Canon 40D on a Mac (size problems)

[Overland04]

I'm having trouble reducing the picture size using my 40D
At it's lowest settings the canon produces a 3.5 to 4mb file. Every time I reduce it to a 50kb size it's hardly still a picture. I's there any program that could reduce the image size and still keep image quality?

I have programs on my Mac such as:

Photoshop CS3
Aperture 2.0
iPhoto
Canon Digital Pro

I've tried some things but I'm definitely missing out on how to do this properly

Pleas Help!

 

["Umm fish?"]

In iPhoto, select the pictures you want, go to the File menu and select export. It'll give you options for different file sizes (like "Web" I believe).

In Photoshop, open the image. Go to Image -> Image Size and then adjust your image size from there.

If you have any questions, let us know.

 

[Overland04]

Yeah I tried that but the smallest that it goes is around 67kb and the picture still looks like crap.
if you look at my most recent pics, I used the canon pro software and they are ok pictures but I see some people with crisp pictures at 680x453 and I cant figure out how?
Grrrr!

 

["Umm fish?"]

Well, I do all of my resizing in Photoshop. I set whatever the long axis of the photo is to 640 and have Photoshop choose the other measurement. I usually set the dpi to 100, but you can go down to 72 dpi if you're aiming for a Mac. After that, save it to a JPEG and choose your level of compression. My files come out to about 150k, but I assume that it's cause I don't compress it any farther and I aim for Windows screen resolution.

I don't know what to tell you otherwise. 50k is pretty darn small.

 

[Overland04]

is it cause your a premium member? meaning you can post pictures @ 150k

 

["Umm fish?"]

Oh... I didn't even think about that. Sorry. I don't host the photos here on Reef Central. I use an outside service and just post links to them here inside of [ img ] tags.

There are lots of websites that'll host your photos with free accounts: Photobucket, Flickr, etc.

 

[Overland04]

I didn't know you can post pictures from other sites..Haha I have a Flickr account Ill Just try to post from there.

 

[Overland04]

Picture test

Picture test

 

[Overland04]

WoooHooo. That was easy! DUHHH

 

["Umm fish?"]

Nice! And nice photo!

 

[Overland04]

Thanks for the help!