Acceptable picture size of Pelican?
 

Good news = I got a new digital camera for (early) Christmas.
Bad news = It takes such hi rez pictures I can't simply upload pictures from the memory card.

What size do I need to reduce them to upload? (new pics are 10-12MB)

The native upload is 800x600, but anything 2MB and less and the software will automatically reduce the size for you.

So what you really want/need to know is 2MB and smaller.

Or you could do like another poster and hotlink gigantically ridiculously huge pics that you can only see 20% of at any given time.

Those are always fun.

Just port those over to yer 70"

In my experience, there are two ways to go about this.

First- If you are taking pic you might think will go to PP.
Set the camera to medium or low resolution. You can take a buttload of pics of 'random transportation pictures' and such and they will all upload to pelican.

Second- If you are taking a pic of something important- like a solar eclipse- take it in full resolution, and then reduce to a lower quality image on photoshop or some other program.

For the most part- getting into the camera and reducing it there is good for 95% of the shots.

edit- if you are dealing with a 10- 12 mb camera- before you take the shot- ask yourself- "where is this going?" A car pic of someones girlfriend hanging over the hood should be a medium/ low resolution pic. A pic of some fantastic sunset in paradise- go high resolution and edit it elsewhere.

10-12 mb is not that big of a pic these days. My canon is 21mpix. It is small compared to the newer 40+ resolution cameras. I have to get into my mind (and remember) "where is this pic going?".... RAW?, JPEG? highres? low Res?

Think in those terms before you even make the shot.

I was marveling at the pic that 'that poster' put up...beyond frustrating.

IMHO the resolutions are reversed..... ;)

One of my cameras saved high and low res versions of each pic, could that be an option?

Windows has a built in snipping tool, I often bring up pic on screen then snip the section I want to post or email, I believe it saves as screen resolution.

Well- I was thinking in terms of cellulite but I digress! :D

There's always another sunset tomorrow.... Girlfriend pic may be one of a kind.

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haha!!!! yeah- don't do that.

Okay--- so to clarify.

If you are taking a pic of YOUR girlfriend hanging over a car. Take in HIGH RESOLUTION and then reformat as needed to share (which you shouldn't- just because).

If you are taking a pic of "Someone's" girlfriend, take in LOW RES and upload to PP as needed (which you should- becase it's your civic duty.).

edit#2- If it is "someone elses girlfriend"- take in as high of resolution format as PPOT will allow for the PPOT viewer's benefit (not necessarily defaulting to low res).

I always wondered why that happened.

Can the poster not see how huge the pix are?

Yeah, I know... just got the camera and started playing with it (24 meg). It has multiple setting and I'm just starting today to dig into all the menus, I believe default is to save a JPEG and a RAW every shot (thou I'm not seeing any RAW images on the memory card, more searching in the 300 page manual to figure that out.)

I was lurking around some photo forms and they echoed your recommendation to adjust the rez for the intended use.

But being a guy I just figured "lets crank this baby up and see what it will do!"

I'm a recovering 35mm guy and still intimidated by the hundred of settings on these new fanged cameras!

And get off my lawn!

PS: I do have photoshop but that means dragging out my old computer and firing it up, being my first experiment with the camera only got two or three nice pictures out of a dozen or so.

Thanks for the help.

and get her to sign a model release form :D

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1513456293.jpg

MD - fixed with snip tool.

And fixed properly:
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1513456444.jpg

;)

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1513456842.jpg
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1513456823.jpg

^ point taken!

FWIW, I edited (pixelized) with IrfanView, free picture editing program.IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide