Monday, June 29, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
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Friday, June 26, 2009
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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Friday, June 19, 2009
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Are You Ready to Upload Your Photos to Social Networking Sites? (Part II)
Whatever you do, don't enlarge the photo. Bulk Photo Resizer will stop you from doing this. Enlarging will not increase your resolution, it will just make the imperfections larger and more jagged. The larger it is, the more you'll see jagged edges, that we call the “jaggies.” These are from the actual square pixels that make up the image. Once those squares get too big they become pretty obvious throughout the image, not just on the edges. Things they start looking like the effect you see used on TV to obscure someone's face or license plate. That is called pixelation.
Another thing you can do to cut the amount of data is to crop. To crop a photo is to trim away the outer portions of the photo. Even the best photographers often need to fine-tune their framing. Cropping helps you feature the important objects or people in the photo. Our highlighted program, Bulk Photo Resizer, makes this perfectly easy. If you don't care for the result, you simply discard the change and try again. Our testers found it nearly impossible to make mistakes with the program. It is important to crop in order to get the best effect, but the other benefit is that you are trimming away data! The outer areas of a photo hold the most data, simply because of the square inches they cover, yet is is usually the least important part of the photo. You can get quite artistic with cropping to bring out what is important, or to shift the contents over to one side, or up or down.
There is one more way to reduce the size of the file, and it's called compression. Compressing a photo takes out some of the data, but tries not to reduce the picture quality. Of course, the more you compress, the more obvious it becomes that it's a compressed picture. There is definitely a loss of quality. But you can eliminate a lot of bytes without an obvious loss of quality. In Bulk Photo Resizer, a setting of 80 or thereabouts will cause very little degradation. Of course, if you want the highest possible resolution, you don't want to compress the photo at all. If you use 90, you probably won't be able to tell it was compressed, and you'll still see some good reduction in file size.
By the way, a side benefit of all these data-saving measures is that they upload much faster.
Here is an important point for those of you who will have some full-resolution needs, such as highly artistic photos. Your computer screen does not tell you that you have good resolution for printing, because printers, household and professional, have higher resolution than your computer screen. That is, the screen has a much lower number of pixels per inch. If someone is going to print your photos, including you, then you'll want to check on their quality before you get too far. If you have a decent printer, you can use that to test with. You can save a lot of ink by testing patches of the photo. Pick an area that will give you a good impression of its detail. Then, use a program such as Bulk Image Resizer to crop away everything but that area, and print what is left. Be sure not to save this piece of your photo unless you use a different file name, or you will hate me forever for suggesting this trick.
If you have a page layout program, you can reuse the same photo paper over and over, by placing your patches on different parts of the paper until it is used up. I have made much use of this trick, to save ink and paper, while developing graphics for music album covers.
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Another thing you can do to cut the amount of data is to crop. To crop a photo is to trim away the outer portions of the photo. Even the best photographers often need to fine-tune their framing. Cropping helps you feature the important objects or people in the photo. Our highlighted program, Bulk Photo Resizer, makes this perfectly easy. If you don't care for the result, you simply discard the change and try again. Our testers found it nearly impossible to make mistakes with the program. It is important to crop in order to get the best effect, but the other benefit is that you are trimming away data! The outer areas of a photo hold the most data, simply because of the square inches they cover, yet is is usually the least important part of the photo. You can get quite artistic with cropping to bring out what is important, or to shift the contents over to one side, or up or down.
There is one more way to reduce the size of the file, and it's called compression. Compressing a photo takes out some of the data, but tries not to reduce the picture quality. Of course, the more you compress, the more obvious it becomes that it's a compressed picture. There is definitely a loss of quality. But you can eliminate a lot of bytes without an obvious loss of quality. In Bulk Photo Resizer, a setting of 80 or thereabouts will cause very little degradation. Of course, if you want the highest possible resolution, you don't want to compress the photo at all. If you use 90, you probably won't be able to tell it was compressed, and you'll still see some good reduction in file size.
By the way, a side benefit of all these data-saving measures is that they upload much faster.
Here is an important point for those of you who will have some full-resolution needs, such as highly artistic photos. Your computer screen does not tell you that you have good resolution for printing, because printers, household and professional, have higher resolution than your computer screen. That is, the screen has a much lower number of pixels per inch. If someone is going to print your photos, including you, then you'll want to check on their quality before you get too far. If you have a decent printer, you can use that to test with. You can save a lot of ink by testing patches of the photo. Pick an area that will give you a good impression of its detail. Then, use a program such as Bulk Image Resizer to crop away everything but that area, and print what is left. Be sure not to save this piece of your photo unless you use a different file name, or you will hate me forever for suggesting this trick.
