As some of you might have noticed, after a long debate, I decided to put a link to Corel's Paint Shop Pro on the bottom of this Board. Reason at the bottom as to not be as intrusive. The link can also be seen on the Main SoS website top left margin.
The reason I wanted to be affiliated with them is for one thing, I do use and have used their Paint Shop Pro software for a long time - I would say going back at least 10 or more years. I am bringing this up because I know that Image or Photo Editing Software can be expensive. Then you have the other extreme of freeware.
I encourage you to try it out. After all, I use it, and I am more than happy to share my "workflow". At some point, when I see that there are enough folks here that have the Paint Shop Pro, then I will release a few "video tutorials" on how I manage images.
I can talk about File Sizes, Image Compression, Cropping, Image Resizing. I have learned what you need to know to get going the fastest without all the theory.
At any rate, I thought I would pass this info along.
So, I thought I would at least share a few small tips:
1. Did you know that you can reduce the file size of an image just by simply reducing the color or "saturation" of an image.
2. Did you ever wonder why your 12Meg Pixel camera most all the time will not produce an image with a file size of 12.0Mb?
Heres a hint: take a picture of a solid white background and a solid black background ! See what the file sizes are ! (Yes, I am talking about file size - not the image pixels width x height. This will always be the same)
Donnie
The reason I wanted to be affiliated with them is for one thing, I do use and have used their Paint Shop Pro software for a long time - I would say going back at least 10 or more years. I am bringing this up because I know that Image or Photo Editing Software can be expensive. Then you have the other extreme of freeware.
I encourage you to try it out. After all, I use it, and I am more than happy to share my "workflow". At some point, when I see that there are enough folks here that have the Paint Shop Pro, then I will release a few "video tutorials" on how I manage images.
I can talk about File Sizes, Image Compression, Cropping, Image Resizing. I have learned what you need to know to get going the fastest without all the theory.
At any rate, I thought I would pass this info along.
So, I thought I would at least share a few small tips:
1. Did you know that you can reduce the file size of an image just by simply reducing the color or "saturation" of an image.
2. Did you ever wonder why your 12Meg Pixel camera most all the time will not produce an image with a file size of 12.0Mb?
Heres a hint: take a picture of a solid white background and a solid black background ! See what the file sizes are ! (Yes, I am talking about file size - not the image pixels width x height. This will always be the same)
Donnie