a bit--without a dramatic loss in visual quality... that may create enough reduction to fit all onto 1 CD. You could use Batch Processing in PS to automatically do this re-save to all 400 files (giving each file a new name, by adding a number or letter, for instance.) You can experiment on 1 file first--pick your largest file, save a copy ("A") as JPG Quality 11. Open the original, save another copy ("B") as JPG Quality 10. Open all 3 files in PS, enlarge view to actual size, then tile all 3 images side by side to compare the visual quality (you should be seeing the same exact area of all 3 files, for easy comparison.) You may find Quality 9 could work, too, if you needed further file size reduction.
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