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I know this is a stupid question to all of you but since I have moved away from my old point and shoot I find that the pictures I'm taking with my D90 are taking forever to show up on my laptop and the files are too large to place on my flicker account? Can you please help me out with this. Thank you and I hope you are all having a holiday season.

You've got a couple options.

1) (easy way) lower the resolution in your camera to take smaller pictures

2) use an image editing software (photoshop, lightroom, aperture, etc) to edit the size of your picture. I would refrain from using MSpaint as their algorithms for shrinking and enlarging images isn't that great.

edit: Woo lucky post 888!

I used the image resizer powertoy for windows XP. There is something similar for Win7, but it's hit and miss on some types of shot.

Can you suggest to me a resolution that is good for shooting? Thank you

I will have to do a little homework on this as I havfe XP but had no idea about the image resizer powertoy for windows XP. Thanks!

Use google's free picasa for resizing and minor touchups and exporting to web. The seperate picasa viewer that comes with picasa is one of the fastest viewers I have tried far better then the the microsoft built in one.

http://picasa.google.com/

Use google's free picasa for resizing and minor touchups and exporting to web. The separate picasa viewer that comes with picasa is one of the fastest viewers I have tried far better then the the microsoft built in one.

http://picasa.google.com/

Thanks Metrix's I will have a look.

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Before jumping into this, maybe we should have a little more info from you.

First, what image settings are you using on your camera JPEG (including quality setting), or RAW?

Second, what are you using to view the images on your XP laptop? How much memory does your laptop have...do you have a more powerful desktop you can process the images on?




Since memory and storage space is cheap these days, reducing the image in camera is something that's best avoided, because once that information is tossed it's gone forever.

Many insist on shooting RAW since you're getting every bit of data the sensor sees, including more colours (12-14bit, vs 8bit for JPEG); personally though sRGB JPEG is "good enough" for my needs, but I set it to the highest JPEG resolution. Occasionally I will use RAW+JPEG if I really intend to process the image.

any idea how that comares to MS Office Picture Manager?

No idea. The powertoy is just for very quick image resizes from the explorer window. For image viewing I use irfanview.

Yeah, looks like it's a quick tool while the Pic Manager is more involved if needed.