Sharing pics - files too big - help

[Darnold9999]

Got some great pics on my last trip. Some of the other divers want copies. I am having trouble figuring out the best way of doing this.

Shot in compressed RAW - each pic is about 8M. (Nikon compressed RAW) if I convert to JPG even at the maximum resolution the quality is only barely acceptable, TIF and GIF - creates a monster file and the quality is awful! What format can I use that most can open without losing quality?

Any suggestions????

I have Photoshop CS2 and am using Adobe Bridge to convert to JPG and CS2 to convert to TIF and GIF. There are other options, but too many - rather than experiment for hours I thought I would ask.

 

[alcina]

OK, something is wrong as the jpegs should be fine...I routinely print out 4x6's from very small jpeg files.

Are you trying to send them email versions or print them?

 

[Darnold9999]

Email, they will view on screen, print, whatever they want from that point.

This is the jpg version

http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/OrangeBall.jpg

This is the Compressed camera raw with the .xmp file zipped together. The jpg version is considerably poorer quality - so poor it loses much of the effect of the picture. I suspect it is due to the significant data loss from the original RAW which uncompressed would be very large down to the JPG file - even at low compression (high quality) to get to the 3M file.

http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/OrangeBall.zip

 

[sasscuba]

Use www.photobucket.com

 

[alcina]

I just don't have this problem, so not sure why you are having it.

Here is a recent discussion that might be of some use:

http://www.digitaldiver.net/yabbse/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=19250

 

[Darnold9999]

Thank you, that pointed me in the right direction. Need to reduce the image size as well as compress using jpg. It seems that the reduction in image size allows the compression to retain much more detail. Trying to retain the original image size with a 10MP camera is too much for jpg to handle. Throws out way too much of the detail. It also seems that translucence is particularly tricky when compressed - who knew. Thanks again.

The new image 2.2M
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/OrangeBall.jpg

The old image 2.7M
http://www.daconsulting.bc.ca/Dive/OrangeBallOld.jpg

 

[Diver Dennis]

Here's what I do. You can get an email photo to look as good as the original. When you have it open in CS2, click on image and tthen image size. Make it no bigger tham 800 pixels on the longest side. Click OK. Then click file, save as. Change it to JPEG, choose where to save it and when you click save, another box comes up where you can set JPEG options. Move the slider to 6, medium file size, and click OK.

Example of a 196kb file...

The edited PSD file I have is 21.6MB. Email photos should be under 200kb and they can still look great. Even the 2.2MB photo you had is too big.

 

[RV]

now that thing is cool

 

[alcina]

and if you are only posting to web change the profile to srgb or the colours may be off...that does not apply to images you will print mostly, just display on web

 

[Diver Dennis]

You know what alcina? I still can't get my save to web to work. I went through Adobe and they had no idea what it was.