Reducing an Image

Darksider7 wrote 06/23/2015 at 15:39 • 1 point

Last night made the attempt to include several images onto my Hackaday project pages but ran into a wall. The images taken were all larger than 3mb in size and the system declined them. For the camera, used my iPad Air, but didn't see a way to reduce the size of the image to the required size needed to be published. If you can help that would be greatly appricated, thank you.

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TAIBHSE DESIGNS wrote 07/01/2015 at 01:51

for image compression or scaling I use caesium, http://sourceforge.net/projects/caesium/ , does the job for me.

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The Big One wrote 06/23/2015 at 22:53

For 'real' photographs (i.e. ones taken with my DSLR and lighting setup) I just export them to the desired size from Lightroom. For everything else I use Gimp (most of the time, saving to 60% JPG compression works fine, if I need to go smaller I can also downsample and reduce the pixel count).

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Darksider7 wrote 06/26/2015 at 20:11

Quick question: is Lightroom an app or full editing software for PC / MAC desktop setups?

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The Big One wrote 06/26/2015 at 20:18

I don't quite understand the distinction... yes, it is a full Mac / Windows application. It does some editing, but tends to avoid the pixel level editing, instead going for a more photo editing approach. (I.e. you can adjust the photo as a whole, or parts using masks, but you can't really change a single pixel). IMHO it is mainly suitable when shooting RAW, since it includes the RAW development tools. If I was shooting JPG I would probably not bother with it...

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Hacker404 wrote 06/23/2015 at 21:55

I use IrfanView as well. I take several larger pics form different angles, choose one with better lighting (no strong reflections), crop it to what I want to show, reduce it by 50% and then save it / upload it. I also use a DLSR or Point and Shoot type camera because the fixed lens cameras don't do macro well.

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j0z0r pwn4tr0n wrote 06/23/2015 at 20:52

I change the settings on my camera whenever I'm taking pictures for this website, less pixels equals smaller file size. I wish HaD would just put in a plugin that would resize them for you

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Benchoff wrote 06/23/2015 at 23:47

Right now it's the latest issue in the gits for the devs.

It's coming.

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electrobob wrote 06/23/2015 at 16:24

I use irfanview, it has a batch processing and you can say what is the max size. I normally limit web images to about 6MP (max 3000 on large side) which is under 2MB most of the times.

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Darksider7 wrote 06/26/2015 at 20:06

It does, thank you

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