Decreasing Photo File Size

When I attempt to upload photos onto certain webpages, a lot of the time it tells me the file size is too large. Does the macbook come with anything to let me decrease the file size? I don't believe there's anything in iphoto.

You can choose to edit the photo in an external program. For instance, if you choose to edit in Preview, you can use Preview to resave the image as a JPEG, GIF, PNG, or any other format that you wish, and choose the level of compression to apply. That is a quick way to make your photos smaller. Additionally, if you can crop any part of the photo, that will not only reduce the dimensions, but also the size of the data file.

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How do I make a photo file size smaller? The photo is .jpg.

I need to make a photo file size smaller for some other uses.
imac Mac OS X (10.4.8) iphoto 5.0.4

Haha yes i forgot that you may not be using Apples Mail. Lets try the export then file>export, then under the heading "format" click JPG. Then click "scale images no larger then:" in the width field type "800" then the height field should change by itself. Thats what i do for emailing, it's usually the best trade between quality & size, that should be small enough to email. Best wishes JAG
P.S. when you first click "scale images no larger then" what's already in the width height fields? thats your actual photo resolution.

Photo File Size and Photoshop processing

On previous discussion, Steve Grisetti noted that problems with burning are sometimes associated with photo file size. The post stated that Photoshop Elements has a batch processing selection that can resize photos all at once. I when to Photoshop, selected process multiple file, selected source, save in same as source, and resize images 1000. When I viewed my photos after, about 50 of my photos were now duplicates of other photos For example, I put all my pictures in timeline order prior to doing my video. If I found a NEW photo after I had already scanned and named the photos, I would place the NEW photo in the picture folder by adjusting accordingly: 1.jpg, 2.jpg 3.1.jpg 3.jpg The 3.1.jpg would be the NEW photo. Photoshop replaced 3.1jpg with the picture in 3jpg. Does anyone know how to restore my photos back to the original "3.1jpg"? The backup is not accessible at this time.

If I understand you correctly you have been using the renaming feature and the parameters you used caused file1 to be renamed to a pre-existing filename (file2). If this is so then you probably have lost the original file2. An undelete utility may help (try Piriform Recuva).
For the future when using batch conversion it is good practice to select a new folder for the outputted files.
It is also good practice to burn all image originals to a CD or DVD immediately after importing from your camera. This way you can always recover originals.
Here are a couple of screenshots, the first from Elements Organizer and the second from Photoshop Elements. Which one did you use and what parameters did you enter?
Cheers,
Insanity is hereditary, you get it from your children

Different photo file sizes when copied back from external HD

I backed up some photos to an external HD (80GB, same size as in my iMac at the time), with Mac OS Standard format, under Tiger. The internal HD crashed, taking much unbacked-up data with it to the digital beyond.
Now with my new Leopard iMac (and wisdom acquired by experience), I have noticed a different file size on the different drives after copying the photos back.
Other posts have pointed out differences in memory allocation / block size as the culprits, however, can that make the large difference seen in my case?
Example 1 is a Tiff file of 8.2 MB on the external HD, which shrinks to 6,8 MB when copied to the 500 GB iMac drive (taken from the Get Info window)
Example 2 is a JPEG which shrinks from 1.2 MB to 552 KB when copied over.
Examples 1 & 2 also shrank to 6.8 MB and 576 KB respectively when copied from the 80GB external drive to another, 320GB external FAT32 drive.
So my question is: Am I somehow losing something with the shrinking files? Does memory allocation/block size difference make that big a difference?
Thanks for your help.

I think I ought to mention that I also have a new laptop and have experienced file sharing permission issues with some applications. Might this be part of the problem? (Although everything seems to be properly owned!)

How do I reduce photo file size in Pages?

I am colaborating on a report that contains photos, which I want to exchange with my colleague via email. It's too big as is, but if I choose the Reduce File Size option, Pages over reduces and the photos become blurry and pixelated. If there a way to find a happy medium within Pages, and not be exporting to a pdf? Thanks in advance for any help.

Question asked and answered several times.
Adjust the picture files to fit your needs before inserting them in a Pages document.
My own scheme is :
build a draft document in which I insert the original pictures (tiff or png)
When the document's layout is OK, grab the dimensions of resized pictures.
Use a tool dedicated to pictures edition (they are numerous even if you want a free one).
to crop the pictures.
Re sample the cropped pictures with a rez between 80 dpi and 300 dpi according to your needs.
Then and only then, save as Jpeg to reduce the files sizes.
Remove the pictures embedded in you doc and insert the edited ones.
It may be useful to re-start from scratch and copy paste the text components if you applied masks to crop the pictures during the first step.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 4 octobre 2011 15:38:27
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Photo file size

I'm being told that the total file size for photos on our business website should be 40KB or less per page. I can't seem to get the pictures that small. I usually end up in the 70-80 KB range. I know how to export and select specific pixel sizes but how can you compress/reduce them to a specific KB size?

