How do I change the pixel on my Olympus camera?

Question

Whenever I send a pic ove the computer they are huge and it's taking up alot of the memory on my XD card! I lost my manual...help!

Answer 1

Well if you want to keep your quality the same (and I suggest you do, XD cards are cheap just purchase more). Then what you need to do is RESIZE the image before mailing it.

If you are using WINDOWS you should be able to open the image from your camera in a program called MS PHOTO EDITOR
you want to change the RESOLUTION you image is most likely 300 DPI for e-mail you want 72

Change the Resolution of an Image - Resolution is the number of pixels in an image. A higher number correlated to a higher quality of image. Sometimes you want to decrease the resolution of an image to lower the file size. REMEMBER, you can decrease the number of pixels in an image but you can't always increase pixels without distortion or pixelation.

1. Open Microsoft Photo Editor
2. From the File menu (or open icon), choose Open. Navigate to where you have your photos or images stored. Click on the one you want to open.
3. From the File menu, choose Properties
4. Resolution will be listed. If it says 300, you can drop that to 150 and still print the photo. If you drop the resolution to 72, this photo can be used to display on monitor or projector in PowerPoint or on the web. The photo will not print very sharp at this resolution.

Answer 2

Ok for olympus camera's they are rated at
SQ1 - Standard Quality 1 (640x480) - website resolution
SQ2 - Standard qualiyt 2(800x600) - high res email
HQ High Quality (typicaly 1-2 megs below highest res (my wife's 8 meg turns into a 6 meg at this seting)
SHQ - Super High Quality - hghest JPG setting using fullest resolution (eg my wife's 8 meg shooting at 8 meg)
TIFF Fullest resolution but uncompressed (bigger files)
RAW - in most cases no need to shoot at this setting if unless your a profesional shooter or really like to edit your files.

Answer 3

after u upload on your pc,u can use a photo editing software and reduce the "resolution" which will reduce the quality a bit ,but it wont' be a problem unless u want the other person to print the picture in a large format.