UTA_flyinghigh From Tunisia, joined Oct 2001, 6495 posts, RR: 52 Posted (6 years 10 months 1 week 9 hours ago) and read 1004 times:
So it appears my cousinette has sent me pics of her newborn.
However it also appears that she has yet to grasp the concept of resizing the pictures produced by her 7MP point-and-shoot, therefore she sends to the whole family pictures that are 5/6MB in size. Rhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !
Do your family/friends display the same level of foolishness ?
UTA
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Mhodgson From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2002, 5047 posts, RR: 29 Reply 1, posted (6 years 10 months 1 week 9 hours ago) and read 1004 times:
Almost all of them - most of them struggle connecting the USB cable to the camera, so I'm not too suprised when I recieve stupid-sized attachments. I'm just glad I'm on broadband.
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Clogman From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (6 years 10 months 1 week 9 hours ago) and read 995 times:
Unfortnuatly my parents does that too. And the pictures are soo big that they cant even fit in the screen. So you have to scroll up and down and from side to side to see the damn pictures.
ZakHH From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (6 years 10 months 1 week 8 hours ago) and read 963 times:
Family - no, almost no one would know how to send an e-mail anyway...
Customers & biz partners - rhaa! Just today, I received a PDF that consisted of 1 (one) scanned b/w page with some 10 lines of text, and the doc had a size of 1,5 MB. Rhaa!
Sabena332 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (6 years 10 months 1 week 7 hours ago) and read 931 times:
I noticed the same in the Trip Report Forum here on A.net, some people don't resize their pics and so their reports need an hour or so to load. Rhaaaa....
LO231 From Belgium, joined Sep 2004, 2299 posts, RR: 25 Reply 7, posted (6 years 10 months 1 week 6 hours ago) and read 907 times:
Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 5): I noticed the same in the Trip Report Forum here on A.net, some people don't resize their pics and so their reports need an hour or so to load. Rhaaaa....
Patrick
I'm preparing a trip report actually and don't know how to resize pictures, too. (yes, that stupid, haha)
What's the best way?
Regards,
LO231
[Edited 2006-07-24 15:51:39]
Got both LO 788 frames already, next SN BRU-VCE-BRU
UTA_flyinghigh From Tunisia, joined Oct 2001, 6495 posts, RR: 52 Reply 8, posted (6 years 10 months 1 week 6 hours ago) and read 903 times:
Quoting LO231 (Reply 7): I'm preparing a trip report actually and don't know how to resize pictures, too. (yes, that stupid, haha)
What's the best way?
Ha all that was meant as a joke, lol.
First of all you shall (...) need some kind of image-editing software. Photoshop is the best but is not free , however I believe that some image-editing freeware surely exists.
Next up is changing the picture size to 800 X 600 pixels or even 640 X 480 pixels. For a web usage you might even want to lower the compression ration of the pictures, making them lighter in size and thus faster to load.
Bear in mind that the more you compress them the lower the quality will be.
UTA
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SlamClick From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 10062 posts, RR: 71 Reply 12, posted (6 years 10 months 1 week 5 hours ago) and read 860 times:
A friend of my wife's took some digital pictures which we wanted copies of. She had them printed then the prints scanned to send to us. She still does not understand that we preferred that she simply send us the original files. Maybe she thinks if she does then she won't have them anymore.
(Sorry about using a preposition to end the first sentence with.)
Happiness is not seeing another trite Ste. Maarten photo all week long.
A friend of mine bought a digicam a couple of months ago. We went on a weekend trip some days after, and to our surprise, his girlfriend produced several film boxes out of her handbag. Everybody bit his lip, and we sat and watched her trying to put the film into the digicam. We really tried hard, but after a mere minute, the first guy burst into laughter, and everybody joined in.
But it got even better: one of us managed to utter a few words under his laughter and said "Honey, that's a digicam!". And she seriously replied: "I'm aware of this. So where do you put the film into these?"
Seriously, one of the guys did wet his pants.
Turned out she really thought that the only difference between a digicam and a negative cam was the shiny display on the backside. Nb: this was only few months ago, this girl is 30 years of age, and she's a highschool teacher...
BA757 From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 2832 posts, RR: 16 Reply 15, posted (6 years 10 months 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 789 times:
Quoting ZakHH (Reply 14): Turned out she really thought that the only difference between a digicam and a negative cam was the shiny display on the backside. Nb: this was only few months ago, this girl is 30 years of age, and she's a highschool teacher...
I'm not that surprised she didn't know the difference between a digital and film camera.
In one of my previous jobs I was frequently asked the difference between them... it seems to me a good percentage of Joe Public don't know.
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