Another useful 3rd part application for batch resizing is called Resize!. You'll have to export the files to a folder on the desktop and then run Resize! on it. It allows you to set the pixel dimensions and image quality, both of which will reduce the file size.
However, I don't think you can get very many photos on a site and keep the total size to 40 KB. They would have to be very small in pixel dimensions and at a very low quality. The smallest I could get a 640 x 480 image was 20. That was at the lowest quality setting which was very obvious. Are you sure that was 40KB for the site or per photo? Per photo sounds more reasonable.
If you go to VersionTracker.com and do a search for "resize" you'll find a number of other possible candidates for resizing photos.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.

Photo files size when importing from camera, uploading to facebook

When I import photos from my camera to iPhoto, then upload them to facebook, they are not the original size. This is my first mac and first time to use iPhoto so maybe that's normal. Is there a setting I need to change? How do I know if the files I have imported are being saved on my computer with their original specs? I am hesitant to clear the pics from my camera, fearing I might lose their original quality!

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
As for facebook, when using my old pc the photos remained the original size after uploading. It wasn't until I used iPhoto that they began to upload in a smaller version.
Are you referring to file size as in KB or MB or image size as in pixel dimension. As Terence pointed out I doubt if Facebook will accept a full image files at the original size. Most are in the MB range and Facebook would run out of storage space in no time.
It might very well be that iPhoto will resize the pixel dimension of the photos to a "standard" size for uploading and Facebook then downsizes the actual file size. That means compressing the file to make a smaller file but not a smaller image.

Photo file sizes for emailing

Greetings
I normally take photos at the highest resolution, making for some large file sizes.
I was wondering how or if its possible to email pictures taken from the camera as a smaller file size, without having to convert/crop/manipulate the picture so that we don't fill up anyone's inbox with 50megs of photos. Especially since we have some friends still on dial up.
This is basically for the wife, who just wants to take pics off the camera and send them to friends as easily as possible without sending huge emails to people.
Hope I explained that properly.
Thanks for any input.

Hi new2mac222: It is quite easy to do actually from within iPhoto. Select the photo(s), then select the eMail Icon. The first dialog box that pops up will allow you to select the size of the files to be sent. There is also a selection box in the bottom right corner of the new eMail dialog box.
Note: These instructions based on iPhoto '08, so yours may be slightly different.
Hope this helps
Stedman

Photo file sizes

I just started making an iWeb site recently, but I've stopped way before it's finished. I really love the software, but I'm worried about the file sizes (photos). The welcome page is really slow to load, and the photo on there is apparently a png. I've checked the boards here, but I don't know how I can speed this up. Without Photoshop, can I resize it? Doesn't iWeb resize for us?
http://web.mac.com/jamieland
Also, if you look in the Photos section, under Discovery Museum, the second pic on the page of my little boy leaning on the huge tree trunk (for eg.) was 2.0MB in iPhoto, and is 192KB on the site. Over my parents' prehistoric dial-up, it's painful. These photos are jpeg (not png). Does 192K seem big, or is this pretty standard as a scale-down from 2.0MB?
The site is also very slow over broadband, I'm told. What do you think? Is this slow? I'd appreciate any opinions or ideas...
Thanks!

Hi,
I used "Modern" as a template.
Photosize looks good if I don't use Reflection or other special on the normal pages in iWeb 1.0.1.
But if I look at my Blog entries, it's terrible.
Every Blog entrie has two times the same photo, one image.jpg (with about 80 to 100kb) and one image_1jpg with the original filesize from iphoto.
Why do I have these two files and why does iWeb upload the original file with a "_1" in the name?
I don't want the large file to be uploaded!
What's wrong?
JO

Photo file sizes and iPhone

My digital camera files has extremely large file sizes - around 10mb. When I sync iphoto with the iphone I'm planning to get, will it resize the files and upload a smaller version to the iPhone? I hope so or my iphone will fill up pretty fast.

