Goodwood Breakfast - Supercar Sunday 3.6.07

[Trigger]

Damn damn - I completely forgot - was meant to be away this weekend and then was at home - mowed the lawn instead...how irritating. How often do these events happen ?

[Bruce Fielding]

Annually.







But there are more, different breakfasts... see Goodwood breakfast club

[jon b]

[quote="Alec"]
[quote="jon b"]
Question - how to I compress I high res picture and resize it to the correct size to get to 128kb and not look too small as above?
[/quote]

I don't know how you're resizing your photos but if you look at them they are all the same size (1920 x 1200) and contain a lot of white background.

All I have done is crop this off and saved without the white leaving a photo 625 x 409.
[/quote]

Cheers Alex 

What I'm doing is screen dumping then using paint to cut and paste - obviously cutting too small but.....

I thought there was a tool out there that you could take any size image and format it to a certain size/?????  anyone? 

[Bruce Fielding]

Irfanview.

http://www.irfanview.com/

[jon b]

[quote="Bruce Fielding"]
Irfanview.

http://www.irfanview.com/
[/quote]

Seems to do the trick - cheers

Does anyone know what image size = 128kb in jpg?

[Bruce Fielding]

c. 800 x 640 pixels at 72 dpi, but gif might be smaller depending...

ah, graphics standards, doncha lovem?

[jon b]

Here goes for correctly formated images

[jon b]

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[jon b]

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[jon b]

Well that seemed to work ok 

[Driver]

DO NOT use GIF for photographs! GIF is fine for 2-10 colors max on the web, logos and such.  I don't understand why you mentioned GIF Bruce! I thought you worked in publishing and such. A gif at 256 colors would be much larger. Somewhere around 350-500kb. GIF has been slowly replaced with PNG but that is another story.

JPEG is what you need to be using for photos. It supports millions of colors and very small file size. Anything less than 800 pixels wide (on a horizontal picture) should work to keep it under 128K and viewable without having to scroll side to side. When reducing a large file you might want to run a sharpen filter (if your app has one) on it before saving. When in doubt resize to 800 pixels, save as jpeg on a medium compression and you should be fine for 95% or more of your photos.

[jon b]

[quote="Driver"]
DO NOT use GIF for photographs! GIF is fine for 2-10 colors max on the web, logos and such.  I don't understand why you mentioned GIF Bruce! I thought you worked in publishing and such. A gif at 256 colors would be much larger. Somewhere around 350-500kb. GIF has been slowly replaced with PNG but that is another story.

JPEG is what you need to be using for photos. It supports millions of colors and very small file size. Anything less than 800 pixels wide (on a horizontal picture) should work to keep it under 128K and viewable without having to scroll side to side. When reducing a large file you might want to run a sharpen filter (if your app has one) on it before saving. When in doubt resize to 800 pixels, save as jpeg on a medium compression and you should be fine for 95% or more of your photos.
[/quote]

Cheers
Driver - now there's an explanation

Have to say the above images don't look too bad seeing they are from a mobile phone with dirty lens 

[AtomFun]

[quote="Driver"]
I don't understand why you mentioned GIF Bruce! I thought you worked in publishing and such.[/quote]

That was pre computers 

[Driver]

Most of my working knowledge was based around designing webpages that MUST load fast. Pre-Broadband, back from when people used 28.8 and 56K modems as standard, which some still do.

[Jacob Potts]

[quote="jon b"][quote="Bruce Fielding"]This one:

http://www.dorkish.com/index.php?a=albu ... Supercars/[/quote]
Now that guy knows what he's doing  [/quote]

Mr. Dorkish recorded this AC Cobra:

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As I have been researching the "kit car" market in the States, I have found out that 70 percent of the kits are Cobra replicas.  And some of them are quite good.

So . . . is that a real Cobra or not?  Maybe "he knows what he's doing" refers to the replica kit builder, eh, jon b? :-)

Cheerfully sowing Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt,

Jacob :-)