1.
What's the best / easiest method to make a reasonable thumbnail from an image?
2.
What method do you use to reduce the size of an image for posting? I want to downsize images to post, down to 800x600 or maybe 1024x768 but think I can remember the "fine print" saying to post an image, try keeping it down to 800x600 or something like that.
When I downsize, they still end up as quite large files, and when I right click on the file and "properties", I can still see all the guff that goes with the photo - aperture size, zoom length and all the rest. I want to get rid of all that so I end up with the smallest filesize possible but still have a quite acceptable image for posting.
What file size should they end up as? Thoughts?
3.
A friend of mine has an Olympus camera. He had a disk crash and now many of his photos cannot be viewed.
I have copies of them all, but can't seem to get any program to open them.
Does anyone know of any software that I can use to tell the software "this is a jpg, repair it" and see whether it is possible? Any other ideas?
I have used a hex viewer and it still looks like a jpg, no word docs or large blank sections or anything, so I'm hoping it isn't too many bits or bytes in the wrong place.
Any input on any of these questions would be appreciated. BTW I have PS CS but haven't got my drivers license for it yet... Lots of time required for that one...
