Rick

Enjoy the long days - I guess you will be able to knock of a novel or two.

My comment re image size is that a lot of
people's "learning" as image size is basically
pre-broadband. The paradigm has changed.

Now that I download video over my Verizon EDVO
card to my laptop while sitting at anchor (I even
watched the world cup live) etc., I would rather
have the higher resolution with a larger image.
This is particularly true where one is doing an
FTP download as contrasted with a web site. In
the FTP download, one can elect whether to download an large image.

And then we have all those 5,6, 7, and 8 megapixel cameras.

Finally, my eyes are fading.

Anyway, just my thoughts.

At 03:30 PM 7/20/2006, you wrote:
>Greetings from the edge off the Bothnian Sea, Finland...
>
>You can get a nice compromise by playing with JPEG compression (usually
>termed 'quality'). If you increase the compression (lower the quality),
>you can reduce the size significantly. For anything but minute details (do
>you *really* need to see those bolt threads?), a setting of 50% - 60% works
>great and can significantly reduce file size while maintaining an 800 x
>600 image.
>
>In addition, if you have photoshop (or another image editing program), you
>can reduce file size by adjusting brightness/contrast as well as setting
>the white point. Photoshop can do these automatically by using 'Auto Levels'.
>JPEG compression makes use of white space and if your image has a cast to
>it, that means the white space is off-white. This will effect compression.
>Auto Levels takes care of this cast and optimizes brightness/contrast.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Rick Beddoe
>s/v Soņadora, 1978 Baba 30
>http://sail2live.com
>
>p.s., no...we didn't sail from Minnesota, through the Great Lakes, across
>the Atlantic and through the North Sea.
>
>Neat idea, though.
>
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Received on Thu Jul 20 16:51:43 2006