How can I re-save my photos at a smaller size for moblogging?

Published by Steve Litchfield at 20:40 UTC, January 31st 2006

Question:

Q. I want to start moblogging from my Nokia megapixel smartphone but I'm very wary of the GPRS costs of sending my megapixel images (up to 600K each) over the air. Is there any software that can reduce the pixel size of each image prior to sending it? I don't want to take my photos in a lower resolution because at the end of the day I also want to print most of them.

Answer:

A. An interesting problem and there's a solution, although you'll need to pay up for a third party application, PhotoRite SP.

Start up PhotoRite SP and browse to an image that you'd like to save in 'reduced' form. Note that the trial version is fully working apart from including it's own 'advert' watermark as part of your picture, so you'll need to register the program before using it to work on images destined for your moblog.

With your megapixel image open in PhotoRite SP, press 'Options' and scroll down the menu to 'Save as'. Press the navigator right to see the various save options. These include '640 by 480', the optimum resolution for moblogging these days. Give the new file a name and your photo will be resized.

Now go back and open up the new image, which should have appeared in your Pictures folder. Press 'Options' and scroll down to 'Image details'. You can confirm the resolution of the new photo here, although 120K or so is still perhaps on the large size for GPRS sending on a pay-as-you-go tariff.



 

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Platforms: Series 60

Categories: Applications, Performance, Communications

Discussion

Filipe M.
I've found another way of doing this within the smartphone itself, no third party software included:

Go to the picture you want to shrink, "Send via Multimedia". Providing you have your Multimedia Message settings to "Picture size: Large", the smartphone will automatically resize the picture to 640x480 when inserting in a new MMS. You can then access the picture, save it where you want it, delete the unsent message and you're done.

Hope this helps,

Filipe
damien.nimai
Also if you view the image via the gallery (N70 onwards I think) and highlight it, in options there is SHRINK. This will shrink the image down to usually less than 30kb.

Be warned though that it replaces the original image so if you want to keep the original quality- transfer a copy to your pc before SHINKing

:)

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