If you have a page layout program, you can reuse the same photo paper over and over, by placing your patches on different parts of the paper until it is used up. I have made much use of this trick, to save ink and paper, while developing graphics for music album covers.
Now, you already know the most important information you'll need to have your photos ready for photo sharing sites; of course, there's a whole lot more to learn. Thank goodness learning is such a joy and I'm sure you'll be getting plenty of great ideas in the photo sharing community, and enjoy compliments from them as well as your friends and family. Enjoy your photo projects!
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Are You Ready to Upload Your Photos to Social Networking Sites? (Part I)
An amazing variety of photo-related sites spawned on the internet over the past few years. Most of them are free to use, with fees for premium subscriptions which entitle subscribers to larger number of photos. These websites' purposes range from high-end professionals to beginners, from social networking to photo sharing, from selling your photos to bookmarking what you like. Many of these sites blend such features to cook up their own recipe, to meet the demands of their audience.
You can be a happy fanatic and spend days learning all about your options, or simply get going on one of the more popular sites, where you're pretty much guaranteed to have a good experience with plenty of features to keep you busy.
But what does it take besides getting pictures onto your hard drive? Wait! Some sites even let you upload pictures right from your cell phone! So let me rephrase that. What does it take to get your pictures into shape for photo sites?
Once you pick the photo sharing site that suits your needs, you'll want to know what limits there are on bandwidth. (Bandwidth means the amount of data you can transfer onto the site.) Is there a monthly limit as to how many gigabytes of data you can upload (transfer)? Is there a maximum total amount? How much does it cost to upgrade to a higher limit? Of course, that only matters if you'll want to share a large number of photos.
If you are concerned about the limits, there are some things you can do to stay under that radar and avoid upgrading, if you wish. Your best option is to upload only the photos that are really worth sharing, either because of their personal significance, or because of their artistic merit. Of course, that depends on why you're there. If you're selective, you'll be uploading fewer photos, and getting more out of what you do share.
Many photo sharing sites do not have size limits on photos, because the sites are intended to share high resolution photos. However, if you don't need the highest resolution, resizing the photo is a good idea. If your camera was set to high resolution, but you just want to share an ordinary photo, you can use a program such as Bulk Photo Resizer to do the job quite easily. In fact, if you have many photos with the same requirements, you can have Bulk Photo Resizer perform the same operation on all of them at once. This is a super time saver. For a typical family photo that doesn't need artistic high resolution, you can please your visitors with a size from 400 to 600 pixels per inch on the longest side (height or width). It just so happens that Bulk Photo Resizer has presets in these sizes, and others, so you don't even have to manually input your desired dimensions. It will even keep everything in proportion for you. This is called maintaining the “aspect ratio.”
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You can be a happy fanatic and spend days learning all about your options, or simply get going on one of the more popular sites, where you're pretty much guaranteed to have a good experience with plenty of features to keep you busy.
But what does it take besides getting pictures onto your hard drive? Wait! Some sites even let you upload pictures right from your cell phone! So let me rephrase that. What does it take to get your pictures into shape for photo sites?
Once you pick the photo sharing site that suits your needs, you'll want to know what limits there are on bandwidth. (Bandwidth means the amount of data you can transfer onto the site.) Is there a monthly limit as to how many gigabytes of data you can upload (transfer)? Is there a maximum total amount? How much does it cost to upgrade to a higher limit? Of course, that only matters if you'll want to share a large number of photos.
If you are concerned about the limits, there are some things you can do to stay under that radar and avoid upgrading, if you wish. Your best option is to upload only the photos that are really worth sharing, either because of their personal significance, or because of their artistic merit. Of course, that depends on why you're there. If you're selective, you'll be uploading fewer photos, and getting more out of what you do share.
Many photo sharing sites do not have size limits on photos, because the sites are intended to share high resolution photos. However, if you don't need the highest resolution, resizing the photo is a good idea. If your camera was set to high resolution, but you just want to share an ordinary photo, you can use a program such as Bulk Photo Resizer to do the job quite easily. In fact, if you have many photos with the same requirements, you can have Bulk Photo Resizer perform the same operation on all of them at once. This is a super time saver. For a typical family photo that doesn't need artistic high resolution, you can please your visitors with a size from 400 to 600 pixels per inch on the longest side (height or width). It just so happens that Bulk Photo Resizer has presets in these sizes, and others, so you don't even have to manually input your desired dimensions. It will even keep everything in proportion for you. This is called maintaining the “aspect ratio.”
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Friday, June 12, 2009
Be Smart on How You Put Your Publicity Photo on Your Site (Part II)
Save Time, Effort and Money with a Free, Intuitive Photo Resizer!
Do you have a business website that needs your accomodating smiling face to welcome visitors? Do you have a good publicity picture yet? In the internet, I've spotted everything from polished, professional publicity shots, to portraits by photography studios, to the worst shots done in direct sunlight in the back yard.
