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<p>[QUOTE="sturmgrenadier, post: 1085408, member: 18711"]Thanks all of you for the suggestions. I downloaded Photoscape and Irfanview and tried them out. I'm still having difficulty reducing the size (memory) of my picture files to get under the 120 KB NGC upload limit. It's very strange: when I crop a photo that has been taken at a relatively longer distance, I'm able to get the file size under the limit (albeit with a relatively grainy image). When I try to take a photo close up (just a few inches away from the camera), no amount of cropping can reduce the picture to anywhere close to the limit. For example, I have a nice Pan-Pac, I've been trying to shoot and I can only get it down to 850KB. Anyhow, thanks for trying to point me in the right direction. It's frustrating having the coin, but not the expertise needed to share them with others<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I've thought about checking out coin photography books, but I don't know if they cover topics like resizing to a smaller (memory size) photo. I've taken a look at other collections at the NGC registry and some members have done an excellent job of putting together uniformly high-resolution photos that can be blown-up for all of the coins in their collections. I wonder if there was a learning curve for these people in editing and uploading their pics. Or if this is a relatively straightforward task that I am just not 'getting'? IS photo publishing somewhat analagous to learning coin grading (it takes a lifetime to master)?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="sturmgrenadier, post: 1085408, member: 18711"]Thanks all of you for the suggestions. I downloaded Photoscape and Irfanview and tried them out. I'm still having difficulty reducing the size (memory) of my picture files to get under the 120 KB NGC upload limit. It's very strange: when I crop a photo that has been taken at a relatively longer distance, I'm able to get the file size under the limit (albeit with a relatively grainy image). When I try to take a photo close up (just a few inches away from the camera), no amount of cropping can reduce the picture to anywhere close to the limit. For example, I have a nice Pan-Pac, I've been trying to shoot and I can only get it down to 850KB. Anyhow, thanks for trying to point me in the right direction. It's frustrating having the coin, but not the expertise needed to share them with others:( I've thought about checking out coin photography books, but I don't know if they cover topics like resizing to a smaller (memory size) photo. I've taken a look at other collections at the NGC registry and some members have done an excellent job of putting together uniformly high-resolution photos that can be blown-up for all of the coins in their collections. I wonder if there was a learning curve for these people in editing and uploading their pics. Or if this is a relatively straightforward task that I am just not 'getting'? IS photo publishing somewhat analagous to learning coin grading (it takes a lifetime to master)?[/QUOTE]
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