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re: Picture size in W2k?? Monday, December 29, 2008 at 5:19 pm Posted by geek9pm (1030 messages posted) It all depends what format they have. And what level of compression they have. Windows XP will show thumbnails for some, by not all types of picture formats. For camera pictures, it is most often JPG format. To reduce space, the picture should be saved with at least a compression index fro about 6 to 12. By using even higher compression, up to about 40, you can save more space on your hard drive and still have fair snapshots quality. Your camera should have a setting for this. But it may not tell what the index is, just something line this: Best, Better, Good and Draft. The 'Better' format will have some compression. Maybe between 4 to 8 more or less. If you are new to Digital Pictures, look at this: http://www.shortcourses.com/workflow/workflow1-1.html Microsoft, as you know, is not doing much for Windows 2000 users other than security updates. So of the new image software MS offers may not work on Win 2K. Geek9pm     New Bird Logo. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Picture size in W2k?? Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 5:20 am Posted by Len (72 messages posted) Thanksfor the interesting page. The giant jpg files are not from my camera, but sent to me. I'm having problems opening them and wondered whether Wk2 was the limiting factor or CPU or RAM? On Monday, December 29, 2008 at 5:19 pm, geek9pm wrote: >It all depends what format they have. And what level of compression they have. Windows >XP will show thumbnails for some, by not all types of picture formats. >For camera pictures, it is most often JPG format. To reduce space, the picture should >be saved with at least a compression index fro about 6 to 12. By using even higher >compression, up to about 40, you can save more space on your hard drive and still >have fair snapshots quality. >Your camera should have a setting for this. But it may not tell what the index is, >just something line this: Best, Better, Good and Draft. The 'Better' format will >have some compression. Maybe between 4 to 8 more or less. >If you are new to Digital Pictures, look at this: > >http://www.shortcourses.com/workflow/workflow1-1.html > > >Microsoft, as you know, is not doing much for Windows 2000 users other than security >updates. So of the new image software MS offers may not work on Win 2K. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Picture size in W2k?? Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 1:13 pm Posted by geek9pm (1030 messages posted) Sorry, I just assumed you got it from your camera. Be careful with JPG images off the internet if you do not trust the source. An JPG image reacquires CPU attention and can be used to hide a hostile bit of code. Otherwise, if the pictures are over a megabyte you made wish to change the compression ration. One of the standard Photo Editors can do this. I use one that will change all files in a directory to a pre set compression format. And I am using Windows 2000 SP4. Ny system is running on a 20GB drive and is about half full. Lots of MP3 files and some photos. Plus all the downloads of stuff. If you are losing space, it may be something else. Have you used Sequoia View? It shows a graphic of how large your files are. Kind of looking down at a forest and seeing the girth of the trees. http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview/ Geek9pm     New Bird Logo. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum