Is there a way to make the digital camera files smaller on your computer without affecting the quality of them, so you could attach them to email storage faster and not wait hours to attach your whole memory card? No.
When you reduce the size of an image file, data is lost and quality is lost.
The best way to store your image files is to put them on CD's or if you have a lot of them DVD's
As you saw recently, you cannot count on on-line storage to keep your images secure. When Yahoo decided to do away with their picture service, many were caught off guard and if they do not download them, they will loose their photos.
JPEG is the equivalent of Zipping files.
I use a lot of 4GB memory cards and it only takes a few minutes to move images to my computer.
Email quality image files are a separate deal. You have to resize your high res images and save them as a different file name ... I put a small "i" infront of th original file name to remind me they are "Internet ready" No. Jpeg files are already compressed, so using a zipping program or some other compression program can actually boomerang and make them bigger.
You could take the jpeg files and apply a stronger jpeg compression to them which would make the files smaller, but at the cost of quality.
Alternatively, you could resize the jpeg files to the bare minimum size you need (let's say for web-only display, not printing) and that would save you tremendous amounts of file space.
If you're looking to store them online, as your question seems to say, then pretty much you'll have to upload them over several hours, unless your online photo storage company allows you to mail in CD's or DVD's for their employees to upload for you. |
