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Don Maxwell - Sep 10,2006
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NOTAM 10 September 2006 PERM SUBJECT: Conserving Splash & Dash Storage and Bandwidth MyFamily limits and charges us for storage space and "bandwidth" (theamount of data transferred per day from the MyFamily servers to ourcomputers). To avoid paying more than we already do, we need to conserve both file storage and bandwidth. You can help in two ways: 1. VIDEOS. If at all possible, upload videos to some other site--Googleis one--and then place links to them on Splash & Dash. If youcan't do that, then please try to reduce the size of videos that youupload here and if they're large, consider deleting them after a fewweeks. (It was downloading a big video that caused us to bust ourbandwidth limit on 9 Sept 06.) 2. PHOTOS. Before uploading photos, please reduce the file sizefrom your camera's default to something smaller--preferably well below1 MB. You can do that in either (or both) of two ways: 2.1. Increase the compression ratio ofthe file. FIRST MAKE AN UPLOAD COPY AND DON'T ALTER YOURORIGINAL. Then use the .jpg file format and increase thecompression until just before you start noticing degradation of theimage. For example, when you've gone too far, you'll see bands ofcolor in the sky, instead of a gradual unnoticeable change. (NOTE: Some image processing programs use higher numbers for greatercompression and others use smaller numbers, but the effect on the imageis the same.) 2.2. Reduce the pixel dimensions of the picture--from 3264x2448 pixels,for example, to 1632x1224 or even 816x612 if the picture doesn't havetiny details that the small size will make obscure. (If it doeshave such details, leave the image large.) Method 1 is preferable because it retains the original size of thepicture and allows the rest of us to zoom in on it to see the finedetails. Method 2 reduces the size of the file, but at theexpense of reduced detail. Many digital cameras can make a small copy of a large picture--right in the camera. --Splash & Dash Administrators P.S. Here's a free photo resizer program (one of many available on the Web): http://www.freeimagebrowser.com/resize/ When you run the program, it will be ready to resize an entire folder ofpictures. (It doesn't change your original photos. It makessmall copies and puts them into a subdirectory.) Clicking on the "Preview" button will allow you to work on onephoto at a time. In that mode, resizing is optional--you canleave a photo at its original size, but increase the jpgcompression. You will be asked about the compression when yousave the photo. And you can preview the compression effect byclicking on the squiggley arrow in the bottom right corner of thePreview screen.
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Mark Alan MacKinnon - Sep 10,2006
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Don, do you mind if I copy this over to STS? This is great info and applies to our similar situation there.
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Don Maxwell - Sep 10,2006
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You're welcome to it, Mark. Make any changes you wish.
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Frank Noordhuis - Sep 11,2006
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Good idea Mark
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Don Maxwell - Sep 11,2006
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I just now decided to see what Microsoft's 'Paint' (which comes with Windows XP) does to jpg files. I loaded a 891 KB photo into Paint and did Save As. There was no choice of compression ratio--but the new version is only 336 KB, yet it has the same pixel dimensions as the original. That's almost a 3:1 reduction in filesize, with no new software to install. <br /><br />Other programs can compress pictures much further than this, but Paint seems to be a lot better than nothing. In Windows XP, Paint is in Start/Programs/Accessories.
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