Tearing my hair out . . . giant graphic

[Mandi]

I have a client who had an image scanned and sent to me, for use on said client's site.[nbsp][nbsp]Image is enormous, both physical size and file size, and represents a change from the scary enormous file that email rejected several times (she says gratefully, LOL).[nbsp][nbsp]I suspect the person scanning is new to this, and hopefully I can lend a few pointers for the future.

However, for the time being I need to work with what I've got.[nbsp][nbsp]I'm a PSP user.[nbsp][nbsp]Everytime I try to copy the image for pasting into a new selection as a new (physical) size . . . my machine locks up.[nbsp][nbsp]It's like it can't handle the 1MB file on the clipboard, and just gets confused.[nbsp][nbsp]Would that be an accurate diagnosis?[nbsp][nbsp]Would I be more successful in moving the file to my machine that has a bit more RAM (albeit much slower processor, but I am patient.)

I tried compressing the image slightly, about 20%, which resulted in a 900K image that still could not be copied successfully.[nbsp][nbsp]I worry about compressing a .jpg too much, I hate that lossy look.

I'm tired of doing a hard reboot and getting the blue nag screen about shutting down Windows properly . . . . suggestions?

[Mandi]

Answered my own question . . . regular old "resize" function did the trick.[nbsp][nbsp]I usually avoid it, I don't like the way PSP resizes[nbsp][nbsp]. . . but at least I've got something I can work with now!

I'd still be interested to know if there's a limit on clipboard files?

[Jeff]

One thing to note is that when you open a 1 meg jpg, it is uncompressed into memory, becomming maybe 10+ megs depending on how compressed it was to start.[nbsp][nbsp]The clipboard would then get the larger uncompressed data when you copy.

However, you still should be able to copy and paste more than this without problems.[nbsp][nbsp]But I don't use PSP either (I've been with Corel since version 3).[nbsp][nbsp]But PC100 and PC133 DIMM's are very inexpensive now... get 256 megs and you'll see a big difference and never go back :)
[This message has been edited by Jeff (edited 01-18-01@10:08 pm)]

[0degree]

I am not sure if this is out of topic, but have you tried to change the image to index color mode and then reducing the number of colors?[nbsp][nbsp]Start off with 256 colors and go down through 128, 64, 32, 16 etc.[nbsp][nbsp]Each time you take away colors, check how much the image is being affected.[nbsp][nbsp]If the image still looks good, keep on reducing the number of colors.[nbsp][nbsp]You can also change the image's compatibility with web browsers (this is called "web snap", which is very effective in reducing size.)[nbsp][nbsp]The more the image is compatible with web colors, the smaller it will be but you'll sacrifice the original colors.

I don't know if PSP can do this but Photoshop 6 (with ImageReady) is perfect for such situations.[nbsp][nbsp]Furthermore, you can try "slicing" the image into smaller ones which also helps.

Tony.