I want to save several pictures on a disc but they take up to much room. I'm only managing 1 or 2 per disc
2007-02-08 07:45:03 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
If you are only getting 2 pictures on each floppy, you must have them in bitmap (.bmp) format. Convert them to .jpg format by opening and resaving them. That should reduce the dataset sizes to roughly 50K per picture, and you will have no trouble putting at least 20 pictures on a 1.4 meg floppy.
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Heh... I love all these techie answers, telling you buy a CD burner or other equipment. That's not to say to say CD burners aren't handy for some applications, but if all you want to do is save a few pictures, it's a silly way to spend money.
2007-02-08 08:03:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Floppies. Do they still sell those. I'm surprised your even getting 2 photos on one. My God 32mb thumbdrives are being given away at wallmart for around 5 bucks and even that will hold about 50 times the amount od f the laughable storage capacity of the ever unreliable floppies.
2007-02-08 08:33:47 · answer #2 · answered by postmasterfsx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will have to size them down by either lowering the resolution, or by making the dimensions smaller. A floppy will hold a maximum of 1.4MB of data and if you aren't resizing your photos you will fill a disk up in a hurry, as you have experienced. If you don't have photoshop, or any other comparable photo editing software, you can still do this in Windows Imaging software that comes loaded in Windows.
The other option is to buy a 512MB USB Flash Drive and store them on it.
2007-02-08 07:52:10 · answer #3 · answered by PDH 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You can try compressing (zipping) them using something like winzip but to be honest in most common file formats for photo's (jpg, gif, etc) they are already compressed quite heavily. One way to reduce the file size is to lower the quality of the photo's you have taken. If you want to keep the quality the best option is to burn your photo's onto a CD or DVD if you have suitable hardware. If not go for a cheap USB memory stick - you'll be able to fit a lot more photo's on those - they are cheap, portable and easy to use. Best of luck!!!
2007-02-08 07:51:50 · answer #4 · answered by Henkrik 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they just wont fit on a floppy disk the pics wil be too big and a floppy has very limited space. Invest in a usb stick at least.
2007-02-08 07:49:31 · answer #5 · answered by jackie_1969uk 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Another option might be saving the pictures with your internet provider. Many internet providers provide free online storage.
I have AT&T Yahoo. They allow me to store up to 1024 MB online in my "Yahoo Briefcase". Thats a lot of 1.44MB floppy disks. I also am allowed to share my "Yahoo Briefcase" with others over the internet. A friend of yours then could open your briefcase and copy them to a CD for you.
2007-02-09 17:33:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're having a laugh surely? Photos on a floppy! Sweet...
Burn them to CD instead. But if you're intent on storing them on floppies then you have to resize them
use PIXresizer - it's free here
http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/PIXresizer/pixresizer.html
2007-02-08 07:48:15 · answer #7 · answered by zoomjet 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Floppy Disks are outdated now, just burn them on CDR'S. Besides, I have noticed pictures on floppy drives get corrupted with virus or something. You will loose it all if you try storing them on it.
2007-02-08 07:57:01 · answer #8 · answered by NchantingPrincess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
try to compress them by using winrar or winzip...
or change there resolution... to small
but in my opinian,floppy is to small to hold photos, use a cd for that
2007-02-08 07:52:34 · answer #9 · answered by abcd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi RAM...a floopy will only hold about 1.44 meg and some pics.are biggger than that...copy them to a C.D.
2007-02-09 10:30:05 · answer #10 · answered by telemotive 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