Help and Advice Please

[witham]

I've just got a new camera with a bigger zoom so that I could take some decent pics of the wild birds etc in our area and this morning I took some cracking shots of some Tree Sparrows in the garden, I have just tried to put them in my image library which I only managed to use for the first time yesterday and each pic has been rejected as the file is too big, yet if they were less zoomed (if you see what I mean) the picture wouldn't be very good as I had to take them through my living room window, any ideas as to how to get past this problem

[hank]

I think the answer to this one is to reduce the image size so that the longest side is 800 pixels.
That's how I do mine anyway!

[DavyG]

You'll prbably need to use software to resize your pics to store in your image library.

Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or perhaps software supplied with your camera would allow you to resize them.

Alternatively, try googling for a free image resizer.

I hope this helps.

Dave

[witham]

Thanks, I have them in 'my pictures' where I think I can tweak them a bit with photo shop, and also saved in Olympus Master which I only downloaded this morning and which I'm still working my way through, it seems to be able do everything except make a cup of tea or do my ironing so I should be able to work something out

[Steve S]

It sounds as if your image library software is quite rudimentary. I recommend you store your photos at the original files size, downsizing is throwing some information away and will limit what you can do with your pictures - if not now, then later when you become more comfortable with your equipment.

Try using a different library browser. You can download one free from FastStone Image Viewer, Screen Capture, Photo Resizer ... that has no problem veiwing at least up to 24MB in size.

Steve.

[DavyG]

I'm assuming, perhaps wrongly, that when you say you're tring to store your pics in your "image library" that you're trying to upload the files, if that is the case you most probably will have to resize them.

If your "image library" is on your own computer, there should be no need to resize them.

If you have Photoshop, you should be able to resize the images easily, I can't recall if Olympus Master 2 can resize.

Dave

[Steve S]

That's a good point Dave, I hadn't thought that someone may wish to store their precious photos online (except as a backup).

Steve.

[Hobjob]

"Easy Thumbnails" is free, fast, simple and works on whole
directories (with or without sub-directories).

[Bub-les]

I use pixresizer for all my photos for WAB. It was recommended by other Wabbers and is very easy to use and is free.
Barbara

[witham]

[quote=DavyG;260227]I'm assuming, perhaps wrongly, that when you say you're tring to store your pics in your "image library" that you're trying to upload the files, if that is the case you most probably will have to resize them.

If your "image library" is on your own computer, there should be no need to resize them.

If you have Photoshop, you should be able to resize the images easily, I can't recall if Olympus Master 2 can resize.

Dave[/QUOTE

As I said, I downloaded the pictures from my new camera onto my computer as normal, then when I tried to upload some to my image library in here, three were rejected as being too big, I used the digital zoom to draw the subject in, as I had to take them through my living room window, yet I uploaded my pic of the Robin at the same time okay and it was a similar size, distance away etc and I had used the full digi zoom,