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Hello,

I just got a digital camera and have been taking pictures of my snakes. The problem so far is that all the pictures I take are like 1 mb in size so I cannot email them, post them, and use them in my classified ads. Does anyone have a simple solution to this problem? Any help would greatly be apprecaited.

Jerad Huepenbecker

I know of two ways you can handle this "problem". I don't know what type of camera you have but most newer ones, most in general, have a feature in the menu saying what quality (larger the size, thus 1 MB) or what size you want. My camera has both of these features. The second way is to simply upload the pictures you your computer and use a photoediting program to resize them.

I found in my experiece, I take the high quality pictures, usually 9 Mb, and then just resize then in Jaasc Paintshop Pro 7.0. It keeps most of the quality and makes the picture smaller for you.

My pictures are mostly around 50-125 kb now. Hope this helps.

>>Hello,
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>>I just got a digital camera and have been taking pictures of my snakes. The problem so far is that all the pictures I take are like 1 mb in size so I cannot email them, post them, and use them in my classified ads. Does anyone have a simple solution to this problem? Any help would greatly be apprecaited.
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>>Jerad Huepenbecker
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- Joel Smith

"If you're not part of the solution, you're still part of the problem"

After you download the pictures, open them in Paint. Go to the "Image" menu, and select "stretch/skew". Type in the appropriate percentage in both the horizonal and vertical boxes (like 25% or whatever). Save the pic as a .jpeg.

It took me forever to figure this out.

Cropping also helps a bit. Especially if you have some messy background you don't want others to see. Also in photo-editing software programs. I prefer to take pics at a distance as I often get a better focus (plus the depth of field is better, which I happen to like) and then just crop the edges.

Rodney