Image size question (Page 2): Ditto!

tracs101 Loc: Huntington NY

Yankeepapa6 wrote:

No. The answer is anything other than yours. Put away your club.

Ditto!

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

I have my cameras set to shoot their maximum resolution.

But I resize images later in post-processing to whatever is needed. That's what you need to do, in this case adjusting your image to 1047 pixels on the longest side to meet the requirements of that contest.

BTW: Be a little careful about contests... some of them are shams.... Just a means to acquire images to be sold as stock. Read the contest rules and fine print very carefully. If your entry licenses the contest organizers to utilize your image in any way they see fit, there's good chance that all they are doing is gathering images that they'll be turning around an selling for various uses. That's basically theft, as far as I'm concerned. You should get paid for any usage of your images... not someone else.

tdekany Loc: Oregon

Yankeepapa6 wrote:

No. The answer is anything other than yours. Put away your club.

If you were to click on the “report issue” under his post, you can actually let Admin know that he is being an asshole. Enough people do it and hopefully he gets banned for life. He does it all the time when someone posts a picture in the main forum and tells Admin (that is a narcissistic little boy for you)

JPL

lsupremo wrote:

I just tried to post some images onto a can test and was told the image had to have image size not to exceed 1027 pixels on any side. However my Nikon d7100 instruction book says that even the smallest size inDX is 2992x2000 pixels, and in 1.3 is 2400x2000.
What do I do now.? Also what image size setting do you all use, and why?

Downsize your images before you post them.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

lsupremo wrote:

I just tried to post some images onto a can test and was told the image had to have image size not to exceed 1027 pixels on any side. However my Nikon d7100 instruction book says that even the smallest size inDX is 2992x2000 pixels, and in 1.3 is 2400x2000.
What do I do now.? Also what image size setting do you all use, and why?

Crop the image using your computer. Crop it to 1024 on the long side. This will keep it small enough for most email servers to deliver it. Most will not deliver files over 10mb in size and keeping your picture small ensures this.

dsmeltz Loc: Philadelphia

jeep_daddy wrote:

Crop the image using your computer. Crop it to 1024 on the long side. This will keep it small enough for most email servers to deliver it. Most will not deliver files over 10mb in size and keeping your picture small ensures this.

I think you meant "resize" to 1024. Cropping would eliminate part of the image.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

jeep_daddy wrote:

Crop the image using your computer. Crop it to 1024 on the long side. This will keep it small enough for most email servers to deliver it. Most will not deliver files over 10mb in size and keeping your picture small ensures this.

There are two ways to change the size of an image. If you're OK with eliminating parts, then you can "crop". If you want to keep all you have, then you can "scale" / "resize" it to a smaller size.

lsupremo Loc: Palm Desert, CA

Now, now no fighting.

By the way I figured it out, it was a piece of cake., so thanks for almost all of your help.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

dsmeltz wrote:

I think you meant "resize" to 1024. Cropping would eliminate part of the image.

You're absolutely correct. Brain Fart on my Part. LOL

Yes, resize.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

whitewolfowner wrote:

One should always shoot in Raw and in the largest ... (show quote)

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

lsupremo wrote:

I just tried to post some images onto a can test and was told the image had to have image size not to exceed 1027 pixels on any side. However my Nikon d7100 instruction book says that even the smallest size inDX is 2992x2000 pixels, and in 1.3 is 2400x2000.
What do I do now.? Also what image size setting do you all use, and why?

As others have stated, shoot full sized, preferably Raw (so you have them for other uses and highest quality for PP'ing). For emailing Resize to 1027 pixels x 1027 or fewer pixels, convert to JPEG as TIFFs and others are probably too large to email as attachments.

df61743 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX

lsupremo,

Just a thought. I think it's a good idea to always shoot at the highest quality setting your camera allows. You never know when that "shot of a lifetime" might present itself.

Sometimes I shoot just JPG for casual shooting, but if I think I may want best possible, I shoot both JPG and RAW. Then I transfer them to the computer and save one copy as "negatives," never to be touched, on an external drive, and save a second copy on the computer as "work in progress". Then you can crop or resize as you wish.

Dick

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

lsupremo wrote:

I just tried to post some images onto a can test and was told the image had to have image size not to exceed 1027 pixels on any side. However my Nikon d7100 instruction book says that even the smallest size inDX is 2992x2000 pixels, and in 1.3 is 2400x2000.
What do I do now.? Also what image size setting do you all use, and why?

If your camera doesn't do it, you only have one other option. That is to use a program on your PC to resize it. Fastone image resizer is good and free I think. There are so many..........Most of us here on the how use Adobe Lightroom or Adobe photoshop. Gimp is free also. I am sure you will get a lot of suggestions.

As far as what image size I use, it depends on what I want to do with it. But I ALWAYS set my camera to the largest possible, then change as needed in PP.