Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/07

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Subject: [Leica] New Leica Website
From: eboehmjr at gmail.com (Eric Boehm, Jr)
Date: Mon Jul 7 12:24:30 2008
References: <36e5c0b10807061958t6d53c96aqf8a57974471281bf@mail.gmail.com> <20080707184306.53A505847ED@smtp1.nine.ch>

Hi Didier,

This is important advice for those of us contemplating putting
together a website of our photographs. I am new to all of this. What I
did was scan the negatives using a Nikon coolscan ad save them as high
resolution tiff files. I then brought them into photoshop and did
"save for the web", whereupon the files were converted to jpeg files.
I noticed that on some images, instead of jpeg files, the computer
saved them as giff files. How can I maximize the resolution of my
images while at the same time have them download quicker. Thanks for
your insight.

Eric Boehm

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Didier Ludwig <leica@screengang.com> wrote:
> Very impressive series, Eric. You captured a lot of interesting 
> personalities, and you captured them well. No need to add the brand name 
> of your camera in your post's subject line to make it more interesting!
>
> Didier
>
> ps: just a web-technical advice - you used all hi resolution images for 
> your website and then resized them with the html image size parameters. Or 
> better said, your program probably did. For instance a 3600 x 2880 pixel 
> file (10MB) is displayed as 560x448 - a picture with that effective size 
> would weight 50KB - 200KB, equal 0.5% to 2% of the hi res sample.
>
> This is not useful in two meanings: it makes loading your website 
> significantly slower, and images resized by html look less good (because 
> they're not anti-aliased = more pixelated) than when correctly resized and 
> moderately unsharp masked, in a picture editing program (like photoshop, 
> lightroom, aperture, or many others).
>
> I dont know your website tool (Trellix Site Builder), it might have an 
> internal picture resizing feature. Otherwise you may use one of the above 
> mentioned apps, or another. There are tons of free little programs doing 
> that, for instance (if you have a windows based computer),  "PIXresizer", 
> "Mihov Image Resizer", "Microsoft Image Resizer" (allows resizing with 
> right clicking on a picture).
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>Dear LUG members,
>>I just set up a new webpage on street photography using the Leica.
>>The address is:
>>http://www.streetphotographyisrael.com/
>>Have a look. I'd appreciate any feedback from Leica users who are
>>street photographers. There is also a blog associated with the site.
>>Many thanks.
>>Eric W.A. Boehm, PhD
>
>
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In reply to: Message from eboehmjr at gmail.com (Eric Boehm, Jr) ([Leica] New Leica Website)
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