If you don't have a professional photo, but you think your shot might be good enough to do for now, maybe you're right. After all, most new entrepreneurs are using their credit cards to fund their start up and still operating on a shoestring.
And, even if you are your own webmaster, there's nothing to keep you from getting your publicity photo onto your site. Whether you have something from a studio, or something home grown, this article will tell you what you need to know to show your face to the public.
Let's start with the professional publicity shot. Since you're reading this, I'll assume that you haven't enlisted the skills of a graphic artist. To prepare a good photo for your site, you only have to concern yourself with size and compression. By size, I really mean “dimensions,” that is, how many pixels wide by how many pixels tall. Another kind of size, file size, matters, because a file that is too big will load too slowly in your visitors' browsers. How do you cut down on file size? By reducing the dimensions, and by compressing the image.
First, the dimensions. Normally, your publicity shot is far too large to go onto your website. But don't resize it just yet. First, decide whether to crop it. Cropping means trimming away the outer edges to bring out more of what is important in the picture. In this case, you! If your photographer has already created the perfect framing of your charming face, then you can pass on cropping. However, portraits on the web often need some additional cropping, compared to a publicity shot you might give to a publicist or a portrait that you would put in a frame on a desk. Let me explain.
Most people don't want their picture to dominate their site, unless perhaps they are some kind of superstar, or their face strongly represents their brand. But maybe not. Martha Stewart Living has a picture of Martha that is only about 150 pixels tall. Same for Oprah (except that, last time I looked, her face appeared in five places on her main page). Same for the Pope on the Vatican Radio site, but there are eight of him, three more than Oprah.
Why is this a good size? It doesn't dominate, but it doesn't seem tiny, either. So let's get back to cropping. You want to crop for the web by bringing out your face a bit more than other types of pictures, because you want to fit the picture into a smaller space, smaller even than a typical desk frame. Martha Stewart made her picture feel less constrained by using a white background that blends in with her site's background. Oprah brought out her eyes, and created a bigger presence, despite the small area, by having the top of her head cut off, like they often do for close ups in the movies.
You can use our highlighted program, Bulk Photo Resizer for more than resizing. It makes cropping quite easy. It is a free download, so you can try it without spending a dime. If you need to experiment, you can discard any changes and try again. Once you are satisfied, it is time to resize to the dimensions you have chosen. You'll be glad to know that the Bulk Photo Resizer makes sure that your photo stays in proportion. That is called maintaining your photo's aspect ratio. Nothing gets stretched out of shape.
The program also prevents you from enlarging the image, because that causes something called pixelation. That means you start seeing the pixels of the original image represented as jagged edges (the jaggies), or as squares in the image, like the ones used to obscure people's faces on reality TV.
You can save time with Bulk Image Resizer by using one of the convenient preset sizes in it's drop down menu.
Now for compression. Pretty much all the images you see on the web are compressed. Even the movies and the audio is compressed. Compression means taking data out of a file to make it smaller, but doing it in a way that preserves it as much as possible. With text, compression actually keeps all the information, but encodes it in tricky ways to make the file smaller. With audio, there are various psychological tricks used, but too much compression will make it sound bad. With images, the same is true. In Bulk Image Resizer, a setting of about 80 will keep the image in pretty good shape. At 90, most people would be able to tell the difference, and you'll still shrink the file size a good bit. You can try out different settings and see what suits your purposes. The type of file most often used on the web is a .jpg file, and that is what Bulk Photo Resizer offers for compression. This is an option, but I highly recommend it.
Finally, let's talk about a touchy subject, the homegrown photo. If you just have to use something non-professional for your site until you feel flush enough to get a real professional photo, then there are a few considerations to keep in mind. One is how grainy or fuzzy the image is. You may be able to make it appear sharper by resizing it to a smaller size. Try the 150 or so pixel height after you crop it and see what you think. Another trick is to do as little cropping as possible, but only if the background gives you some kind of appropriate and pleasant context. If you sell backpacking goods, and you're in a forest, maybe that is the best photo for your customers to see.
Of course, shrinking can only do so much. If the colors are too weak, or you are just squinting way too much in the sun, resizing won't do much. You could spend money on someone to work on it, but why not save the money for a professional shot?
Finally, here's a tip for those of you who are programming your own html: Remember to include the image dimensions and to put a brief, key-word-loaded description of the image in the alt tag. HTML reference materials on the internet will tell you how.
I hope this article helped you on how you can get your accommodating, smiling and welcoming picture on the web so you can sell, sell, sell.
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Be Smart on How You Put Your Publicity Photo on Your Site (Part I)
Save Time, Effort and Money with a Free, Intuitive Photo Resizer!
