Flea Market Picture Quality

[cberry]

I just posted an ad for my R1200RT with pictures. But-----The pictures are unclear when enlarged. How do I correct the situation? The posted pics are in a JPEG format and were reduced per the flea market FAQ's. They are even unclear when I view them direct from my computer.:banghead

[20774]

The instructions say to have pictures 500kb or less in size. Several other flea market ads have pretty decent photos, so it obviously can be done. It appears that your pictures are much less than 100kb, so you have some room to make them bigger and better.

My guess is that when creating the photo to upload, you did some resampling and in the process reduced the quality of that image. Saving as a JPG is a form of compression. You can compress the photo to minimize the size but the quality suffers. Of you can compress the photo to maximize the quality, but that requres more file size to do that. You need to find the happy balance between the two in order to get the best looking picture that is still 500kb or less big.

Can you provide some explanation as to how you created your pictures that you uploaded? I presume you had digital pictures...with a good camera or your cell phone? What size are your original pictures? 100kb...500kb...1Mb? How do you reduce them or resample them...what program? Some programs which create images for addition to emails drastically reduce the size and quality of pictures in order to not create such big files and huge emails attachments. So, that can be a problem.

So, it appears that your pictures are quite small to begin with. First step is to get bigger pictures.

Let us know if that helps or you need more help.

[cberry]

Thanks for the prompt reply Kurt. The original images are roughly 2.5 M on my SD card. I used the FAQ instructions and IRFANVIEW program to resize. Something I did is very wrong so I will try again with some changes.

[20774]

Wait, you're not THAT Chuck Berry?? :stick

I like the Irafanview program. Two things you should do. First select Image, Resample/Resize. Try 800x600 or 640x480. Then do Save As and select JPG. This is where you'll need to choose the level of quality such that the final file size is 450 to 500Kb big. That should do it.

[cberry]

New and better quality images have been posted.:beer

Thanks again Kurt

[20774]

:thumb Looks much better!