bratkinson
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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One of the "minor details" not often discussed on this site is that of ever larger file sizes from ever higher megapixel cameras.
Everyone that's attempted to download their photos to this web site and others, as well, get hit by the file size limitation of downloads. For onesy-twosey occasional downloads that I do, I simply use Photo Shop Elements 10 and resize the photo using the "Save for Web" function and am quite satisfied.
However, since upgrading to a Canon 5D mark iii a year ago, the JPG file sizes output by Lightroom 4 are 'all over the place' from 5 megabytes to about 27 megabytes. As expected, shots that I've cropped fairly strongly are smaller. As I wear my glasses while shooting, I can't see the entire image in the viewfinder and therefore end up shooting about 15% 'wider' than I need. So cropping every photo is my typical mode of operation.
The size problem rears its head on me when I want to put a bunch of photos on a CD or DVD and give them to persons interested in them. Bringing each photo, one at a time, up in Lightroom, manually resizing it and writing it is a very time consuming process, especially when dealing with perhaps 150 or more photos at a time. Needless to say, the annual Festival of the Giving Trees at church a week and a half ago has resulted in perhaps 400 photos to be divided up for perhaps 5-6 different subsets for different target audiences (individual choirs, tree donors, Sunday Christmas contada, etc).
I have done a quicky search on this forum as well as Googled: mass JPG file size reducer and only found a couple of candidates for the task.
Has anyone else run into this problem of needing to shrink a significant number of pictures in a hurry? Preferably, the software used could have a 'threshold' of not shrinking anything that would result in a file size smaller than 6 meg, which would skip trying to shrink 4 meg files, or even 8 meg files by 20%, for example. Any products recommended? Any I should avoid? I'm all for paying for worthwhile products that do the job. But, like anyone else, I don't want to pay $19.95 for a worthless pile of zeros and ones.
And of course...the pictures are processed and I want to start making CDs and DVDs in the next 24 hours or so! Ahhhh...the joys of procrastination!!!
Everyone that's attempted to download their photos to this web site and others, as well, get hit by the file size limitation of downloads. For onesy-twosey occasional downloads that I do, I simply use Photo Shop Elements 10 and resize the photo using the "Save for Web" function and am quite satisfied.
However, since upgrading to a Canon 5D mark iii a year ago, the JPG file sizes output by Lightroom 4 are 'all over the place' from 5 megabytes to about 27 megabytes. As expected, shots that I've cropped fairly strongly are smaller. As I wear my glasses while shooting, I can't see the entire image in the viewfinder and therefore end up shooting about 15% 'wider' than I need. So cropping every photo is my typical mode of operation.
The size problem rears its head on me when I want to put a bunch of photos on a CD or DVD and give them to persons interested in them. Bringing each photo, one at a time, up in Lightroom, manually resizing it and writing it is a very time consuming process, especially when dealing with perhaps 150 or more photos at a time. Needless to say, the annual Festival of the Giving Trees at church a week and a half ago has resulted in perhaps 400 photos to be divided up for perhaps 5-6 different subsets for different target audiences (individual choirs, tree donors, Sunday Christmas contada, etc).
I have done a quicky search on this forum as well as Googled: mass JPG file size reducer and only found a couple of candidates for the task.
Has anyone else run into this problem of needing to shrink a significant number of pictures in a hurry? Preferably, the software used could have a 'threshold' of not shrinking anything that would result in a file size smaller than 6 meg, which would skip trying to shrink 4 meg files, or even 8 meg files by 20%, for example. Any products recommended? Any I should avoid? I'm all for paying for worthwhile products that do the job. But, like anyone else, I don't want to pay $19.95 for a worthless pile of zeros and ones.
And of course...the pictures are processed and I want to start making CDs and DVDs in the next 24 hours or so! Ahhhh...the joys of procrastination!!!