Photos transferred from your computer to the iPhone will be "optimized" for viewing on the iPhone but how much smaller in size these photos will be, I'm not sure.
My iPod with video includes a setting to transfer full resolution photos but the iPhone does not include the same option.

Reducing Photo File Size

I have many photos in my library that are in excess of 1.5MB. I would like to reduce the size of some of these photos for emailing. I realize I can choose the file size I want when using Entourage, but if I want to attach several photos, can I reduce each picture's file size without destroying the original?
Thanks,
kayjh
20" iMac iSight Mac OS X (10.0.x) 1.5GB Ram, 500GB HDD | 60GB Video iPod
20" iMac iSight Mac OS X (10.0.x) 1.5GB Ram, 500GB HDD | 60GB Video iPod

Hi kayjh,
Do you have Entourage set up as your default Mail program within iPhoto's Preferences? If you do, then command click to select each image within iPhoto,
hit the email icon in the bottom tool bar and choose the size in the next window. Hopefully Entourage should open up with the resized images attached to the email message. I know this works with Mail.app. I am not sure how it works with Entourage.
Lori

Photo File Sizes & Formats in iPhoto 6

I have iPhoto 4. I tried importing 3 files of 270 MB each. iPhoto imported one, but choked on the other two. I then tried importing one of the "rejects," but the result was the same. I read, somewhere, that iPhoto can't handle file sizes of more than 20MB. Is this true of iP 6?
Also, I've read that iP can only manage .jpg files. The 3 files I tried to import are .tif files. So, can iP 6 manage .tif files?
I'm unhappy with iPhoto's automatic organization features & other issues & thought of upgrading to iP 6, but if it can't handle those file sizes & .tif, at least, I need to look for another image manager.

Alexandra:
iPhoto 6 now has the option, in it's Advanced Preferences pane, of not copying files into its library folder but only using alias files, small files that point to the location of the original files. I've created several Tutorials to assist users in converting over to an alias based library.
Moving the library to an alternate volume is very easy to do. Just copy it intact to that volume, making sure ownership and permissions are correct on the volume, and the launch iPhoto with the Option key depressed. You'll then be given an option to create a new library or find the current one. Navigate to the new volume and select the moved library. Once you're sure it's working correctly you can delete the one in your User/Pictures folder.
The alias system lets a PB user put the source files on an external volume and operate normally. If the PB goes traveling then you will be limited to viewing just the thumbnails up to a certain size, adding comments and keywords (with the Command-I info pane), creating and moving albums. You won't be able to edit, view slideshows, move photos to albums, etc. Any photo you've edited while the volume was mounted will be viewable in full with the volume unmounted as the edited version is saved in full in the library on the PB.
iPhoto is compatible with tiff, psd, gif, jpg, .mov video files, png, bmp, and more.
To save a photo to another format you will have to export out of iPhoto. Any keywords added in iPhoto will not go with it as they are written to a data file and not the file itself. Most of the EXIF data from a camera is saved, at least when converted to a tiff file. This ISO speed and lens data is lost. Conversion to png format does lose all of the EXIF data.

Changing photo file size

I am wondering how I change the file size of some photos that I need to send. I need the photos to be 40k and a maximum resolution of 400x400. I don't know how to resize them. I am sorry I can be a little slow when it comes to technology.
Thanks,
Vicki

Vicki
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
Select the file in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The resulting dialogue will give you the option to resize the pic, then click export and choose a location where you want the smaller file to be placed.
Regards
TD

Want to increase Photo file size

I have iOs 5.1 on an iphone 4. My photos are coming in at a file size of 100k and under.
I'm on vacation and would like photos of a larger file size.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give!

Thanks so much for the quick reply! I've been wrestling with this for a few hours now... Can you say tenacious? lol
Ok then. I download via iPhoto but even when I took it directly from my camera to the finder, it can in as the same size.
Any suggestions of where to look further?
Thanks again!

How to decrease PDF file size without losing quality of images and vector lines?

I have several ai files that I saved as PDFs. Now I'm having problem with the size of this combine files. Can some one assist me with the proper way on decreasing file size without losing quality.
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I am having the same problem with a different file that's in a different format mentioned above. I'm trying to convert a ".srf" file and turn it into a ".pdf." I was successful doing this but my image, once in a .pdf was also pixilated.
I thought if I convert my ".srf" file to a ".jpeg" first, then bring this newly created ".jpeg" into a ".pdf," I would have more luck. But unfortunately the free download I got on my computer that's supposed to convert any file to any file, CANNOT convert ".srf" files to ANYTHING!
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