Reducing megapixel size of photo

How can I reduce the size of a photo to a smaller more manageable size? When it comes in to iPhoto it comes in as a large size & the size is only slightly reduced when I crop the photo.

IPhoto is a DAM (Digital Asset Manager) and uses a SQL database to manage photos
PHotoshop is a photo editor not a manager
photoshop can be used as the external editor for iPhoto
I have never heard of Digital Imaging and have no idea what it does
I strongly recommend that you go through the iPhoto tutorials prior to starting. There is a learning curve
LN

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How do I reduce the size of photos to use on website?

Thanks to the helpful person who recommended I use Rapidweaver to build a website, I am slowly getting somewhere. It is so simple and just like Apple applications that I think I can do this.
My problem now is that when I tried to transfer a photo from iPhoto to the draft website page it comes across so large it fills the page.
How do I reduce the size of photos so that I can bring them across? I need to show about 20 photos on the web pages. Do they need to be in a different format and if so how do I change it to the appropriate one?
Many thanks.
ibook Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi Casuarina,
Go to this site and click on the Desktop Version Quicktime movie for a small tutorial. It will explain everything to you and you can see how you resize right within Rapid Weaver. It's really quite nifty.
http://donmc.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=37133
Lori

HT1229 How do I reduce the size of photo in iPhoto? The size of my imported photos are 2 - 3 MB and for my purpose I need 200 - 400 KB. Any suggestions appreciated.

How do I reduce the size of photo in iPhoto? The size of my imported photos from my camera are 2 - 3 MB and for my purpose I need 200 - 400 KB. Scanned copies of older photographs with a size of 100 to 500 KB work very well. Any help is greatly appreciated.

File -> Export and make your choices in the Export dialogue.
Jpeg Quality and Size will have most effect on file size. Note that 'Size' refers to the pixel dimensions of the photo.
This User Tip
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921
has details of the options in the Export dialogue.

My iPad2 does not reduce the size of photos when I email them

My iPad2 does not reduce the size of photos when I email them - however my iPhone does, can I make my iPad reduce the size as well?

frankfromkleinmachnow wrote:
My iPad2 does not reduce the size of photos when I email them - however my iPhone does, can I make my iPad reduce the size as well?
Hi Frank: After you have selected the photo for the email and started to compose the email, check on the right side of the window. There it will show the image file size, tap there and it will give you options for the photo size. Hope this helps.
Stedman

How to reduce the size of photos

I want to reduce the size of photos, for example 50% samller. Please give me the steps in iphoto, but outside prepairing photos for export/mails.

If your talking about reducing the photo by percentage, from within iPhoto to leave in the Library, there is no way that I know of to do that. You must either Export or Send to Email. And even there, now way to simply select reduce by percentage. You would need to detemine the resolution in pixels of the original and reduce the pixels by half.
I would use Graphic Converter to do that. It has a scaling feature to reduce by percentage.

Reduce the size of photos in iPhoto

Okay, I just discovered that my wife's camera's been set to take pix at pretty much the highest resolution possible for a good while now, which would explain the dramatic decrease in storage space on my hard drive.
So, I was wondering if there's any way to reduce file size. I know you can do this by exporting, but I'm wondering if there's any way to do it within iPhoto, keeping the dates and any other metadata intact. I like being able to sort by date, and auto-splitting into events, and I'd rather not try to re-sort the whole thing manually, not that I think I could...
Thanks

No - the only way is to export the photos - you can not change anything in the iPhoto ibrary directly
LN

HT201077 The photos I have transferred to my PC via Photo Stream are too large for me to share with friends. How do I reduce the size and how do I share them with friends and family only?

I have the latest iPad update on my Ipad 3 as of September 23, 2012.
I havejust taken a series of photographs with my iPad that I would like to share with family and specific friends ONLY. I have set up the photos I want to share in Photo Stream. I have synced them to my PC via iCloud. Everything is fine except, the pictures are far too large to share ... and I don't know what exactly I am supposed to do in order to give my family access to these Photo Stream pictures.
How do I reduce the size of photo stream pictures once they are on my PC via iCloud?
What exactly do I do to give access to the photos on Photo Stream to specific people?
How can I share the videos I have taken with my iPad?
Many thanks for your attention. I look forward to your reply.

