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Subject: | Emailing bird photos |
From: | "Geoffrey Dabb" <> |
Date: | Mon, 23 May 2005 13:36:46 +1000 |
At David McDonald's suggestion and in consultation with David Cook I have slightly revised and expanded an earlier message about making use of the list to share bird photos. With much greater enthusiasm for snapping birds as a result of digital gear, I anticipate there will be a lot more pics obtained that will be worth putting around. My suggestions are set out below and are in the same form in the enclosed word doct.
Guidelines for sending bird photos on canberrabirds
chatline 1) Photos of
some current interest are suitable for the list, such as those showing rare
visitors, or unusual behaviour, or subjects where help is sought with
identification. 2)
Unless the pic has current news
value, consider sending it to the COG Photogallery
rather than emailing
to the list. There are no set size
limits for sending to the gallery, as any necessary resizing is done by David
Cook. Photos are normally displayed
promptly. 3)
Photo attachments to emails to the
list should not be more than 100kb. 4) The
following points may assist in reducing the size of bird
photos: ·
A picture simply transferred from digital
camera memory or a scanner will usually be too large to email but can be edited
by a simple graphics program (the kind supplied with many digital cameras) to
produce a ?jpeg? image of appropriate size. ·
?Editing? in this sense need not affect the
original image, but involves producing an additional version that is suitable
for emailing. ·
Reduce the amount of information in the
image by cropping it to show only relevant detail eg in most cases just the bird
will be sufficient, with minimum background. This will probably also reduce the dimensions of the
image. ·
Further reduce the dimensions of the image
(by using ?resize? or ?save as? options).
Dimensions might be expressed in cms, inches or pixels. A pixel size of 300x200 that is ?mainly
bird? will generally be large enough in most cases for viewing on a monitor,
even though it might not enlarge or print with good quality. A jpeg image more than 600 wide might be
too big for convenient viewing on the monitor at the receiving
end.
·
The two above steps will generally achieve
an image of less than.100kb. If the
file-size is still too big, consider reducing the resolution of the image. How this is done will depend on the
editing program, but it might be achieved by applying a degree of ?compression?,
by selecting a standard such as ?medium? or ?low? rather than ?high?, by
reducing the pixels per inch or centimetre, or by using some other resolution
scale however expressed. Sometimes
when an image is ?saved? or ?saved as? this will of itself alter the size of the
file ? either up or down. ·
At the stage of sending the image, your
program might give you an opportunity to specify the dimensions for sending eg ?actual size?, ?full
screen?, ?quarter screen? and/or at a specified width in pixels. This is another way of controlling
dimensions, that can be used instead of or additionally to that indicated
above. 5) If you
have not had much experience in editing and emailing photos, you may wish to
experiment. You can discard the
results ? and your original image need not be affected, although you may wish to
make a copy to work on as a precaution.
You can also practise by emailing an image to yourself to see how it will
look, and how large it is, when received. 6) When
replying to or commenting on messages with pics, take care not to resend the pic unnecessarily. This can easily be overlooked if the pic
is embedded in the original message rather than an attachment. If your reply settings do not
automatically delete the pic, you will need to do this
manually.
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