Photography Q's

[StirCrazy]

Originally Posted by Troy F

Okay, I just bought a digital camera and I've taken a few pics of our garden, the dog and children.

First question is:

• Is 1.9MB too large a file for one picture?
  Is there anyway to keep the quality of the picture and not have it so big?

no 1.9 is not to big to keep the picture. you should always take pictures on your highest setting (it is easier to make a picture smaller than it is to make it biger) and then post process it to the size you need.

I take all my pictures at 6 meg and I do keep them at that size also, kinda like keeping the negitives. I thin take them and pic the ones I am going to use and process them for what I want them to be for. ie. if I am posting to the board I usaly knock the size way down and upload the new version, but I do keep all the originals from the camera, even the ones I don't use, in dated files backed up onto a DVD (or 3 of them actualy)

so if you are worried about how many pics you can fit on your card but a big one as they are cheep now.

Steve