Rig Pic. What am I doing wrong!
Submitted: Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004 at 17:00
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Member - Andrew R (VIC)
Bought a new fancy digital camera and still getting an awful image on my Rig
Pic.
How do you guys get such a clear photo?
Heeeeeelp
Reply By: Member - Sparky - Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004 at 17:29
Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004 at 17:29
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
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Follow Up By: Eric from Cape York Connections - Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004 at 20:50
Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004 at 20:50
Sparky what a truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just a question why the whit roof.
All the best
eric
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Follow Up By: Member - Sparky - Thursday, Apr 22, 2004 at 07:17
Thursday, Apr 22, 2004 at 07:17
Eric
I trust that this is a compliment? I do like the
old truck...although have often considered upgrading to an 80 series...one thing about him (male truck as my rego number is 304 BOY) is he keeps goin' and goin'...
The white roof - needed a respray when i bought it...faded on top...like me...wwent white for a number of reasons...
1. remind me of my first car - '68 HK Kingswood (blue body/white roof
2. old tuck. all older people of distinction and wisdom are white (
grey) on top
3. cost of white spray and metallic blue
4. maily because I have to park in the open and the white reflects the heat, keeping it cooler in the cabin
5. like to be different...although I have recently seen another blue 60 series up at the sunshine coast sporting a white roof too.
What do you use, Eric?
Sparky
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Reply By: Michelle from ExplorOz - Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004 at 18:20
Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004 at 18:20
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.
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Follow Up By: Member - Andrew & Jen (Melb) - Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004 at 19:53
Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004 at 19:53
Edit all our photos for the hundreds of members - what a Gal..... lol lol
And let me say, it's free with your "Exploroz Membership Card" hahhaha
Andrew
(Maybe you should make a limit of 1 change per day per member... lol )
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Follow Up By: Michelle from ExplorOz - Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004 at 20:07
Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004 at 20:07
Gee thanks Andrew! lol - you're
spot on here. I'd love to offer to do them for everyone as a favour, since its just a simple job, but let's just work that out... say 10min to fix each pic x 680 members = 14.2 days (assuming an 8hr day). ... ummm maybe I'll let the rest of the
Forum users offer to assist instead.
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Follow Up By: Member - Andrew & Jen (Melb) - Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004 at 21:40
Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004 at 21:40
I am ??S?D?F?DS?
I'm laughing at Michelle coz she's been to blardy generous and your having a go coz she's too blardy stingy............
........to spend two weeks of her time playing with our pics. Or maybe I just don't get it OBShafted!
Andrew
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Follow Up By: Member - Andrew R (VIC) - Thursday, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:22
Thursday, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:22
Ta Michele.
I will give all that a go.
hoo roo
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