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Compressing digital pictures
Is there a way to easily compress digital pictures to make more fit on a CD with little or no loss of quality?
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06-25-2008, 10:28 PM
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Not if you are talking about creating zip type files. Images don't compress well.
You'd have to batch process the images through Photoshop (or other sw) and find a good jpeg compression setting.
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06-25-2008, 10:32 PM
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Or you could really splurge and burn 2 CD's.
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06-25-2008, 10:48 PM
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06-25-2008, 11:22 PM
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Extravagant DVD read/write drives are what, $30?
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06-26-2008, 12:32 AM
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Depends on what you want to do with the pictures. Print them? Leave 'em as-is. For viewing on a monitor or TV, you can use a high quality jpeg format.
Might want to look at http://reasoft.net/articles/web/violin.shtml for an explanation of jpeg compression/quality
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06-26-2008, 04:50 AM
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06-26-2008, 07:13 AM
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Ok so basically no. It was not the cost of the disc that bothered it was the pain of burning multiple discs. think 4. both of my pc's have dvd-rw drives in them so thats not a problem
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06-26-2008, 07:30 AM
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digital picture data is already compressed, i.e. JPEG, etc. That is the reason that further compression makes little difference.
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06-26-2008, 07:38 AM
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There are many programs to compress .jpgs more. Just search compress jpg and take your pick.
Mac's standard image viewer allows one to further compress images and Windows probably has the same feature. |
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06-26-2008, 07:57 AM
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I use irfanview to do batch resizing. You can use winrar for compression also.
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06-26-2008, 07:59 AM
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06-26-2008, 08:00 AM
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They have the new fangled things called flash drives - they are so cool they can clip on your key chain and hold thousands of pictures depending on the size of the drive. They even fit into a USB port so all PC's can use them. Amazing stuff! Best buy sells 1 gig drives for 9.99!!!
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06-26-2008, 08:18 AM
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The capacity of a single side, single layer CD is around 700 Mb. The capacity of a single side, single layer DVD has around 7X the capacity, around 4.4 Gb. 4 DVDs can contain quite a number of files. Sherwood |
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06-26-2008, 08:51 AM
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Ok i hadnt thought about burning them to dvd. There are about 1200 pics all very high res. I have a flash drive that is 2 gigs but im not about to give it away.
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06-26-2008, 09:55 AM
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I recently saw flash drives online - 8 gig for less than $20, 4 gig for less than $10 FWIW...
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06-26-2008, 10:07 AM
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I would suggest flash drives only for temporary storage. Even the most current archival storage medium is "temporary". Looking at past and future technology, what 20 year old storage medium is still current; what current media will be viable 10-15 years from now?
It's ironic. Some 500 year old books are still readable. How many of us can still read mag tape, 8" floppy drive, Bernoulli disc or Syquest cartridge? Sherwood |
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06-26-2008, 11:14 AM
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this isnt temp tho its me burning pics to give to someone
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06-26-2008, 12:36 PM
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A little off topic, but what do you do with 20-30 thousand pics of the little ones growing up?
CD's fail. DVD's fail. Hard Drives - forget about it. Print them and put them in boxes - I guess this is the winner so far.
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06-26-2008, 12:49 PM
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idk i will cross that bridge when i come to it.
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06-26-2008, 12:58 PM
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