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Next Photo Comp round: Extended Exposure

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
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Ragnorak, Lord of the Focus Rings?

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
Depends on whether I get out of bed at 6am during the next week or not.

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I've been planning for more than two years to do that 🙂

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
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LOL! Just kidding, Ragnorak. Juuust kiddin'. 🙂

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Bump.

See the original post.Thread 43295

T-5 days to get out of bed at 6am.

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
Bump.

See the original post.Thread 43295

T-5 days to get out of bed at 6am.

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T-5? What does that mean?

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Originally posted by Nordlys
T-5? What does that mean?
Tea minus five.

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Originally posted by Nordlys
T-5? What does that mean?
More than you ever needed to know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown

(Time flies like a ) bananawho

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Originally posted by bananawho
More than you ever needed to know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown

(Time flies like a ) bananawho
Ah, thanks. So there's no tea involved after all. 🙂

(Fruit flies like) noodles

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So who's in? I have my 3, I think. The weather looks to have beaten me on the 6am rise, though. 😞 And I was so looking forward to it.

Getting the files to under 200kb is tough. One of my photos is suffering from serious artifacts. All I'm doing is using Gimp to resize the photo and then saving. Any better way to go about it?

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
So who's in?
So far I got pictures from Gatecrasher, Wheely, and pinkthunder. There will be a non-voting section this time.

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
So who's in? I have my 3, I think. The weather looks to have beaten me on the 6am rise, though. 😞 And I was so looking forward to it.

Getting the files to under 200kb is tough. One of my photos is suffering from serious artifacts. All I'm doing is using Gimp to resize the photo and then saving. Any better way to go about it?

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That's all I do, Rag. I just tell my photo editor to 'Save for Web', then I choose the value that gets me closest to 200kb. I haven't noticed toooo much of a loss. I usually resize to 700 x 513 (or whatever the vertical number is) to maintain quality. When you subtract the address bar, menus, taskbars, etc., a ~500-pixels-tall picture fits well into a 1024 wide x 768 tall browser. (I think up to 550 pixels is safe.)

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I use Photo Studio which I got with my Canon printer. I resize, and then "save as", which gives a JPG quality bar. I choose the best quality and then work downwards until the filesize is under 200kb.

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Originally posted by Ragnorak
So who's in? I have my 3, I think. The weather looks to have beaten me on the 6am rise, though. 😞 And I was so looking forward to it.

Getting the files to under 200kb is tough. One of my photos is suffering from serious artifacts. All I'm doing is using Gimp to resize the photo and then saving. Any better way to go about it?

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How are you resizing?

You can speak "Gimp" to me as that's what I use.

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Originally posted by Gatecrasher
I use Photo Studio which I got with my Canon printer. I resize, and then "save as", which gives a JPG quality bar. I choose the best quality and then work downwards until the filesize is under 200kb.
That's approximately what I do in Photoshop. I have also tried using Irfan View, but I often get lines or artifacts with that.

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Originally posted by Wheely
How are you resizing?

You can speak "Gimp" to me as that's what I use.
I just click on image, scale image, and change the image size. Should I adjust the X & Y resolution?

Then I click save as, and set the slider to best quality.

I think it may just be the tones in the image not being suited to compression too well, as I haven't really had any problems with the others.

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