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Putting photos on a CD for a friend

IMO it depends on how much time you are willing to devote to this project. That and if the friend has any experience in PP themselves.

The size really depends on how they will be used. I would stay as large as the original file as a default.

reply to SueS
If the photos have no value to you, I would suggest not resizing them. That way, if they decide to make prints, they will have the highest resolution to do so. As far as sharpening, since I don't know what method you normally use to sharpen your images, I can't say. I suppose you could do a batch process, but I'm not sure how you'd do that in GIMP.

reply to SueS
Would the full size be ok if they should decide to put some on facebook? I don't do facebook. I was planning to give them the full size, but was wondering about also including a different size for web use.

I think Facebook, by default, automatically resizes photos. There is an option that allows the user to manually choose to upload "high quality" photos.

Thanks

reply to SueS
I'd give the friend a quick call and ask how (s)he plans to use them.

You will then have an idea how much, if any, to resize.

Then, burn a CD with full resolution images and another with batch resized images. That way one CD can be used for prints and another for uploading. The advantage of resizing down is that resized images, being smaller files, won't take as long to upload or email.

Thanks, part of the problem is, it will be more than one person using them. It's a whole family. I was thinking (hoping) there might be a way or two, to cover all bases and be done.

Would the full size and resized images fit on a DVD? If so, ask if they have DVD readers. Most PCs newer than three years old have DVD/CD readers.

Then, create two folders - one for each size and burn both. A single side DVD will hold about 4 GB. That's quite a few images, even in hi-res RAW format.

Sounds like a plan. What size would you suggest for facebook?

I'd say 800 pixels wide would be plenty. It would be big enough to see easily while allowing people to view inserted images in an email without having to scroll left to right. If they decide to take them to Walmart to print them, they could use the hi-res images.

I assume that you'd rename the resized images with a file suffix like _800 so the user can differentiate the resized file from the original.

Example;
Original file; IMG2001
Resized file; IMG2001_800

Some of those store self-serve photo kiosks don't show folders, only a list of all images on the media, nor do they show file size.

Using a format like IMG2001_800 for resized photos would eliminate guessing when selecting files for printing.

Thanks, you are being very helpful. I usually upload photos when I want to print, so I did not know about the kiosks.

Always glad to help you out whenever I can!

reply to EGeezer
Geezer has almost the right info.

Facebook maxes out at 900px on the long side.

If you want them to be able to utilize the "Download High Rez" feature on Facebook, resize to 2000px (which is the cap for that feature on the long side.

Also, that file renaming is a great idea. Those kiosks are disasters.
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Thanks for the input! I'm not a Facebook fan, so made a best guess on what would look good.

Someone who posts in the Security forum often not like facebook? Color me surprised
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reply to SueS
for facebook, simply put as others have mentioned, takes any hi res image, creates i think 5 image sizes (including a new 2048 pix hi res version), stores the images on a CDN (content delivery network), and throws away the hi res image.

»www.insidefacebook.com/2010/09/3···olution/

I would not use facebook as an "archival" site for images as it does not store the orig hi res image. Other sites, like flickr, shutterfly, google picasa, etc have the ability to store the orig size image (in addition the the viewing thumbnail versions).

I shot a pics of my friend's son birthday party. I just gave them a dvd with the orig images and let them take care of it. When they upload it to facebook, the facebook upload api will take care of the resizing.

One thing to note is that with the facebook image handling (they use imagemagik IIRC), if you can meet their size formula, the image doesn't pass through the filter and looks significantly better.
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reply to SueS
Thanks guys, this is all interesting information for those of us who don't use facebook.

I went with EGeezer's recommendation's, except I did 900 pixels on the long side, because that is what I normally do with photos I e-mail. Guess I got lucky