Boats

After you load your photos to your computer.  Click on a photo to look at it.  If you have any kind of a photo program that will allow you to edit the photo in any way, after you make any adjustments, click on the "File" button on the task bar and select "Save as". change the file name which will be high-lighted, and save your adjusted file  under the new name.  Be sure when you close the original file when it asks you, "Do you want to save the changes", click "NO".  What you now have is two separate files, one "The original, the the other your adjusted copy.  You can make as many versions of the original as you want as long as you save each copy under a new name.  

On your digital camera, you can select the resolution which  will make the file larger or smaller.  Personally I take my pictures at the highest resolution and after I put them on the computer click  on image and  make the file smaller in a "Saved as" file being careful not to change the original copy.

Hope might help,

Don G.

PS  I recommend a program like Adobe Photo Elements II for editing your photos.

Look at the pictures I posted on the "Russ W" thread!

equote author=boats link=1170599395/0#0 date=1170599394]New thread hoping for some good advice.  Being new to digital I am trying to figure out the best way to handle files. Have been working on photographing some of my Schuetzen gear.

I understand the various file and image sizes avalable. It seems if you take the picture from the start with internet posting in mind usiing a small size file you can't go back later and re work the file with high defination or larger image.

But is the reverse true. Taking the orig photo in high def and large image size can you shrink everthing later if you want to post it to this site ?

Boats [/quote]

Boats

I am not familiar with the Nikon software.  My cameras are a Pentax istD and an Olympus C-740.  The Pentax software that came with the camera is good but not in the same league with the Adobe software.  The software that came with the Olympus is terrible.  I have an idea the Nikon software has the same limitations but that is an assumption on my part.  The camera people are in the market to sell cameras, not software.

Unless you are hurting for card space (Like maybe on a vacation or something), my opinion is to take pictures of the highest quality possible which results in huge files and then edit them the way you want.

By the way, try "Cropping" small sections out of huge file to get a much smaller imgage and file size without sacrificing resolution.  You can get the effects of a "Macro" shot with most any lens.  Try it?? attached is a crop of the turrets of your scope.



Don G.

[quote author=boats link=1170599395/0#2 date=1170617363]Thanks Don

"So the advice is still to take the highest resolution image but save another version of the same image reduced in size as well as resolution. I was missing the size part."

Dale & Don

Thanks. more very good advice.   

I had held off from Digital for years because of the computer part of the job. Not that I don't use computers, have since the IBM XT for business just never used one much at all for personal use.  And I took a lot of 35 mm and have a good selection of cameras and lens in that format.

However since changing over I am sold on digital, Editong Croping color control etc are very easy and I don't have to wait for the local processor.  Things that I had lots of experence with are not much different but tricky lighting situations the ablity to edit on the job and again later is invaluable.  What I am working on now is photographing my Schuetzen rifles, gear and all the varous tools. All with difficult lighting

Storage and my laptops ablity to handle the files are another thing. It's frustrating to say the least.  This NIkon program may well have to go. I still have Adobe Photoshop should I want to re-install.  I am going to have a look at that Microsoft program. If it's between the cameras and Adobe it may be the thing to do.

Boats