Re: photo size
Posted by:
Kathryn Townsend (IP Logged)
Date: October 30, 2003 01:31PM
Hi Jim,
It will be better to use lower resolution images for the database and keep your high resolution images in a separate folder. There are a few reasons for this:
--The image is not actually stored in the database--just the path to the image. So when you are paging through the artwork records, if the image files are large, it will take time for each image to load. Depending on the capacity of your computer, if you page rapidly with large images, it can cause the program to abort.
--If you want to print slide sheets of images, there may not be enough memory to print more than a few images if the image size is large.
--If the image is too large for the memory on your machine, WA will not display it and you will get an error message.
--When the image is very large, it may look distorted when compressed into a small frame (particularly true of bmp images).
The progress bar can also impede the display of images. There is an article in our knowledge base under Known Bugs about turning off the progress bar for displaying jpg's or other images.
The size that seems to work best is somewhere between 25 and 100 kb per image, but if you have a fast machine, you can probably go higher. On my machine I can display images that are 1 mb or more, but I wouldn't recommend this for the reasons stated above.
Also, if you don't have Microsoft Office or Microsoft Word installed on your computer, you probably don't have the Microsoft Graphics Filters. If this is the case, go to Artist Info, click on the Artwork tab, and select the Alt Filters option in the Image Display Method combo-box.
Your image editing software may have a utility to do a batch resize of image files into a new folder. If it doesn't, let me know and I'll do some research on it--at one time I had an inexpensive utility to do that but it went the way of my last hard drive.
Hope this helps!
Kathryn
http:www.WorkingArtist.com