We restrict the size of pictures for an obvious reason. What are the free software's out there you guys use to optimize the pictures with?

[Guvner]

Here's a couple of examples of a coin off of my phone once it's optimized by software. It's had all the printing information taken out yet is still a very large picture. In fact this is a Roman coin we're going to give away here. The pictures are horrendous (not caused by the optimizing) as I would normally take these outside and put them on the BBQ pit top in the late afternoon to show the coin in the best light. The flash just ruins the details but we're here to show size so here's the pics. In fact check back later today or tomorrow and I'll put the same coin on here taken in the afternoon sun on my BBQ pit cover.

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Turns out that since I just moved my BBQ pit was a built in gas model at my old house and now I have a stainless steel one. Instead I put the same coin on the railing of my deck and shot a picture with just the morning sun now just getting through the woods to show you how much better the results will be on the same coin losing the flash. It's astounding what you get even with today's smart phone cameras.

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Thanks... Guvner..

 

[Larry (IL)]

I send all photos to myself. My Samsung phone and Windows mail asks me what size to make the pictures and I choose Medium, when received, I save them in my photo album and they are ready to post, no extra sizing is needed and I can send and size a dozen pictures at a time. They come back to me 768 X 1024, 137 KB, plenty big enough for posting.

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[Guvner]

I'm using an HTC One which is an Android phone. Don't have that option although the pictures shock me for quality.

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[Bill_S]

I use faststone image viewer. It will allow you to resize the photo and then save it at a lower quality (not size). This allows you to have a fairly large image still but keep the file size a lot smaller. I can get an image from say 3mb to around 100k or less.

 

[Larry (IL)]

It's Android 2.2. I haven't upgraded because I would lose my free portable WiFi capability ........

 

[jeffc]

Photoscape is a free download that is very user friendly with many capabilities.

 

[Guvner]

Here's a sample.. Only 47.1KB in size now. It was a 2 meg file on my camera... It also the coin we're giving away on our new contest...

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[GKMan]

when I am posting from my Android phone I use reduce photo size which works awesome. When I'm on the PC I normally just use the snipping tool set it so quick and easy. It is part of the Windows 7 os. Otherwise you have the old standbys like Snagit.

 

[jas415]

Well, because I keep an Excel spreadsheet of each hunt, with all the particulars, and drop/attach pictures and videos into it, I use a batch resize called 'PIXresizer'.

 

[C&RHunter]

My PC came with Adobe Photoshop Elements 9, that is what I use on my photos. I download them from the phone or camera, then crop, resize, adjust lighting , etc.

 

[Guvner]

n/t

 

[Guvner]

In fact I did try a different browser just now.. I only can upload a photo from the camera (actually taking a picture), camcorder, voice recorder or music track. What a stupid operating system. They must have had their lead developer on that one.. Anyone know a way around the HTC One?

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[Roland58]

How about some more information about this "contest", please? I would love to own a Roman coin!!! Not much chance of finding one in Texas.

On topic: My wife has a program called "Pixlr", that she downloaded for free from the Google play store for her Android phone. It has some amazing capabilities to enhance and edit photos. One thing for sure, you can't beat the price.

 

[TheGeorgiaCanuck]

Microsoft Windows Paint. Should be default on Windows 7 machines. My camera stores the pics as 4320 x 3240. I just right click the picture and choose edit from the popup menu, then click resize, click pixels, then set the horizontal to 400 and "save as". Upload to photobucket, then paste link in forum post.

 

[Ray-Mo.]

Test pic from and by my Droid RazrMax HD taken in the field.

 

[AJupstateNY]

IrfanView and it is free!