Quality of Photos on Website

[Steve Easton]

Resize your images "before" you import them into your web page.

A great tool for this is the free IrfanView. www.irfanview.com

Also, after you resize them save them as .jpg files with the quality set at 75%
It will greatly reduce the file size.


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[Guest]

I'm hoping someone can help me improve the quality of my photos on my website.

First a little background: I have a "just for fun" website. I use FP2000 to
create it, and it is hosted by GoDaddy. I only work in the normal view of FP,
and know nothing about html.

I take photos with my digital camera, save them to my computer in My
Pictures, and then in FP I "insert picture from file." The picture loses
quality when I resize it (to a smaller size) to fit on the website page
properly. (If an option is using thumbnails, I don't really want to do that.)

Some of the things I have tried:
I have Microsoft Picture It! and have tried opening pictures in there and
saving as "webpage ready" but that doesn't seem to help.

I have also tried selecting the picture in My Pictures, selecting copy and
then in FP selecting paste. But once I resize the picture, again, I lose
quality.

I opened a picture in Microsoft Word, clicked on copy, then went to my
website page and clicked on paste. The pictures looked great! But then I
came to realize that not everyone could view the pictures. Seemed to be ok
for people with high speed internet but not dial-up. I notciced that the
picture properties changed from "Dell Image Expert Picture" to "Html
Document."

So I went back and changed them to the way I originally inserted them.

Is there some way I can resize the picture and retain quality?
In case you want to see what I mean by the quailty, my website is
www.meowsette.com
In larger pictures the quality isn't bad. And actually some of the pictures
are larger than I wanted them only so they would look better quality wise.
Thanks for any help!
Patti

 

[Guest]

Thank you so much for your quick response. I will definitely try your
suggestions.

 

[E. T. Culling]

This article may help you, I hope:
http://www.eleanorstravels.com/frontpage_images/index.htm
Your photo must be resized and optimized for the web before you IMPORT into
your site's images file.
Eleanor

 

[p c]

You can use Picassa to edit pictures, free from google.

Windows Paint that comes with Win XP is good, too.

As everyone else said, the rick is to edit before you import

...PC

 

[Steve Easton]

You're welcome.

;-)

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Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed............
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[Karen]

Patti -

I use Microsoft's powertoy resizer to quickly change image sizes. It will
do mutiple images at one time.
Read about it at the link below. It is free.


http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/learnmore/tips/eschelman2.mspx

Karen

 

[Andrew Murray]

I'm hoping someone can help me improve the quality of my photos on my
website.

First a little background: I have a "just for fun" website. I use FP2000
to
create it, and it is hosted by GoDaddy. I only work in the normal view of
FP,
and know nothing about html.

I take photos with my digital camera, save them to my computer in My
Pictures, and then in FP I "insert picture from file." The picture loses
quality when I resize it (to a smaller size) to fit on the website page
properly. (If an option is using thumbnails, I don't really want to do
that.)

Some of the things I have tried:
I have Microsoft Picture It! and have tried opening pictures in there and
saving as "webpage ready" but that doesn't seem to help.

I have also tried selecting the picture in My Pictures, selecting copy and
then in FP selecting paste. But once I resize the picture, again, I lose
quality.

I opened a picture in Microsoft Word, clicked on copy, then went to my
website page and clicked on paste. The pictures looked great! But then I
came to realize that not everyone could view the pictures. Seemed to be ok
for people with high speed internet but not dial-up. I notciced that the
picture properties changed from "Dell Image Expert Picture" to "Html
Document."

So I went back and changed them to the way I originally inserted them.

Is there some way I can resize the picture and retain quality?
In case you want to see what I mean by the quailty, my website is
www.meowsette.com
In larger pictures the quality isn't bad. And actually some of the
pictures
are larger than I wanted them only so they would look better quality wise.
Thanks for any help!
Patti