ezdays said:
OK, basically what you are saying is that you reduce the physical size of the picture until the right file size is achieved. The only problem there, is that the physical size turns out less than the maximum allowed.
I follow three steps to resizing pictures to meet the Gauge requirements.
- Take the full size image, say (1.2 meg and 2560 x 1920 pixels), and crop what I don't think I need. Frequently I use it as-is. Both the physical and file sizes will drop somewhat.
- Take whatever size picture I have left and resize it to no more than 640 x 480, the file size may still be around 350K at that point.
- Take the image and "export optimize" (or whatever the application calls it), and reduce the "quality" to less than 100% until the file size is under 65K.
This way the picture is as large as allowed physically, and it still meets the file size requirments.
I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with using this powertoy file sizer, I'm just saying you need to do more if you want the maximum sized picture, unless I'm missing something here.
i do think that the height and width ratio was the same to the average digital camera ratio...
generally i take my time with taking pictures, soo i just upload raw un-edited photos most of the time, soo i just use this to bi-pass photoshop, since i can have the images uploaded by the time i'm saving the first one... and it will take up all the size possible in the upload
optimizing does condense the image down alot, but as far as i've seen, standard resolution JPEG images of any size will be become within the file limit size and pixel size with the one size checked.... basically what this tool does is reduce the actual image size, which in turn also srinks the file size.... if you wish to crop and embed a signature into the picture or anything, it's just as easy to use photoshop
i just did a test, i started with a 424 KB (434,266 bytes) image and resized it, it came out 30.5 KB (31,326 bytes)... the limit on the gauge is 68.4 KB
i just did another test, i made a 3000x3000 image added lots of colors, 6.94 MB (7,285,315 bytes), i resized it using the tool, and it came out 40.0 KB (40,960 bytes)... soo basically, anything should be made within the limit, with JPEG....
sorry for blabbering on too much,