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Garner, NC

My Sony camers is a 6.0 megapixel, and is like my tiller, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. So I bought a new one that is 14 megapixels and now I can't load any pictures in the dairy. The picture size is 4.2mb and in the dairy they need to be 4.0 or less. How do I change the size???

3/20/2010 3:18:25 PM

Bloomington, IN

I've got a program on my computer called Infranview, and by simply rotating the picture once then undoing it, then resaving it to the computer the file size of a 2 1/2 mb picture gets reduced to somewhere in the 500 kb range. One fifth the size, even though the photo is of the same size and quality as it was before. I'm sure there are other ways of doing it though, probably simpler too, lol.

3/20/2010 4:43:59 PM

Garner, NC

pumpkin cholo, I tried to rotate and then undo and save, the file then went from 4.2 to 6.1mb. I'm going read my camera book and try to see if I can change it on my camera like lisa said. thanks

3/20/2010 5:17:16 PM

Bloomington, IN

I'm not sure why, but the older version I had been using always downsized. I just downloaded the latest version of Infranview and I see what you mean with the files getting bigger. Lisa what program would you recommend?

3/20/2010 5:37:26 PM

El Paso TX.

Ice Man - What format is the photo being saved in ?? - IF your camera is saving the pics in .png format they will be much larger than .jpg since it does not use compression (most higher mega pixel cameras will save using that format since the compression will add some artifacting lowering the quality - but if you want to upload them to the web then you'll want to resave them using .jpg instead which will cut the filesize by about 3\4's (Jpeg uses a 4:1 compression format so your 4.2mb file will then be about 1.1mb)

What you can also do is use a photo editing package (probably got one with the camera if you don't have one you use already !) - and pretty much any program will have a way to resize the photos to a smaller size. ( For example in Microsoft Paint you would go to the top bar and select Image - Resize/skew and select say 50% on both horizontal and vertical to make it 1\4th the original size (1\2 the length and 1\2 the width = 1\4th the original size which will result in 1\4th the filesize. - and then saving as compressed .jpg instead of uncompressed .png format will cut it to 1\4 the filesize again so your original 4.2mb pic will now use .26mb (1/16th the original filesize)

3/20/2010 11:34:01 PM

El Paso TX.

Also - if you do not have a photo editing software Kodak offers their Easyshare software free ( http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=130&pq-locale=en_US&_requestid=47643 )

3/20/2010 11:49:17 PM

Wallingford,CT

your making this far to complicated. If your using a windows operating system. right click on the original picture file and select 'send to' then 'email recipient'. Windows will see the large file and suggest making it smaller for you ...do it and send it to yourself. no extra software to fool around with...cheep and dirty

3/21/2010 8:19:08 AM

Garner, NC

Ok, thanks for all the help. The best way I found was to open the picture and go to file edit, then just re save the picture, and the imagine is in the 1.6mb range.

3/22/2010 11:31:24 AM