Do you have a business website that needs your accomodating smiling face to welcome visitors? Do you have a good publicity picture yet? In the internet, I've spotted everything from polished, professional publicity shots, to portraits by photography studios, to the worst shots done in direct sunlight in the back yard.
If you don't have a professional photo, but you think your shot might be good enough to do for now, maybe you're right. After all, most new entrepreneurs are using their credit cards to fund their start up and still operating on a shoestring.
And, even if you are your own webmaster, there's nothing to keep you from getting your publicity photo onto your site. Whether you have something from a studio, or something home grown, this article will tell you what you need to know to show your face to the public.
Let's start with the professional publicity shot. Since you're reading this, I'll assume that you haven't enlisted the skills of a graphic artist. To prepare a good photo for your site, you only have to concern yourself with size and compression. By size, I really mean “dimensions,” that is, how many pixels wide by how many pixels tall. Another kind of size, file size, matters, because a file that is too big will load too slowly in your visitors' browsers. How do you cut down on file size? By reducing the dimensions, and by compressing the image.
First, the dimensions. Normally, your publicity shot is far too large to go onto your website. But don't resize it just yet. First, decide whether to crop it. Cropping means trimming away the outer edges to bring out more of what is important in the picture. In this case, you! If your photographer has already created the perfect framing of your charming face, then you can pass on cropping. However, portraits on the web often need some additional cropping, compared to a publicity shot you might give to a publicist or a portrait that you would put in a frame on a desk. Let me explain.
Most people don't want their picture to dominate their site, unless perhaps they are some kind of superstar, or their face strongly represents their brand. But maybe not. Martha Stewart Living has a picture of Martha that is only about 150 pixels tall. Same for Oprah (except that, last time I looked, her face appeared in five places on her main page). Same for the Pope on the Vatican Radio site, but there are eight of him, three more than Oprah.
Why is this a good size? It doesn't dominate, but it doesn't seem tiny, either. So let's get back to cropping. You want to crop for the web by bringing out your face a bit more than other types of pictures, because you want to fit the picture into a smaller space, smaller even than a typical desk frame. Martha Stewart made her picture feel less constrained by using a white background that blends in with her site's background. Oprah brought out her eyes, and created a bigger presence, despite the small area, by having the top of her head cut off, like they often do for close ups in the movies.
Bulk Photo Resizer / Image Resizer
Do you have a business website that needs your accomodating smiling face to welcome visitors? Do you have a good publicity picture yet? In the internet, I've spotted everything from polished, professional publicity shots, to portraits by photography studios, to the worst shots done in direct sunlight in the back yard.
If you don't have a professional photo, but you think your shot might be good enough to do for now, maybe you're right. After all, most new entrepreneurs are using their credit cards to fund their start up and still operating on a shoestring.
And, even if you are your own webmaster, there's nothing to keep you from getting your publicity photo onto your site. Whether you have something from a studio, or something home grown, this article will tell you what you need to know to show your face to the public.
Let's start with the professional publicity shot. Since you're reading this, I'll assume that you haven't enlisted the skills of a graphic artist. To prepare a good photo for your site, you only have to concern yourself with size and compression. By size, I really mean “dimensions,” that is, how many pixels wide by how many pixels tall. Another kind of size, file size, matters, because a file that is too big will load too slowly in your visitors' browsers. How do you cut down on file size? By reducing the dimensions, and by compressing the image.
First, the dimensions. Normally, your publicity shot is far too large to go onto your website. But don't resize it just yet. First, decide whether to crop it. Cropping means trimming away the outer edges to bring out more of what is important in the picture. In this case, you! If your photographer has already created the perfect framing of your charming face, then you can pass on cropping. However, portraits on the web often need some additional cropping, compared to a publicity shot you might give to a publicist or a portrait that you would put in a frame on a desk. Let me explain.
Most people don't want their picture to dominate their site, unless perhaps they are some kind of superstar, or their face strongly represents their brand. But maybe not. Martha Stewart Living has a picture of Martha that is only about 150 pixels tall. Same for Oprah (except that, last time I looked, her face appeared in five places on her main page). Same for the Pope on the Vatican Radio site, but there are eight of him, three more than Oprah.
Why is this a good size? It doesn't dominate, but it doesn't seem tiny, either. So let's get back to cropping. You want to crop for the web by bringing out your face a bit more than other types of pictures, because you want to fit the picture into a smaller space, smaller even than a typical desk frame. Martha Stewart made her picture feel less constrained by using a white background that blends in with her site's background. Oprah brought out her eyes, and created a bigger presence, despite the small area, by having the top of her head cut off, like they often do for close ups in the movies.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
Want to see how easy it is to resize hundreds of photos easily for uploading? Here's a video - http://ping.fm/AHoEc
Saturday, June 6, 2009
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