W.M.DEEEZ

When I export from picasa, my images are always smaller. I thought I had my settings set at the largest possible, but they always end up in my pictures much smaller.


Maybe I should check again....

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Lolli

Do you mean when you import into Picasa? If yes, where are you importing it from? It might already be shrunk before you import.

Go to Picture > Properties and look at the size to ensure it's actually shrinkage and not the current view you're in. Usually the pic is to large to display so it zooms to 22% of the screen.

W.M.DEEEZ

Nope...importing is fine...even in raw. I'm importing first into my Nikon transfer, then I edit w/picasa. When I export to my pictures, so I can get them to photobucket, they show up much smaller....6.3mb in picasa, and 1.43mb when exported.


Even worse if I try to email them to myself.

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Lolli

Why do you export them? If you have made edits, you just have to save it, not export...maybe I'm missing something.

However, if you do need to export them, when you go to File > Export Picture to Folder, there's an option that says "Use original size" make sure that's selected (it's not the default).

Alwayzpeaceful

I didn't even think about Picasa. Can you insert photos from picasa to here. I saw people using Photobucket.

I used auto settings. I did not edit the pictures at all. I have an interest in photography so I was just playing around. When I get more serious about as I do at times I will work on other camera. This one is mostly used for my work.

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guest1234567

It's hard for me to explain layers properly, but I found this video review of paint.net (another freeware image program) that shows examples.

Paint.NET - Reviews and free Paint.NET downloads at Download.com

and here's a gimp review

GIMP - Reviews and free GIMP downloads at Download.com

guest1234567

Also, check the settings in photobucket, because it can also reduce the size of the picture on import.

And some email programs can be set to automatically reduce photos for faster transmission.

guest1234567

This looks like a good site for Gimp tutorial videos:

25 GIMP Video Tutorials to Help Get You Started | Six Revisions - Useful information for Web Developers and Designers

W.M.DEEEZ

When I right click on an image in picasa, if I'm not mistaken the save option is to copy to a disk.


I thought I had to export it to be able to get it into photobucket.

I did check my settings, and changed it back to "use original size"...


I have been fiddling around, and open them in Ifranview...then I seem to be able to save them w/out as much compression. I'm not sure I get the edits that were done, though...






edit...I can't seem to browse my picasa pics from photobucket...can you?

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W.M.DEEEZ

I'm going to look into this info when I get a moment...It seems this is for full blown photoshopping, when all I really use is the crop feature, and some sharpening once in a while...

Lighting needs to be altered on occasion too, but that's about it.

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