Anglorod Loc: Cornwall, England

Hi all, I feel a bit stupid asking this, but could someone tell me how to,... Starting from a raw image I convert to jpeg. The result is very sharp & clear, the file is large. How do I reduce the file size, say for web posting, yet keep the image just as sharp, as in the original file. Please help!

Donwitz Loc: Virginia Beach, VA

Well, the easy answer is Photoshop. You have total control over image dimensions as well as resolution. I resize pictures for the web at 4x6 inches at 100 dpi. Then save the image somewhere between 100 to 200 KB.

I shoot Nikons, which come with a free program on a disk called NikonView which opens their proprietary RAW file called NEF. Different camera manufacturers have different types of raw files. What camera do you use?

Anglorod Loc: Cornwall, England

Hi, Canon 5D Mark2

abby Loc: Tampa, Florida

If you have a Mac, select your picture, select "export" and then a menu will ask if you want JPEP,TIFF, etc. It also asks what quality - I usually select "low" for web photos ( may be able to get away with medium ). It will also ask for "size" - select full size. Then import this to your photo file or desktop. The last one I did this way converted a 3705K file to a 479K file - and looks fine on the web. Can also send many photos at a time. Full printing you want largest file size you can.

derekmadge Loc: Waterloo, Ontario,Canada

I can't say I have used this much but it's kind of neat (and free):
http://www.rw-designer.com/picture-resize

THe neat thing is, simply by renaming it, ending in a number (ie: PictureResizer800), it resizes the images to the value you renamed it. THis way you can resize a batch or a single picture simply by dragging them and dropping them on the icon. I know there are more options but I haven't played with them.

Raider Fan Loc: Lake County, IL.

Most photo editting software has RAW to JPEG conversion capabilitiy. If you do not have Corel,Photoshop or other such software look on the internet for shareware(free) software to do the job, Photoscape id free and does the job quite well and has many of the features of Photoshop. As far as tweaking is concerned decide on a software platform and learn to use it. Also, Look in your camera manual to learn how extensive its editting capabilities are!

saichiez Loc: Beautiful Central Oregon

I use a standalone resizer that puts a resizer option in the menus of Windows.

It is called Phrish Resizer and is a free download from the internet.

When you are looking through your folders and see the image you want to resize, right click once on the file name and "resize image" is a new option (once you install the program). It has four options of file size. Excellent for resizing for web or email attachment use. Retains quality.

Beats the heck out of opening image editing software and opening the image and rutting through all the menu items just to resize an image and remember to save it as a different file name not to lose the original. What work!!!

You set the defaults. It either puts the resized images in a "resize" folder, or you can choose to drop the resize images in the same folder as the originals, but it appends a number so it doesn't overwrite original files. You can also do a batch resize by selecting more than one file (any number) and picking a size option, then click to process.

dspoon2 Loc: Rockwall TX

In PSE9, I just open the image (sometimes I make a duplicate) then click on "image" and drop down to resize and choose the proportions desired.

Ryan Ron

Hey Friends I think it's a good option to using batch image converter and editing software while we have a lot of Images for editing or conversion I also use ReaJPEG software with batch editing mode. ReaConverter is a good Image Converter, and it’s quality as a image converters is the ability to compose batch image conversion and oft-recurring picture editing simple.