File Size?

[wanabeimagineer]

I'm trying to make my photo album on this website but my pictures are ending up taking way too much disk space. I only get 1MB and that's over half-gone and I've only used 4 pictures! Some people on here have over 10 in less space than that. Can someone please help me, is there any way to make the file size smaller? Thanks in advance, and if it'll help you answer my question, take a look at my photo album:
wanabeimagineer's photo album

 

[wdwmagic]

Do you have access to any photo editing software? Adobe Photoshop or Photo Deluxe? To get your images smaller you can do one of two things (or both)..

- Reduce the resolution (pixel size)

- Use higher JPEG compression.

Both of these are normally set when you save the file in the editing program, or in the file properties.

 

[PhotoDave219]

For an example, all of my photos (i think) are either 640 pixels wide or 480 pixels high at 72 dpi, resulting in a nice Approx 6x4 image for the web.

I'd delete what you've uploaded and downsample the images to something around 640x480 or smaller.

This can be change in the "Image Size" dialogue in photoshop.

 

[darthdarrel]

I use vueprint and it has a resize option

 

[wanabeimagineer]

Well right now I'm using Photo Impressions and Image Expert and I tried resizing them by making them less pixels but they're still around 150 kb. By the way, why do mine have 2 choices under "image size" or something like that? Because it's the second one that's so big.

 

[wanabeimagineer]

I just tried changing the image size in terms of pixels, I made it half of what it was before and that didn't change the file size at all. I changed the dpi as well and that had no effect. I'm lost :veryconfu

 

[NowInc]

Compression is more than just the physical size of an image, as steve said..try using a higher compress rate. I usually use around a 75% 80% quality setting, usually lowers the file sizes massivly without compromising quality.

Also..make sure you are using JPG and not GIF, BMP, etc...only jpeg

 

[wanabeimagineer]

Originally posted by NowInc
Compression is more than just the physical size of an image, as steve said..try using a higher compress rate. I usually use around a 75% 80% quality setting, usually lowers the file sizes massivly without compromising quality.

Also..make sure you are using JPG and not GIF, BMP, etc...only jpeg

Yea I have jpegs. But how do change the compress rate? I'm not really sure what the quality setting is at, maybe if I change that it'll work.