Peeing on a log

Over the school holiday’s I took the kids camping at Lakes Entrance. A great time was had by all; fishing, 4WD, going down Buchan Caves, couple of vineyards etc. But like all good things, the holiday came to an end and I’m back at work.

Going through the backlog of emails received whilst I was away, I found a number of requests to hook up with people on Facebook [Link to www.facebook.com ]. Going through the bits and pieces, I found that many people (mostly singles) were posting all these photo’s of their travels and partying. Right-oh says me, I’ll post some of my pictures from the holidays. The four year old peeing on a log. That sort of thing.

Strangely enough though, everytime I tried to upload photo’s the Facebook website came up with an error. Thinking about it, I decided that maybe the images were just too big. They were all high res photo’s around 2 to 3 Mb each. The obvious solution is simply to reduce the size of the photo’s then have another go. The photo’s don’t need to be 600dpi for my screen. Yes I know my screen is measured in pixels per inch, not dots per inch, but lets use the standard language. For standard Windows resolution, most objects are portrayed at 96dpi. Therefore my pictures are about six times too large.

The easy solution is to open up the images in Photoshop and drop down the resolution. Oops. I’m at home not work and I don’t have Photoshop on my home computer. In fact I don’t have a copy of anything that can do this.

A quick search of the internet found a lovely free product for me called PIXresizer [pls link to http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm ] This product has all the attributes I like in software.
1. Small
2. Effective
3. Simple
4. Free

In fact it was easier than doing the job in Photoshop, as I could select a whole lot of images in a directory and reduce them down in size as a batch. I reduced ten pictures down to 400 x 300 and uploaded them in seconds to Facebook. The Pixresizer software only works on Windows, but I’d have to say it was a great solution.

The question remains of course, why would I spend work time uploading holiday photo’s to Facebook? The answer to that is a different story.

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