Fine. Blackmail me into posting a CoTC picture, using my very own weblog. See if I care.
It took me over an hour to get this shot. Gracie was facing away from the camera most of the time she was sleeping next to Homer, then Tig was, then, finally, I got them both at least partly looking towards the camera (or, in Tig’s case, sleeping towards the camera).
This one goes on the birthday card I’m sending my brother.
See, here’s why I’m not publishing pictures. This sucker is 36k. It shouldn’t be, but I don’t own Photoshop, and have a very old copy of Fireworks, and now can’t even access the one I have what with my old Sony VAIO having serious Windows problems. I don’t have a spare $200 to buy Fireworks, and if I did, I’d spend the $400 to buy Macromedia Studio, because now they throw in Flash, and it’s silly not to buy the whole megillah. But again, not in the budget at the moment.
If anyone with a real image editor (HP Image Zone does a lousy job compressing photos) would like to download my picture and save it (same size) in a real image editor, it’d probably drop 20k off the file size. Or maybe you could suggest a shareware image editor that I can use while I’m waiting to get Macromedia Studio. Or Photoshop. I got really fond of Photoshop again while working for Large Financial Company in Richmond. How much is that going for these days, anyway? Never mind, holy crap, $650? Fuhgeddaboudit.
Does anyone out there use Elements? Has it got a good compression/photo editor? There’s a Costco near where I work; I could get it tomorrow.
Anyway, there you go, Lair. Your blackmail worked.
Gallery does all my file reducing for me automatically.
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I’d guess 35K is about right for a picture like that. Pictures with lots of different colors and/or complexly-shaped colored areas in them often don’t compress very well.
For reducing/compressing pictures, get IrfanView — quite adequate function for a much more than adequate price (it’s free).
For most of the other things most people might want to do with pictures, either Adobe Photoshop Elements or ULead PhotoImpact is more than sufficient for under $100.
I use Picasa, and I think it may be possible to compress pictures by saving a copy.
I saved the image, opened it in Irfanview and saved it as a jpg at 90% setting. It came out at 16.2k and looked virtually identical.
Gary,
Thanks so much. I tried it with a bunch of other pictures and lowered the size quite a bit.
Okay, Rahel and Lair. You’ll get more cat pictures now. Give me some time.