Select your photo/s.
File menu > Export..
Kind: JPEG
JPEG Quality: Maximum
Include: [√] Title and keywords
[√] Location information
Size: Full Size
File Name: Use filename
Select one of the photos and open in with Preview.
Tools menu > Show Inspector
Under the second button choose IPTC and it is all there.
Sorry for all the confusion.
:^P

IWeb reducing size of photos

I'm a professional photographer and I've been using iWeb as a proof site for my customers. But lately I've noticed that iWeb is reducing the size of photos I upload. I put up some 4MB files yesterday and they were reduced to 700KB for download, even though slideshow was disabled and ORIGINAL was the download option.
If you'd like to see the photos (pr shots for a theatre company) they are at
http://web.mac.com/moristano/WaterTower/DOUBTPRFinals.html
Many thanks for any help anybody can offer.

Original means the original width and height. Not the filesize.
Or do you want to display a 4MB image just to have a look at it in the browser. I would say the image I downloaded looks fine to me.
If you really want the original original then zip the file(s) in a archives and have these downloaded by your clients.
This is often asked by your professional co-brethren. Search this forum for [professional photographer|http://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?threadID=&q=professional+ photographer&objID=f1193&dateRange=last90days&userID=&numResults=15&rankBy=10001 ].

Reducing size of photos

Can anyone help me? I've just transferred quite a number of photos from my digital camera to the photoshop album and they're about 1.5MB each. How do i reduce the size of photos once transferred as emailing them this large seems to be a problem..??

PSA SE does not have any capability to help you - the full paid-for version can make temporary, reduced size copies for exactly this purpose.
I believe that Windows XP has such a function, but I don't have an XP machine to hand at this moment ...

How do I reduce the size of a photo?

I struggle with iPhoto and need to reduce the size of photo taken on my iPhone and transfered to my computer. They are over 1 or 2 MB now

Launch iPhoto and select the photo, export it (file menu ==> export) and make the size selection there
LN

Reducing megapixel / JPEG Size in iPhoto?

All of my photos are in the 2.5 megapixel range, but most sites (and e-mails) want them significantly smaller.
How can I use iPHoto to reduce the size of the photo (and not crop it down!).
Thanks in advance.

Another way to reduce the file size is to export them to the Desktop and use a file resizer application like Resize! to reduce the quality level (jpeg compression level) and, if necessary, the pixel dimensions of the image.
Click to view full size
You can play with pixel size and quality level to get exactly what you need.
OT

I-phone 5 - can you reduce the megapixel size of pictures without incurring data charges? I understand if I e-mail my pictures to myself, there is an option to define the pixel size of the pict. What if I upload from phone to computer via cable?

i-phone 5 - can you reduce the megapixel size of pictures without incurring data charges? I understand if I e-mail my pictures to myself, there is an option available that allows me to define the pixel size of the picture I send, but I believe this process inccurs data charges.
What if I upload photos from my phone to my computer via cable? I don't believe this inccurs data charges, but I cannot find an option to reduce the megapixel size of the pictures.

i-phone 5 - can you reduce the megapixel size of pictures without incurring data charges? I understand if I e-mail my pictures to myself, there is an option available that allows me to define the pixel size of the picture I send, but I believe this process inccurs data charges.
What if I upload photos from my phone to my computer via cable? I don't believe this inccurs data charges, but I cannot find an option to reduce the megapixel size of the pictures.

I am trying to send a photo in an email and the file is huge. I remember something about sending the file with less detail and therefore reducing the size. How?

I am trying to send a photo in an email and the file is huge. I remember something about reducing the size of the file but of course can't remember how.

Use a utility such as Graphic Converter to change the image to a jpeg using options to reduce the size of the converted image.

I have an imac 27 inch O SX 10.6.8. using iphoto 11 Version 9.1.5. I have scanned some photos at very high resolution with each photo being about 45MB. They're saved to desktop. How can I reduce the size of the scanned photo's they are crashing iphoto

I have an imac 27 inch O SX 10.6.8. using iphoto 11 Version 9.1.5. I have scanned some photos at very high resolution with each photo being about 45MB. They're saved to desktop. How can I reduce the size of the scanned photo's they are crashing iphoto.

What format are they? Tiif? Jpeg? You can compress them with a lot of apps - including Preivew and just about any graphics editor out there. I'm not sure that 45mb would crash iPhoto thogh, are yo sure that's the cause? I know that some folks have mentioned pixel dimensions causing issues, as can color profiles.
Regards
TD

How can I reduce size of photo but leave it in my iPhoto Library?

I have a bunch of photos that are work related that I don't need at full resolution but don't want to delete out of my library so I can search for them by how I've tagged them.
Is there any way to reduce the size of the original photo within iPhoto and leave it in the library?

No. iPhoto stores the original untouched and then makes copies of them. If you want a smaller original then you have to take it out of the library, edit it to be smaller, then put it back into the library.

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