Rig Pic. What am I doing wrong!

Shakin an a shaking all over de place,,hold still or reset the aperture setting to the quickest your camera allows.

Andrew,
At least you've got as far as getting piccy on there. I can't get that far....too old and senile to understand what it's all about.
But I've just about "conned" someone into helping me through it.
Roachie

When you shrink it to fit, the resolution is set too low.

Andrew

What resolution / pixel size have you taken the pics...they look very low resolution. Try resizing original (if recorderd as a high reolution) to 50k bytes or around 300 pixels (as per instructions on the upload section...). You may need to adjust the settings with your camera and try recording at a higher level. I normally take pics between 1-3MEG and then if I want to email or upload, I reduce/resize through editting software (should come with your camera).

If you get really stuck...email the pic to me...I'll see what I can do and then I'll email it back. Send me a member message with your email and then I'll give you mine.

Have fun

Sparky

when i scan it into photoshop it scans it at say 300kbs but when i convert it to jpeg this format reduces it to about 30kbs , so i would scan it at a larger size so it ends up just below 50kbs . right click on your photo in your pictures folder and see how many kbs the picture is .

More to the point how do you get it to look so crap! ;-) (only joking!!)
It's all about converting it to the right size without effecting the aspect ratio. Feel free to email me the full size photo's and I can get them right for you and send them back so you can just upload them.
jeff@austechsurveillance.com.au

75dpi will be fine for putting your photo's on the interenet. Your computer monitor can only display 72dpi anyway, so anymore than that is a waste (unles you are planning on printing the photo's later).

Andrew, the trick is in using your image editting software, not in the settings on your camera. The first step to picture reduction is to resize the physical dimensions to an acceptable standard, before buggering around with compression.

I suspect you compressed too heavily before reducing the dimension in this case.

You'll have to find the right buttons in whatever program you have and set the width to 300 pixels as a good starting point. Ensure your program is set to resize proportionately. Now save your pic as a jpg image. Jpg file format is a compression format and you will have some control over the amount of compression on a sliding scale or %.

If your camera already stores your files in jpg format, then still make this step but look for an option to alter the jpg compression in your image editting program - something like 20. Once its saved, find a button in your program that will show you the image properties. You should see a file size - as Kb. If you see it is no more than 50Kb then it will be accepted by our system when you upload it. If its just over, resave the file using a slightly higher compression, say 50. If its too low, then reduce the jpg compression to say 10. Go back each time to your image properties and check the pic before you attempt to upload it.

If all else fails - email original to me and I'll fix and send back.
Hope this helps you and any others having troubles.

By the way, I highly recommend Paint Shop Pro. It's far cheaper and just as capable as Photoshop for people that aren't up on all the Graphics lingo - but still want a good quality program that is user friendly and nt too had to get. It comes from Jasc Software and you can download it over the net about $170?. It's what we use, plus the accompaying Animation Shop software of theirs is what I use for creating the Banner Ads.

Just had a play with Roachies and it had been saved as a Bitmap (filename.bmp) which makes a too big a file for posting on the page. Read Michele's post above to see that they can be saved as a j-peg or filename.jpg. It give a lot better compression ratio.

I will change my rig pic from the poor little Suze here after the Wombat weekend assuming I get there.

OOOOOOOOOOeeeeeeeeee what a lot or replies. Makes me feel important hahahaha.

Thanks for all your offers to fix it. I want to have a go myself first. I have found another disk that came with the camera. (ArcSoft Camera Suite 1.3) I will give that a go instead of the Infraview whilst taking all the advice given hear.

Thanks to all.

Andrew i've been told that the problem might be in the original file and that you might have shrunk it to small, try resizing it to as close to 50kb as you can.
Or maybe take more photo's and start again.

Baz.