My Rig Pic.................................................

Mad Dog, just wait till Mrs Al comes on, she will know how you can fix it, she is good with the pics. She has helped me out a few times.
Karen

90% sure its in the resizing. How big are they to start with?
you on ICQ send it to me, I'll try with my kit here.

Mad Dog,

It is the resizing. You may start out with 4 megapixels but when you get down to just 120 x 80 pixels as displayed on the thumbnail in the forum you lose the definition. The high contrast of the lines where the trim is along the sides of the vehicle and the door shut lines at the bottom of the doors on the diagonal angle just happen to show up this to the worst extent. There are just not enough pixels to show a thin dark line (that may be a shadow) against the white background with adequate detail.

You might be able to soften it up with some retouching but there may be fiddling involved! You could also try cranking up the save quality when saving the resized document but it is a fine balance to stay below 50Kb!

Good luck. Wish I could help but I don't have Photoshop at home, only at work.

Steven

Not an expert on this subject but I tend to think that the problems lie with the new fandangled digital photograpy. Have never had a problem resizing pics that were taken with a normal SLR, developed and then scanned.I have been able to reduce pics to under 2kb. Maybe the pixels are too great in you camera application and hence the problem.

I have only recently bought a digi, but a 2 megapixel one, so as to learn all the facets of digital photography before I go upmarket with cameras.

Cheers

ok problem solved. Seems as though the dpi setting during conversion wasn't high enough, 72 was the default so I bumped it up to 300 which gives a lot smoother lines. Click on my rig pic for a look. Just have to learn to take decent pics now :)

I found using microsoft photo editor and the image / resize function works well. i just resize down and save then check with windows explorer for the file size as it shows differently in the photo editor properties. Works for me.

Ray. Michelle and I talked about it last week in here. I dare not ask you to do as Truckster suggested and look at the search function to find it.

Main thing is to make sure you Save As under the File menu a "filename.jpeg" file or jaypeg. It depends on the software package of your camera as to how it can degrade your file to minimse the file size to under 50kb but it should be pretty easy with the options there under the Save As menu option as it prompts for the file directory/file name/type(*.jpg or jpeg)

If you cant quite get it under 50kb you may need to crop it slightly.

Happy playing

I am suprised that no-one else has noticed its also made MAd Dogs' canopy look a different colour